CN110233742B

CN110233742B - Group establishing method, system, terminal and server

Info

Publication number: CN110233742B
Application number: CN201810182618.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王思佳; 郝晓敏
Original assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2018-03-06
Filing date: 2018-03-06
Publication date: 2022-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 2038-03-06
Also published as: CN110233742A

Abstract

The application provides a group establishment method, a group establishment system, a terminal and a server, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a dragging operation of dragging the first group to a second group position; merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation. By the scheme, the technical problems that the existing group merging needs one member to add, the group building efficiency is low, and mistakes are easily made are solved, and the technical effect of simple and efficient group building is achieved.

Description

Group establishing method, system, terminal and server

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of internet, and particularly relates to a group establishment method, a group establishment system, a group establishment terminal and a group establishment server.

Background

With the continuous development of internet technology and the continuous development of terminals such as mobile phones, people increasingly have the concept of groups through social software in the terminals such as mobile phones, or conference software for communication, or video conferences, even mails and the like.

When normal conversation or video conference operations are performed, users in several groups often need to be pulled into one group. In response to this requirement, the current processing method generally adds one member of several groups to a new group to form a large group in which the members of several groups are aggregated.

However, the above-mentioned way of establishing a group requires one addition, is relatively complex to operate, is easy to add more or less people, and is relatively inefficient to implement.

In view of the above problems, no effective solution has been proposed.

Disclosure of Invention

The application aims to provide a group establishing method, a system, a terminal and a server, which can realize the technical effect of simply and efficiently establishing a group.

The application provides a group establishment method, a system, a terminal and a server, which are realized as follows:

a group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring a dragging operation of dragging the first group to a second group position;

merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation.

A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring voice data;

identifying a group merging request from the voice data, wherein the group merging request comprises at least two groups;

merging at least two groups included in the group merging request into one group.

A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring a merging request for merging a plurality of target groups;

merging members of the plurality of target groups into one group in response to the merge request.

A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring a merging trigger operation;

responding to the merging trigger operation, and generating a merging request, wherein the merging request carries group identifications of a plurality of target groups;

and sending the merging request to a server to trigger the server to merge the members in the target groups into one group.

A group establishment system, comprising: client, server, wherein:

the client is used for acquiring a dragging operation of dragging the first group to a second group position;

the server is used for combining the first group and the second group into one group in response to the dragging operation.

A server comprising a processor and a memory for storing processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor implement:

acquiring voice data;

acquiring a merging request for merging a plurality of target groups;

A terminal comprising a processor and a memory for storing processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor implement:

acquiring a merging trigger operation;

A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed, implement the steps of the above-described method.

The group establishing method, the group establishing system, the terminal and the server can realize the combination of a plurality of groups through dragging operation, thereby solving the technical problems of low group establishing efficiency and easy error caused by the fact that one member is required to add in the existing group combination, and achieving the technical effect of simple and efficient group establishment.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments described in the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without any creative effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a group establishment system provided herein;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of group information provided herein;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating group merging by dragging according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of group merging implemented by voice according to the present application;

FIG. 5 is a method flow diagram of a group establishment method provided herein;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a group creation interface provided herein;

FIG. 7 is another schematic diagram of a group creation interface provided herein;

FIG. 8 is a further illustration of the group creation interface provided herein;

FIG. 9 is yet another schematic diagram of a group creation interface provided herein;

FIG. 10 is a flow chart of another method of the group establishment method provided herein;

FIG. 11 is a diagram of the hardware architecture of a terminal/server provided herein;

fig. 12 is a block diagram of a group establishing apparatus provided in the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

In order to solve the problem of the existing group establishment method that in order to add members in a plurality of groups to one group, the members need to be added one by one, which is inefficient to implement, in this example, a group establishment system is provided, as shown in fig. 1, the group establishment system may include: server 101, terminal 102.

The terminal 102 may receive a request triggered by a user to merge a group, and transmit the request to the server 101, and the server 101 may directly merge group members in two or more groups, and may push the merged group to the terminal 102 for display.

In an embodiment, the server 101 may be a single server, a server cluster, a cloud server, or the like, and which method is specifically adopted may be selected according to actual needs, which is not limited in the present application.

For the server 101, information required for group merging, such as the identification of each group in the original group, which members are in each group, and the identification of each member, etc., may be stored locally in the server or in an external storage device, and based on the information, the original group may directly perform group merging in response to the group merging request. Of course, the above information includes, for example: the group identifier, the group member identifier, etc. may also be stored on the terminal side, and carried by the requesting terminal in the merge request to be transmitted to the server 101. Of course, the server 101 may call a predetermined storage location after receiving the merge request. Specifically, which way to store the information required for group merging is adopted, which can be selected according to actual needs, and this is not limited in the present application.

