Method and system for displaying micro-blog message, micro-blog terminal, and server, and storage medium

• US 8,935,618 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2012
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zhang, Li, Li, Jingjing, Wang, Heng
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOWDHURY, RAYEEZ R
• Application Number:
  US14/115,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a method for displaying micro-blog messages, which includes: when the users look up the list roster, the micro-blog terminal sends an obtaining request to the micro-blog server, receives and display the list roster fed back by the micro-blog server; when any one of the micro-blog list is selected from the list roster, the micro-blog terminal writes a name of the chosen micro-blog list into a new displaying page, and sending a message list request to the micro-blog server; the micro-blog terminal receives the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page. It is disclosed a system for displaying micro-blog messages, a micro-blog terminal, server, and storage medium thereof.

Claims

1. A method for displaying micro-blog messages, comprising:

when detected a user'"'"'s lookup operation on a micro-blog list, a micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user sending an obtaining request to a micro-blog server for obtaining a list roster of the user;

the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server;

the list roster comprising at least one micro-blog list;

when any one of the micro-blog list is selected from the list roster, the micro-blog terminal writing a name of the chosen micro-blog list into a new displaying page, and sending a message list request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message list of the chosen micro-blog list; and

the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list,

wherein when detected the user'"'"'s lookup operation on the micro-blog list, the micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user sending an obtaining request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the list roster of the user comprises;

when detected the user'"'"'s lookup operation on the micro-blog list, the micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user packaging the user'"'"'s ID, and accordingly generating the obtaining request;

the micro-blog terminal sending the obtaining request to the micro-blog server, for obtaining the list roster of the user.

2. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 1, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending the obtaining request to the micro-blog server, and before the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server looking up micro-blog list IDs of the micro-blog lists that the user joins or creates from a database according to the user ID comprised in the obtaining request from the micro-blog terminal, and generating a micro-blog list ID roster accordingly, which micro-blog list ID roster comprises at least one micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server obtaining from a database general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID according to the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster; and

the micro-blog server feeding back to the micro-blog terminal the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID;

wherein

the general information of the micro-blog list comprises;

micro-blog list ID and its member ID list, name of the micro-blog list, brief introduction of the micro-blog list, type of the micro-blog list, and one or more of attributes of the micro-blog list.

3. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 2, wherein the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server comprises:

the micro-blog terminal receiving from the micro-blog server the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID;

the micro-blog terminal generating the user'"'"'s list roster which comprises at least one micro-blog list according to the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog list corresponding to each micro-blog list ID that are fed back from the micro-blog list server;

the micro-blog terminal displaying the user'"'"'s list roster in a displaying interface.

4. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 3, wherein the micro-blog terminal sending a message list request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message list of the chosen micro-blog list comprises:

the micro-blog terminal packaging the chosen micro-blog list IDs to generate a message list request; and

the micro-blog terminal sending the message list request to the micro-blog server for requesting to obtain the message list of the chosen micro-blog list.

5. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 4, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending a message list request to the micro-blog server, and before the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server looking up from a database the member ID list according to the chosen micro-blog list ID comprised in the message list request;

the micro-blog server obtaining the message indexing ID list of the members in the chosen micro-blog list according to the looked up member ID list of the chosen micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server iterating the message indexing ID list of the members of the chosen micro-blog list, ranking all the message indexing IDs in light of the timeline, to generate a messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server feeding back the messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list to the micro-blog terminal;

the micro-blog terminal packaging the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, to generate a message body obtaining request to be sent to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message body corresponding to the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list; and

the micro-blog server drawing the message bodies corresponding to the message indexing IDs in the messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list according to the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list contained in the message body obtaining request sent from the micro-blog terminal; and

feeding back the message bodies corresponding to the message indexing IDs in the message indexing ID list to the micro-blog terminal.

6. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 5, wherein the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list comprises:

the micro-blog terminal receiving the message indexing ID list and message bodies corresponding to each message indexing ID in the message indexing ID list that are fed back from the micro-blog server;

the micro-blog terminal generating a message list for the chosen micro-blog list according to the message indexing ID list and message bodies corresponding to each message indexing ID in the message indexing ID list; and

the micro-blog terminal displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list.

7. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 1, wherein after the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog terminal timely sending an unread lookup request to the micro-blog server, for looking up the unread messages of each micro-blog list comprised in the list roster;

which comprises;

the micro-blog terminal packaging the micro-blog list ID roster of the user'"'"'s micro-blog list roster, and generating an unread lookup request; and

the micro-blog terminal sending the unread lookup request to the micro-blog server for looking up the unread messages of each micro-blog list comprised in the list roster.

8. The method for displaying micro-blog messages according to claim 7, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending the unread lookup request to the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server determining whether the members of the micro-blog list corresponding to the micro-blog list ID have posted new messages between the last unread lookup request and the current unread lookup request, according to the micro-blog list ID roster contained in the unread lookup request;

if there finds the new posted messages, the micro-blog server setting an unread sign on the micro-blog list ID of which the user that posted the new message is the member, and a micro-blog list ID roster with unread signs are sent back to the micro-blog terminal; and

the micro-blog terminal iterating the ID lists with unread signs that are fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying in the user'"'"'s list roster the corresponding unread sign.

