Abstract: A customization technique that provides a customized user interface in software to a user based on user behaviors while using the user interface during one or more sessions is described. In this customization technique, a usage pattern of the user is determined from the user behaviors, and a user-specific customization of the user interface is generated based on the determined usage pattern. Note that determining the usage pattern may involve generating a directed graph in which vertices correspond to visual components in the user interface and edges between vertices correspond to user behaviors. Then, the user interface in a current release of the software is customized based on the user-specific customization. For example, the customized user interface may include: only a subset of the visual components; a different order of the visual components; and/or a visual component associated with a set of operations.

Abstract: A method for performing an invitation triggered search by a query engine, involving receiving an invitation message associated with a project, wherein the query engine is a recipient of the invitation message, extracting at least one attribute from the invitation message, searching a plurality of sources to identify a plurality of resources associated with the at least one attribute, and sending a reply message including a display of the plurality of resources associated with the at least one attribute to a sender of the invitation message.