Patent ID: 9043406
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method in an instant messaging server device for managing user lists, the method comprising: identifying, by the instant messaging server device, a group of instant messaging addresses used most frequently by a user of an instant messaging client on the client device from a plurality of instant messaging addresses within a plurality of user-determined groups in a user list stored on the instant messaging server device; generating, by the instant messaging server device, a history group that is a subset of the plurality of instant messaging addresses within the plurality of user-determined groups in the user list stored on the instant messaging server device and includes only a predetermined number of instant messaging addresses based on a size of the display device in the client device so that the history group is entirely displayed within the display device at a same time; and displaying, by the instant messaging server device, the history group of instant messaging addresses at a top level above the plurality of user-determined groups in the user list visibly within a display device in the client device to eliminate user scrolling to find an instant messaging address within the history group of instant messaging addresses.