WO2016086752A1

WO2016086752A1 - User equipment location information sharing method and apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2016086752A1
Application number: PCT/CN2015/093919
Authority: WO
Inventors: 杨金舟
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-12-01
Filing date: 2015-11-05
Publication date: 2016-06-09
Also published as: CN105722022A

Abstract

Provided is a user equipment location information sharing method and apparatus, the method comprising: obtaining information on a serving cell the user equipment is currently located in (S102); searching for geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information on the serving cell (S104); sharing the geographical location information to the Internet (S106). The present invention solves the problem of being incapable of collecting location information of a user effectively, thus effectively reducing comprehensive cost for a mobile Internet service system to obtain location information of a user, facilitating the Internet service system to widely develop location based marketing or other services in a more convenient way.

Description

User equipment location information sharing method and device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for sharing user equipment location information.

Background technique

With the rapid development of mobile internet services, the current refined marketing services based on mobile internet are becoming more and more abundant, and the requirements for obtaining user information are becoming more and more sophisticated. The marketing based on user location information is a very important in refined marketing. As a component, access to user location information in an economical and viable manner is a requirement of the Internet business platform.

Currently, in the field of mobile internet, the Internet service system generally collects Global Position System (GPS) navigation on the user terminal by means of built-in application software (Application, abbreviated as APP) or page command. Information to collect user location information, there are some key issues with this approach:

1. The user terminal is required to have a GPS navigation module and turn on the GPS navigation function to obtain the location information of the user terminal;

2. The user location information needs to be obtained from the user terminal, and the authorization is not permanent. The user needs to confirm when running the user terminal to obtain the user location information.

3. Each Internet service platform needs to implement the user location information collection function independently, which is costly;

The above problems have raised the threshold for expanding business based on user location information in the field of mobile internet, and hindered the rapid development of refined marketing based on user location information in the mobile Internet field.

In view of the related art, the problem of the location information of the user cannot be effectively collected, and an effective solution has not been proposed.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for sharing location information of a user equipment, so as to at least solve the problem that the location information of the user cannot be effectively collected in the related art.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a user equipment location information sharing method is provided, including: acquiring information about a serving cell currently located by a user equipment; and searching for geographic location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information of the serving cell; The above geographic location information is shared to the Internet.

Optionally, before the location information corresponding to the serving cell is searched according to the information about the serving cell, the method includes: configuring a correspondence between the serving cell and the geographic location information of the serving cell.

Optionally, the information about the serving cell of the user equipment is obtained by: receiving the online message of the user equipment from the mobile core network, and parsing the information about the serving cell currently located by the user equipment from the online message.

Optionally, when the information about the serving cell of the user equipment is parsed from the online message, the method further includes: parsing the identifier information of the user equipment from the online message, and the serving cell of the user equipment information.

Optionally, the sharing of the geographical location information to the Internet includes: receiving the query request information of the Internet; and sharing the geographic location information to the Internet by triggering the query request information; and/or receiving the mobile core network. The text transfer protocol (Hypertext transfer transfer protocol, abbreviated as http) request information; the geographic location is carried in the http request information and shared to the Internet under the trigger of the http request information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a user equipment location information sharing apparatus is further provided, where the apparatus includes: an obtaining module configured to acquire information of a serving cell currently located by the user equipment; and a searching module configured to be according to the foregoing The information of the serving cell searches for geographical location information corresponding to the foregoing serving cell; and the sharing module is configured to share the geographical location information to the Internet.

Optionally, the foregoing apparatus further includes: a configuration module, configured to configure a correspondence between the serving cell and the geographic location information of the serving cell.

Optionally, the obtaining module includes: a receiving unit, configured to receive an online message of the user equipment from the mobile core network; and a parsing unit configured to parse information of the serving cell currently located by the user equipment from the online message.

Optionally, the parsing unit is further configured to parse the identifier information of the user equipment and the information about the serving cell currently located by the user equipment from the online message.

Optionally, the sharing module includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive the query request information of the Internet; and a second sharing unit configured to share the geographical location information to the foregoing, triggered by the query request information The Internet; and/or the second receiving unit is configured to receive the hypertext transfer protocol http request information of the mobile core network; the second sharing unit is configured to carry the geographical location on the triggering of the http request information The http request information is shared to the above Internet.

The information about the serving cell currently located in the user equipment is obtained by using the information about the serving cell, and the geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell is searched according to the information of the serving cell; and the geographical location information is shared to the Internet. The invention solves the problem that the location information of the user cannot be effectively collected in the related art, thereby effectively reducing the comprehensive cost of acquiring the location information of the mobile internet service system, and facilitating the extensive development of the location-based marketing or other services by the Internet service system.