The terminal 102 may be a terminal device or software used by a client. Specifically, the terminal may be a terminal device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a smart watch, or other wearable devices. Of course, the terminal may also be software that can run in the above-described terminal device. For example: and application software such as nails, mailboxes, conference software or browsers.

In one embodiment, it is considered that if the rights identification of the group merge is opened for all people, confusion may result, and there may be a risk of malicious group merging. For this reason, it is considered that the right may be set for group merging, for example, only for an administrator of several target groups or a group owner of several target groups at the same time, the group merging may be triggered.

The operation of the authority judgment can be executed on the terminal side or the server side, and specifically, the side on which the authority judgment is placed can be selected according to actual needs, which is not limited in the present application.

In order to further improve the intelligence of group merging, for the server 101, after two or more groups are merged, a request for inquiring whether to approve merging is set for group members, only the group members agreeing to merging are added to a new group, and the group members not agreeing to merging are not added to the new group, and the server 101 may transmit a message whether to approve adding to the group members to the terminal initiating the group merging request, so as to inform the terminal initiating the merging request which group members already agree and successfully join the new group, and which group members do not agree to join the new group.

In one embodiment, after completing the group merging, the server 101 may push the establishment information of the new group to the terminal initiating the group merging, or push the group information to the terminals of all group members in the new group. Specifically, the group information may include: the group members in the group identify, e.g., the names of all group members, etc., to tell the members within the group which members the new group has.

By the group establishing method, one person can also join a group, so that more members in the group are provided. Or all members in a multi-person group are added into another group to form a large group. Or two or more groups may be combined directly to form one large group.

In one embodiment, in the process of merging the members in multiple target groups into one group by the server 101 in response to the merge request, the group members may be subjected to deduplication processing, mainly considering that sometimes there are coincident group members in two groups to be merged. For example, there are members in group a: zhang III, there are also members in group B: and (5) opening the leaf. In the case where group a and group B need to be merged, if straight joining is not done with deduplication, then two "three shots" will appear in the new group. Through deduplication, one can be deleted so that the members in the group are nonrepeating.

However, it should be noted that the above distinction of "zhang san" as whether to repeat or not is only a schematic description, and considering that different people may use the same name, when performing deduplication processing, in the case that the name can be repeated, the deduplication processing is performed through the unique description of the user, so as to ensure that no repeated group members appear in the new group. Specifically, which identification information is used for deduplication processing may be selected according to actual needs, which is not limited in the present application. That is, the members in a plurality of target groups may be subjected to deduplication processing, and the members obtained after deduplication processing may be merged into one group.

The server 101 may identify the member identifiers of the members in the group through the group identifier, specifically, the terminal 102 may obtain a merge trigger operation, and generate a merge request in response to the merge trigger operation, where the merge request may carry the group identifiers of a plurality of target groups; the terminal 102 may then send the merge request to the server. The server 101 responds to the merging request, and acquires a group identifier of each target group in the plurality of target groups; acquiring member identifications in each target group according to the group identifications of each target group; and merging the acquired member identifications into a group.

The merge request may be generated by, but is not limited to, one of the following triggers: clicking a merge option in a menu, a drag operation between pairs of groups, voice input, etc., to trigger generation of a merge request.

In this example, the group establishment method may be applied to social software, conference software, group sending grouping of mailboxes, or other software applications that may relate to a group concept, which is not specifically limited in this application, and other applications designed to a group concept may all be applied to the group establishment method provided in this example.

The group establishment method is described in the following with two specific examples, however, it should be noted that these two specific examples are only for better explaining the present application and do not constitute a limitation to the present application.

Example 1 (group merging by dragging)

As shown in fig. 2, the group diagram is a schematic diagram of a group that a user joins, and the user wishes to merge the group a and the group C. In this example, a way of group merging by a drag operation is provided.

Specifically, a drag operation for dragging a first group (for example, group A) to a second group (group C) can be obtained; in response to the drag operation, the first group and the second group may be merged into one group, thereby obtaining a new group X.

As shown in fig. 3, a user drags on the touch screen by a finger to trigger group merging, and in actual implementation, the group merging may be triggered by other methods, for example, when operating through a computer, a mouse or the like external to the computer is dragged.

