Patent ID: 8176147
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing media contents in a uniform storage, comprising: storing the media contents and media content metadata corresponding to the media contents at a messaging system network side; receiving, by the messaging system network side, a query condition with the media content metadata from a user client; searching the media contents which satisfy the query condition based on the stored media content metadata; returning abstract information of the searched media contents to the user client, wherein the abstract information of the searched media contents comprises a message identifier, a message sequence number and a conversation identifier of the media contents; generating, by the user client, a sequence number of other history messages belonging to the conversation identifier based on the message identifier, the sequence number and the conversation identifier in the abstract information; sending a request for obtaining the other history messages including the generated sequence number of the other history messages, to the messaging system network side; and sending, the messaging system network side, the media contents corresponding to the sequence number of the other history messages, to the user client based on the request.