DRAWINGS

The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are intended to be a part of the invention. In the drawing:

1 is a flowchart of a method for sharing location information of a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a structural block diagram of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a structural block diagram 1 of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a structural block diagram 2 of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a structural block diagram 3 of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a schematic diagram of a location of a mobile subscriber location information capability open system in a mobile internet according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile user location information capability open system module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a mobile user location information collection and save process according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a mobile user location information capability opening process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

In this embodiment, a user equipment location information sharing method is provided. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a user equipment location information sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the process includes the following steps:

Step S102: Acquire information about a serving cell where the user equipment is currently located.

Step S104: Search for geographic location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information of the serving cell.

In step S106, the geographical location information is shared to the Internet.

Through the foregoing steps, the geographic location information corresponding to the serving cell can be found according to the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located, so that the approximate location of the user equipment can be located, and the user equipment is required to have a GPS navigation function, and The authorization of the user equipment is required. The above steps solve the problem that the location information of the user cannot be effectively collected in the related art, thereby effectively reducing the comprehensive cost of acquiring the location information of the mobile Internet service system, and facilitating the extensive implementation of the Internet service system. Location of marketing or other business.

In an optional embodiment, before the location information corresponding to the serving cell is searched according to the information of the serving cell, the correspondence between the geographic location information of the serving cell and the serving cell is configured. Therefore, after acquiring the information about the serving cell of the user equipment, the corresponding geographic location information may be found according to the corresponding relationship between the configured serving cell and the geographical location information of the serving cell.

The foregoing step S102 involves obtaining information about the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located. In an optional embodiment, the online message of the user equipment is received from the mobile core network, and the information about the serving cell currently located by the user equipment is parsed from the online message.

In an optional embodiment, the online message of the user equipment is received from the mobile core network, and the identifier information of the user equipment is also parsed from the online message, so that the identifier information of the user equipment and the current serving cell of the user equipment are obtained. Information.

The foregoing step S106 involves sharing the geographical location information to the Internet. In an optional embodiment, the geographic location information may be shared to the Internet by triggering the query request information by receiving the query request information of the Internet. In another optional embodiment, by receiving the http request information of the mobile core network, the geographic location is carried in the http request information and shared to the Internet under the trigger of the http request information.

In this embodiment, a user equipment location information sharing device is also provided, which is used to implement the foregoing embodiments and preferred embodiments, and details are not described herein. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the apparatus described in the following embodiments is preferably implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated.

2 is a structural block diagram of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the apparatus includes: an obtaining module 22 configured to acquire information of a serving cell currently located by a user equipment; and a searching module 24, It is arranged to find geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information of the serving cell; the sharing module 26 is arranged to share the geographical location information to the Internet.

3 is a structural block diagram of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the apparatus includes, in addition to all the modules shown in FIG. 2, a configuration module 32, which is configured to be configured. Correspondence between the serving cell and the geographical location information of the serving cell.

4 is a block diagram of a structure of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the obtaining module 22 includes: a receiving unit 222, configured to receive an online message of a user equipment from a mobile core network; The unit 224 is configured to parse the information of the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located from the online message.

Optionally, the parsing unit 224 is further configured to parse the identification information of the user equipment from the online message, and the information of the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located.

5 is a structural block diagram 3 of a user equipment location information sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the sharing module 26 includes: a first receiving unit 262, configured to receive query request information of the Internet; The unit 264 is configured to share the geographic location information to the Internet under the trigger of the query request information; and/or the second receiving unit 266 is configured to receive the http request information of the mobile core network; the second sharing unit 268 is It is set to carry the geographic location in the http request information and share it to the Internet under the trigger of the http request information.

It should be noted that each of the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, the foregoing may be implemented by, but not limited to, the foregoing modules are all located in the same processor; or, the above modules are respectively located. In the first processor, the second processor, and the third processor.

For the above technical problems existing in the related art, the following description will be made in conjunction with the optional embodiments, which are combined with the above embodiments and their optional embodiments.

The optional embodiment adopts a method different from the traditional method of relying on the characteristics of the user terminal navigation device to collect the user location information and save it locally, and then can provide the open user location information to multiple external Internet service systems.

