Patent ID: 11870742
Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for exchanging information, comprising:
receiving, from a sharing party, a sharing request for sharing a target mail; and
creating, in response to the sharing request, an instant messaging IM group comprising the sharing party and a shared party at an IM end, displaying a discussion interface corresponding to the IM group at a mail end, and sharing the target mail with the shared party, to enable information exchange between the sharing party and the shared party in the IM group and/or in the discussion interface based on the target mail,
wherein after creating the IM group comprising the sharing party and the shared party at the IM end and displaying the discussion interface corresponding to the IM group at the mail end, the method further comprises:
acquiring a message indicating update of a state of the IM group, and
updating, in response to the message indicating update of the state of the IM group, a display state of the discussion interface, to synchronize the display state of the discussion interface with the state of the IM group.