However, it should be noted that the specific manner of the dragging operation listed above is only an exemplary description, and when the dragging operation is actually implemented, other manners may also be adopted to drag to trigger the group merging, which may be selected according to actual needs, and this is not limited in this application.

Example 2 (group merging by way of Voice input)

As shown in fig. 4, the group merging may be triggered by voice. For example, a user may speak to a device, viewing a group list, that: please merge group a, group B and group C. After receiving the voice data, the device can identify the group which the user wishes to merge from the voice data, and then trigger the group merging operation.

For example, in fig. 4, it can be recognized from the voice data that: group A, group C. That is, it is determined that it is desirable to merge group a and group C, thereby triggering group merging.

In an embodiment, after the groups are merged to form a new group, the original group may be retained, or the original group may be deleted, and which method is specifically adopted may be selected according to actual needs, which is not limited in the present application.

The following description is made with reference to a specific embodiment, in this example, the user a triggers the group merging as an example, however, it should be noted that this specific example is only for better explaining the present application, and does not constitute a limitation to the present application.

As shown in fig. 5, the following steps may be included:

s1: the user selects the group desired to be merged, specifically, but not limited to, selecting the group desired to be merged by one of the following methods: the calling editing picture can be pressed at the mobile terminal, and the ctrl key can be pressed at the PC terminal and continuously clicked by using a mouse.

S2: as shown in fig. 6 and fig. 7, the user triggers the merge operation to pop up the new group dialog box, which may be specifically, but not limited to, triggered by one of the following manners: the merging operation can be triggered by a menu suspended at the top or the bottom of the screen at the mobile terminal, a menu called out by right-clicking at the PC terminal, or dragging 1 group of the menus to another group.

S3: as shown in fig. 8 and 9, after receiving the merge instruction, the terminal may send the group identifier and the individual identifier of the group to be merged to the server, and the server parses the corresponding group member according to the group identifier, performs deduplication processing, and after deduplication processing, returns the group member to the terminal and displays the group member in the dialog box.

S4: if the user needs to add other members, the user can select an individual or a group in the terminal in a searching mode to add the group members, and the server side automatically performs duplicate removal processing on the group members;

s5: after the member addition is completed, the user may click on the determination or the like to trigger the generation of a new group.

The group is established in the mode, so that the fast and efficient group establishment can be realized, and the problems that the operation is too complicated, the efficiency is low and the error is easy to occur due to the fact that the group needs to be added by one member in the prior art are solved.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a method of one embodiment of a group establishment method described herein. Although the present application provides method operational steps or apparatus configurations as illustrated in the following examples or figures, more or fewer operational steps or modular units may be included in the methods or apparatus based on conventional or non-inventive efforts. In the case of steps or structures which do not logically have the necessary cause and effect relationship, the execution sequence of the steps or the module structure of the apparatus is not limited to the execution sequence or the module structure described in the embodiments and shown in the drawings of the present application. When the described method or module structure is applied in an actual device or end product, the method or module structure according to the embodiments or shown in the drawings can be executed sequentially or executed in parallel (for example, in a parallel processor or multi-thread processing environment, or even in a distributed processing environment).

As shown in fig. 10, the group establishing method may include:

s1001: acquiring a merging trigger operation;

wherein, the merge trigger operation may include but is not limited to: clicking a merging option in a menu, dragging between groups, and inputting voice.

S1002: responding to the merging trigger operation, and generating a merging request, wherein the merging request carries group identifications of a plurality of target groups;

specifically, it may be obtained whether a user initiating the merge trigger operation has a merge right, and a merge request is generated under the condition that it is determined that the user has the merge right; in the case that it is determined that the merging right is not available, a warning message of merging failure may be generated.

S1003: sending the merging request to a server;

s1004: the server acquires a merging request for merging a plurality of target groups;

s1005: merging members of the plurality of target groups into one group in response to the merge request.

In response to the merge request, the step 1005 may merge the members of the target groups into one group, and may include: carrying out duplicate removal processing on members in a plurality of target groups; and combining the members obtained after the deduplication processing into a group.

Specifically, the merging may be performed based on the group identifier and the member identifier, and specifically, the server may obtain the group identifier of each of the plurality of target groups, then obtain the member identifier of each of the target groups according to the group identifier of each of the target groups, and merge the obtained member identifiers into one group.

For the terminal, the combined member list in one group returned by the server can be received, and the member list is displayed in one group.

