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Messenger client and method for updating messages in messenger client

  • US 9,009,245 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2013
  • Issued: 04/14/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for updating messages in a messenger client, comprising:

  • judging, by a messenger client, whether the messenger client is to pull a new message or a new message notification from a messenger server according to a state of the messenger client;

    deciding, by the messenger client, not to pull a new message notification or a new message in response to a determination that the state of the messenger client indicates a first user interface of the messenger client is invisible;

    pulling, by the messenger client, a new message notification which indicates a total number of new messages from the messenger server in response to a determination that the state of the messenger client indicates the first user interface is visible but a second user interface for displaying messages is invisible; and

    pulling, by the messenger client, the new messages from the messenger server in response to a determination that the state of the messenger client indicates both the first user interface and the second user interface are visible; and

    prompting, by the messenger client, a user that there is a new message when the total number in the new message notification pulled is larger than 0 after pulling the new message notification from the messenger server.

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