9. One or more non-transitory storage medium that comprising executable program, which program being used for executing a method for displaying micro-blog messages, wherein the method comprises:

when detected a user'"'"'s lookup operation on a micro-blog list, a micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user sending an obtaining request to a micro-blog server for obtaining a list roster of the user;

the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server;

the list roster comprising at least one micro-blog list;

when any one of the micro-blog list is selected from the list roster, the micro-blog terminal writing a name of the chosen micro-blog list into a new displaying page, and sending a message list request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message list of the chosen micro-blog list; and

the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list,

wherein when detected the user'"'"'s lookup operation on the micro-blog list, the micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user sending an obtaining request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the list roster of the user comprises;

when detected the user'"'"'s lookup operation on the micro-blog list, the micro-blog terminal corresponding to the user packaging the user'"'"'s ID, and accordingly generating the obtaining request; and

the micro-blog terminal sending the obtaining request to the micro-blog server, for obtaining the list roster of the user.

10. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 9, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending the obtaining request to the micro-blog server, and before the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server looking up micro-blog list IDs of the micro-blog lists that the user joins or creates from a database according to the user ID comprised in the obtaining request from the micro-blog terminal, and generating a micro-blog list ID roster accordingly, which micro-blog list ID roster comprises at least one micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server obtaining from a database the general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID according to the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster; and

the micro-blog server feeding back to the micro-blog terminal the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID;

wherein

the general information of the micro-blog list comprises;

micro-blog list ID and its member ID list, name of the micro-blog list, brief introduction of the micro-blog list, type of the micro-blog list, and one or more of the attributes of the micro-blog list.

11. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 10, wherein the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server comprises:

the micro-blog terminal receiving from the micro-blog server the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog lists corresponding to each micro-blog list ID;

the micro-blog terminal generating the user'"'"'s list roster which comprises at least one micro-blog list according to the user'"'"'s micro-blog list ID roster and the general information of the micro-blog list corresponding to each micro-blog list ID that are fed back from the micro-blog list server; and

the micro-blog terminal displaying the user'"'"'s list roster in a displaying interface.

12. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the micro-blog terminal sending a message list request to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message list of the chosen micro-blog list comprises:

the micro-blog terminal packaging the chosen micro-blog list IDs to generate a message list request; and

the micro-blog terminal sending the message list request to the micro-blog server for requesting to obtain the message list of the chosen micro-blog list.

13. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 12, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending a message list request to the micro-blog server, and before the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server looking up from a database the member ID list according to the chosen micro-blog list ID comprised in the message list request;

the micro-blog server obtaining the message indexing ID list of the members in the chosen micro-blog list according to the looked up member ID list of the chosen micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server iterating the message indexing ID list of the members of the chosen micro-blog list, ranking all the message indexing IDs in light of the timeline, to generate a messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list;

the micro-blog server feeding back the messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list to the micro-blog terminal;

the micro-blog terminal packaging the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, to generate a message body obtaining request to be sent to the micro-blog server for obtaining the message body corresponding to the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list; and

the micro-blog server drawing the message bodies corresponding to the message indexing IDs in the messaging indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list according to the message indexing ID list of the chosen micro-blog list contained in the message body obtaining request sent from the micro-blog terminal; and

feeding back the message bodies corresponding to the message indexing IDs in the message indexing ID list to the micro-blog terminal.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the micro-blog terminal receiving the message list of the chosen micro-blog list that is fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list comprises:

the micro-blog terminal receiving the message indexing ID list and message bodies corresponding to each message indexing ID in the message indexing ID list that are fed back from the micro-blog server;

the micro-blog terminal generating a message list for the chosen micro-blog list according to the message indexing ID list and message bodies corresponding to each message indexing ID in the message indexing ID list; and

the micro-blog terminal displaying the message list of the chosen micro-blog list on the new message displaying page with the name of the chosen micro-blog list.

15. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 9, wherein after the micro-blog terminal receiving and displaying the list roster of the user that is fed back by the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog terminal timely sending an unread lookup request to the micro-blog server, for looking up the unread messages of each micro-blog list comprised in the list roster;

which comprises;

the micro-blog terminal packaging the micro-blog list ID roster of the user'"'"'s micro-blog list roster, and generating an unread lookup request; and

the micro-blog terminal sending the unread lookup request to the micro-blog server for looking up the unread messages of each micro-blog list comprised in the list roster.

16. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 15, wherein after the micro-blog terminal sending the unread lookup request to the micro-blog server, further comprises:

the micro-blog server determining whether the members of the micro-blog list corresponding to the micro-blog list ID have posted new messages between the last unread lookup request and the current unread lookup request, according to the micro-blog list ID roster contained in the unread lookup request;

if there finds the new posted messages, the micro-blog server setting an unread sign on the micro-blog list ID of which the user that posted the new message is the member, and a micro-blog list ID roster with unread signs are sent back to the micro-blog terminal; and

the micro-blog terminal iterating the ID lists with unread signs that are fed back from the micro-blog server, and displaying in the user'"'"'s list roster the corresponding unread sign.