The group establishment method provided by the embodiment of the application can be executed in a mobile terminal, a server side or a similar operation device. Taking the example of the operation on the computer terminal and the server side, fig. 11 is a block diagram of the hardware structure of the terminal or the server of the group establishment method according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 11, the terminal or server may include one or more (only one shown) processors 102 (the processors 102 may include, but are not limited to, a processing device such as a microprocessor MCU or a programmable logic device FPGA), a memory 104 for storing data, and a transmission module 106 for communication functions. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the structure shown in fig. 11 is only an illustration and is not intended to limit the structure of the electronic device. For example, the terminal or server 10 may also include more or fewer components than shown in FIG. 11, or have a different configuration than shown in FIG. 11.

The memory 104 may be used to store software programs and modules of application software, such as program instructions/modules corresponding to the group establishment method in the embodiment of the present invention, and the processor 102 executes various functional applications and data processing by running the software programs and modules stored in the memory 104, that is, implements the group establishment method of the application program. The memory 104 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic storage devices, flash memory, or other non-volatile solid-state memory. In some examples, the memory 104 may further include memory located remotely from the processor 102, which may be connected to the computer terminal 10 via a network. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

The transmission module 106 is used to receive or transmit data via a network. Specific examples of the network described above may include a wireless network provided by a communication provider of the computer terminal 10. In one example, the transmission module 106 includes a Network adapter (NIC) that can be connected to other Network devices through a base station to communicate with the internet. In one example, the transmission module 106 may be a Radio Frequency (RF) module, which is used for communicating with the internet in a wireless manner.

Referring to fig. 12, in a software implementation, the group establishing apparatus located in the terminal may include: a first obtaining module 1201, a generating module 1202 and a sending module 1203. The group establishing means located in the server may comprise: a second obtaining module 1204 and a merging module 1205. Wherein:

a first obtaining module 1201, configured to obtain a merge trigger operation;

a generating module 1202, configured to generate a merging request in response to the merging trigger operation, where the merging request carries group identifiers of multiple target groups;

a sending module 1203, configured to send the merge request to a server, so as to trigger the server to merge members in the multiple target groups into one group.

A second obtaining module 1204, configured to obtain a merge request for merging multiple target groups;

a merging module 1205, configured to merge members of the target groups into a group in response to the merging request.

In an embodiment, the merging module 1205 may specifically perform deduplication processing on members in the multiple target groups; and combining the members obtained after the deduplication processing into a group.

In one embodiment, the terminal may further include: the receiving module is used for receiving a combined member list in one group returned by the server after the combination request is sent to the server to trigger the server to combine the members in the target groups into one group; a display module for displaying the member list in a group.

According to the group establishing method, the system, the terminal and the server, the technical problems that the existing group combination is low in group establishing efficiency and easy to make mistakes when one member is required to be added are solved by directly combining the group members in a plurality of target groups to generate a new group, and the technical effect of simple and efficient group establishment is achieved.

Although the present application provides method steps as described in an embodiment or flowchart, additional or fewer steps may be included based on conventional or non-inventive efforts. The order of steps recited in the embodiments is merely one manner of performing the steps in a multitude of orders and does not represent the only order of execution. When an actual apparatus or client product executes, it may execute sequentially or in parallel (e.g., in the context of parallel processors or multi-threaded processing) according to the embodiments or methods shown in the figures.

The apparatuses or modules illustrated in the above embodiments may be implemented by a computer chip or an entity, or by a product with certain functions. For convenience of description, the above devices are described as being divided into various modules by functions, and are described separately. The functionality of the modules may be implemented in the same one or more software and/or hardware implementations of the present application. Of course, a module that implements a certain function may be implemented by a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units in combination.

The methods, apparatus or modules described herein may be implemented in computer readable program code to a controller implemented in any suitable manner, for example, the controller may take the form of, for example, a microprocessor or processor and a computer readable medium storing computer readable program code (e.g., software or firmware) executable by the (micro) processor, logic gates, switches, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), programmable logic controllers and embedded microcontrollers, examples of which include, but are not limited to, the following microcontrollers: ARC 625D, Atmel AT91SAM, Microchip PIC18F26K20, and Silicone Labs C8051F320, the memory controller may also be implemented as part of the control logic for the memory. Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that, in addition to implementing the controller as pure computer readable program code, the same functionality can be implemented by logically programming method steps such that the controller is in the form of logic gates, switches, application specific integrated circuits, programmable logic controllers, embedded microcontrollers and the like. Such a controller may therefore be considered as a hardware component, and the means included therein for performing the various functions may also be considered as a structure within the hardware component. Or even means for performing the functions may be regarded as being both a software module for performing the method and a structure within a hardware component.

