Patent ID: 8924491

Claim:
A method for tracking message topics in an interactive messaging environment, wherein the interactive messaging environment contains a plurality of messages, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; determining a predetermined topic field of topics to be tracked; for each of a plurality of users: acquiring topic preferences of the user by analyzing interactive operations of the user in the interactive messaging environment; comparing the acquired topic preferences of the user with the determined predetermined topic field; and identifying the user as an interactive operation user associated with the selected message if the topic preferences of the user match the predetermined topic field: identifying, from messages corresponding to each of one or more identified interactive operation users, messages having replying or forwarding relations with the selected message, as context messages associated with the selected message; extracting one or more context topic keywords from the identified context messages; generating one or more topic keywords by processing the extracted context topic keywords; and grouping the selected message into one or more topic groups corresponding to the generated one or more topic keywords respectively, wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computer device.