The mobile user location information collection and capability opening system and method of this alternative embodiment includes:

The operation and maintenance configuration module (corresponding to the above configuration module 32): provides an operation and maintenance configuration interface, and can maintain correspondence information between the mobile network cell and the geographical coordinate latitude and longitude and save the information in the data storage subsystem of the system;

a location information collection module (corresponding to the obtaining module 22): receiving a user online message and a user location update message sent by the mobile core network, and parsing the user ID and the current mobile cell location information of the user, and forwarding the location information to the location information storage module;

a location information saving module (corresponding to the above-mentioned finding module 24): configuring data according to the correspondence relationship between the mobile cell and the geographic coordinate latitude and longitude, converting the user mobile cell location information acquired from the mobile core network into latitude and longitude information of the geographic coordinates, and saving with the user ID To the data storage subsystem of the system;

Data storage subsystem: providing data storage capability, mainly storing cell geographic coordinate latitude and longitude configuration data and collected user ID and location information data;

The location information open application programming interface (API) module (corresponding to the first sharing unit 264): provides an open API interface for the external mobile internet to query the user location information from the system;

The reverse proxy-based capability opening module (corresponding to the second sharing unit 268 described above): by providing the http reverse proxy forwarding function, inserting the user's location information into the header information requested by the user http, and opening it to the backward mobile internet service system .

The mobile user location information capability open system of the alternative embodiment is used to implement user location information collection and opening, including the following steps:

Step A. First, configure the correspondence between the mobile cell and the geographic coordinate latitude and longitude in the system operation and maintenance interface, save it in the system service configuration, and synchronize the configuration information to the user location information storage processing module;

Step B: The mobile core network forwards the user online message to the user location information collection module of the system, and the collection module analyzes and extracts the user ID and the mobile cell location information;

Step C: The mobile core network forwards the user location update message to the user location information collection module of the system, and the collection module analyzes and extracts the user ID and the cell location information;

Step D: The collecting module sends the user location information to the data saving module, and the location information saving module searches the cell and the latitude and longitude correspondence relationship configuration table according to the user mobile cell information, finds the corresponding geographic coordinate latitude and longitude information, and then sets the user ID, the current mobile cell, and the latitude and longitude. The information is saved to the user location information table;

Step E. The external Internet system queries the current location information of the user by calling the API interface provided by the system, thereby implementing passive opening of the user location information;

Step F. The core network sends the user's online request to the system, and the system inserts the user ID and the location information, and then forwards the online request to the Internet target system to realize the active opening of the user location information.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a location of a mobile subscriber location information capability open system in a mobile internet according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the system of the optional embodiment accesses a mobile network through a router of a backbone network, and implements Protocol (Internet Protocol, IP for short) communication between the mobile core network and the Internet network, including: docking with the mobile core network, collecting user location information and forwarding user page access requests forwarded by the core network; and Internet docking The ability to implement user location information is open.

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile user location information capability open system module according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the mobile user location information capability open system of the optional embodiment includes an operation and maintenance configuration module and a location information collection and analysis module. The location information storage module, the data storage subsystem, the location information open API interface module, and the reverse proxy capability open module, each of which implements specific functions, and implements inter-module interworking based on a unified support system.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a process for collecting and storing mobile user location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8, the data configuration process includes the following steps:

Step S802, the operation and maintenance configuration module performs data configuration, and sends the configured data to the data storage system.

Step S804, the data storage system sends the configured data to the location information saving module.

The following steps are included in the location information collection process:

Step S806, the user terminal sends the user online or location update message to the mobile core network;

Step S808, the mobile core network sends the user online or location update message to the collection and analysis module;

Step S810, the collection analysis module parses and extracts the user ID and the cell location information.

Step S812, the collection analysis module sends the conversion and saves to the location information saving module;

Step S814, the location information saving module converts the user mobile cell information into latitude and longitude;

In step S816, the location information saving module sends the converted information to the data storage system for storage.

That is, the mobile user location information collection and storage processing flow of the alternative embodiment includes two main processes:

The configuration process of the latitude and longitude correspondence of the cell:

The administrator configures the correspondence between the latitude and longitude of the cell through the operation and maintenance configuration interface.

The operation and maintenance configuration module sends the configuration data to the data storage system for storage;

The data storage system synchronizes the configuration information to the location information saving processing module;

User location information collection and saving process:

The core network copies the user online and location update information to the collection and analysis module;

The collection and analysis module processes the user online and location update message, extracts the user ID and the cell location information currently located by the user, and sends the location information to the location information storage module through the internal message interface;

The location information saving processing module receives the user mobile cell location information, converts the user mobile cell location information into latitude and longitude information according to the cell latitude and longitude configuration table, and saves the information to the data storage subsystem of the system;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a process for opening a mobile user location information capability according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, an open process based on an API interface includes:

Step S902, the Internet service system sends the user location request information to the capability open interface module.

Step S904, the capability open interface module sends the user location acquisition information to the data storage system;

Step S906, the capability open interface module sends the user location response information to the internet service system.

The open process based on http reverse proxy includes:

Step S908, the user terminal sends a user page access request to the mobile core network.

