MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

In an embodiment of the present invention, a timeline list and an unread message list are set in a message server for each user, the timeline list including identifiers of all messages of the user, and the unread message list including identifiers of all unread messages of the user; and the message server adds, when a message publisher publishes a new message, an identifier of the new message separately to a timeline list and an unread message list of a user corresponding to the message publisher, identifiers of messages in the timeline list and identifiers of messages in the unread message list being both ranked in a reverse chronological order of generation times of the messages.

主权项

1. A message processing method, a timeline list and an unread message list being set in a message server for each user, the timeline list comprising identifiers of all messages of the user, and the unread message list comprising identifiers of all unread messages of the user, the method comprising:
adding, by the message server when a message publisher publishes a new message, an identifier of the new message separately to a timeline list and an unread message list of a user corresponding to the message publisher, identifiers of messages in the timeline list and identifiers of messages in the unread message list being both ranked in a reverse chronological order of generation times of the messages; wherein an identifier of a message in the unread message list is stored according to a category of the message, and identifiers of messages in different categories are stored in sublists of the categories, wherein the message is categorized according to a message publisher category, a message content category, or a combination of the message publisher category and the message content category; and the adding, by the message server, an identifier of the new message to an unread message list of a user corresponding to the message publisher comprises: adding, according to a category of the message, the identifier of the message to a sublist of the corresponding category.