Method and apparatus for instant messaging

摘要

This invention relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for instant messaging, the method comprising: receiving more than one user message from one or more instant messaging applications; defining a user message structure based on the creation time of each message; displaying the messages in the defined structure including order and hierarchical level; determining a user selection of a first message and second message wherein the second message does not follow directly after the first message in the message structure; changing the message structure so that the second message follows directly after the first message and is moved to a selected hierarchical level relative to the first message; and redisplaying the messages in the changed message structure.