Step S910, the mobile core network sends a user page access request to the reverse proxy module.

Step S912, the reverse proxy module sends user location acquisition information to the data storage system;

Step S914, the reverse proxy module inserts the user location information into the http header information;

Step S916, the reverse proxy module forwards the http request carrying the location information to the internet service system.

That is, the mobile user location information capability open processing flow of the alternative embodiment includes two main processes:

API-based interface passive open process:

The external internet system initiates a user location information query request to the system location information open API interface module by calling an API interface provided by the system;

The API interface module obtains user location information from the data storage subsystem through an internal interface;

The API interface module forwards the user location information obtained from the data storage subsystem to the external internet system.

Active open process based on reverse proxy:

The core network forwards the http request that requires the user location information to the reverse proxy module of the system;

The reverse proxy module acquires the user location information obtained from the data storage subsystem and inserts it into the header of the http request;

The reverse proxy module forwards the http request (carrying location information) to the target internet system.

In summary, the embodiment of the present invention converts the cell location in the mobile network into the latitude and longitude information based on the geographical coordinates of the mobile terminal, which can effectively avoid the situation that the terminal and the user's personal willingness cannot continuously obtain the user location information, and at the same time, The embodiment of the invention is based on the mobile network standard function (online and location update), and has low requirements for the transformation of the mobile network. Compared with the complex positioning system, the embodiment of the invention effectively reduces the comprehensive cost of acquiring the user location information of the mobile internet service system, and is convenient. The Internet business system is more convenient for extensive location-based marketing or other business.

In addition, the accuracy of the user location information acquired by the location collection method used in the embodiment of the present invention is limited to the location information of the mobile core network report, and can only be accurate to the mobile network cell level, and therefore is only applicable to the scenario based on the coarse-grained location marketing. under.

In another embodiment, software is also provided for performing the technical solutions described in the above embodiments and preferred embodiments.

In another embodiment, a storage medium is further provided, wherein the software includes the above-mentioned software, including but not limited to: an optical disk, a floppy disk, a hard disk, an erasable memory, and the like.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the various modules or steps of the present invention described above can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device that can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed across a network of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device and, in some cases, may be different from the order herein. The steps shown or described are performed, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or a plurality of modules or steps thereof are fabricated as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

In the embodiment of the present invention, the information about the serving cell currently located by the user equipment is obtained; the geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell is searched according to the information of the serving cell; and the geographical location information is shared to the Internet. The invention solves the problem that the location information of the user cannot be effectively collected in the related art, thereby effectively reducing the comprehensive cost of acquiring the location information of the mobile internet service system, and facilitating the extensive development of the location-based marketing or other services by the Internet service system.

Claims

A user equipment location information sharing method includes:

Obtaining information about the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located;

Finding geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information of the serving cell;

The geographical location information is shared to the Internet.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the searching for the geographical location information corresponding to the serving cell according to the information of the serving cell comprises:

Corresponding relationship between the serving cell and the geographical location information of the serving cell is configured.
The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining information of the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located includes:

Receiving an online message of the user equipment from the mobile core network;

The information about the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located is parsed from the online message.
The method according to claim 3, wherein when the information of the serving cell currently located in the user equipment is parsed from the online message, the method further includes:

The identification information of the user equipment and the information about the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located are parsed from the online message.
The method of claim 1 wherein sharing the geographic location information to the internet comprises:

Receiving query request information of the Internet; sharing the geographical location information to the Internet under the trigger of the query request information; and/or

Receiving http request information of the mobile core network; and triggering, by the http request information, the geographical location to be shared in the http request information and shared to the Internet.
A user equipment location information sharing device, the device comprising:

The obtaining module is configured to obtain information about a serving cell where the user equipment is currently located;

a searching module, configured to search, according to information about the serving cell, geographic location information corresponding to the serving cell;

A sharing module is arranged to share the geographic location information to the Internet.
The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said apparatus further comprises:

The configuration module is configured to configure a correspondence between the serving cell and the geographical location information of the serving cell.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the obtaining module comprises:

a receiving unit, configured to receive an online message of the user equipment from a mobile core network;

The parsing unit is configured to parse the information of the serving cell where the user equipment is currently located from the online message.
The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the parsing unit is further configured to parse the identification information of the user equipment and the information of the serving cell currently located by the user equipment from the online message.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the sharing module comprises:

a first receiving unit, configured to receive query request information of the Internet;

a first sharing unit configured to share the geographic location information to the Internet as indicated by the query request information; and/or

a second receiving unit, configured to receive hypertext transfer protocol http request information of the mobile core network;

The second sharing unit is configured to carry the geographical location to the Internet in the http request information triggered by the http request information.