Some of the modules in the apparatus described herein may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, classes, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The application may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.

From the above description of the embodiments, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the present application can be implemented by software plus necessary hardware. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied in the form of software products or in the implementation process of data migration, which essentially or partially contributes to the prior art. The computer software product may be stored in a storage medium such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk, etc., and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, mobile terminal, server, or network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in the various embodiments or portions of the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and the same or similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. All or portions of the present application are operational with numerous general purpose or special purpose computing system environments or configurations. For example: personal computers, server computers, hand-held or portable devices, tablet-type devices, mobile communication terminals, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, programmable electronic devices, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices, and the like.

While the present application has been described with examples, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that there are numerous variations and permutations of the present application without departing from the spirit of the application, and it is intended that the appended claims encompass such variations and permutations without departing from the spirit of the application.

Claims

1. A group establishment method, the method comprising:

merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation;

wherein merging the first group and the second group into one group comprises: sending a request for inquiring whether the group members agree to the group members, and merging the group members agreeing to the merging into a group;

wherein merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation comprises: acquiring whether a user initiating the dragging operation has merging permission or not; and merging the information under the condition that the merging authority is determined to be possessed, and generating a reminding message of failed merging under the condition that the merging authority is determined not to be possessed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining a drag operation for dragging a first group to a second group position comprises:

the method comprises the steps that a dragging operation of dragging a first group to a second group position is obtained through induction through a sensor in a touch screen on the mobile equipment;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and receiving a dragging operation of dragging the first group to a second group position triggered by a mouse by a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first group comprises a plurality of groups.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation comprises:

performing deduplication processing on members in the first group and the second group;

and combining the members obtained after the deduplication processing into a group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein merging the first group and the second group into one group in response to the drag operation comprises:

acquiring group identifications of the first group and the second group;

acquiring member identifications in the first group and the second group according to the group identifications of the first group and the second group;

and merging the acquired member identifications into a group.

6. A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring voice data;

merging at least two groups included in the group merging request into one group;

wherein merging at least two groups included in the group merging request into one group includes: sending a request for inquiring whether the group members agree to the group members, and merging the group members agreeing to the merging into a group;

when the merging request is generated, acquiring whether a user triggering generation of the merging request has merging permission; and generating a merging request under the condition that the merging authority is determined to be possessed, and generating a reminding message of merging failure under the condition that the merging authority is determined not to be possessed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein identifying a group merge request from the voice data comprises:

determining whether the voice data carries instruction information for requesting to merge;

identifying a group identification of a group requesting merging from the voice data in the case where it is determined that there is instruction information requesting merging;

and generating a group merging request by the acquired group identification.

8. A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring a merging request for merging a plurality of target groups;

merging members of the plurality of target groups into one group in response to the merge request;

wherein merging members of the plurality of target groups into one group comprises: sending a request for inquiring whether the group members agree to the group members, and merging the group members agreeing to the merging into a group;

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the merge request comprises at least one of: a request generated by clicking a merge option in a menu, a request generated by a drag operation between groups, and a merge request of voice input.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the target group includes one or more members.

11. A group establishment method, the method comprising:

acquiring a merging trigger operation;

sending the merging request to a server to trigger the server to merge members in the target groups into one group;

wherein generating a merge request in response to the merge trigger operation comprises: acquiring whether a user initiating the merging trigger operation has merging permission or not; and generating a merging request under the condition that the merging authority is determined to be possessed, and generating a reminding message of merging failure under the condition that the merging authority is determined not to be possessed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein after sending the merge request to a server to trigger the server to merge members of the plurality of target groups into one group, the method further comprises:

receiving a combined member list in a group returned by the server;

displaying the member list in a group.

13. A group establishment system, comprising: client, server, wherein:

the server is used for responding to the dragging operation and combining the first group and the second group into one group;

14. A server comprising a processor and a memory for storing processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor implement:

acquiring voice data;

15. A server comprising a processor and a memory for storing processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor implement:

acquiring a merging request for merging a plurality of target groups;

16. The server according to claim 15, wherein merging members of the plurality of target groups into a group in response to the merge request comprises:

performing deduplication processing on members in the plurality of target groups;

17. A terminal comprising a processor and a memory for storing processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor implement:

acquiring a merging trigger operation;

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein after sending the merge request to the server to trigger the server to merge the members of the target groups into one group, further comprising:

receiving a combined member list in a group returned by the server;

displaying the member list in a group.

19. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed, implement the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.

20. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed, implement the steps of the method of any one of claims 11 to 12.