WO2016127872A1

WO2016127872A1 - Method and device for sorting contacts in contact list

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Publication number: WO2016127872A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/073208
Authority: WO
Inventors: 王健
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-02-09
Filing date: 2016-02-02
Publication date: 2016-08-18
Also published as: CN105992144A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and device for sorting contacts in a contact list. The method comprises: a first terminal acquires first geographic location information of the first terminal and geographic location information corresponding to contacts in a contact list of the first terminal; and the first terminal separately compares the first geographic location information with the geographic location information of the contacts and performs a sorting operation on the contacts according to the comparison result. By means of the present invention, the problem in the related art that contacts in a contact list of a terminal are sorted in a less diversified manner is solved.

Description

Method and device for sorting contacts in address book

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a method and apparatus for sorting contacts in an address book.

Background technique

With the development of smart terminals in recent years, smart terminals have penetrated into all aspects of people's lives, such as shopping, online transactions, social and so on. As people's lives become more intelligent and intelligent, people's requirements for smart terminals are getting higher and higher. Among them, the inventor found that the address book function is one of the most important basic functions of the smart terminal. In the related art, the sorting method of the contacts in the address book can only be inquired according to the first letter of the contact letter or manually creating a new group. It can be seen that the related art has a single ordering method for contacts in the address book.

Aiming at the problem that the ordering of contacts in the terminal address book is relatively simple in the related art, an effective solution has not been proposed yet.

Summary of the invention

The main purpose of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for sorting contacts in an address book, so as to at least solve the problem that the order of the contacts in the terminal address book is relatively simple in the related art.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a method for sorting contacts in an address book is provided, including: acquiring, by a first terminal, first geographic location information that is located by itself, and corresponding to a contact in the first terminal address book; The first terminal compares the first geographical location information with the geographical location information of the contact, and performs a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result.

Optionally, the first location information that the first terminal acquires itself and the one or more geographical location information corresponding to the one or more contacts in the local address book include: the first terminal is stored from the visit location register VLR The first geographical location information and the geographical location information corresponding to the contact point are obtained in the geographical location information.

Optionally, performing the sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result includes: when the comparison result is used to indicate a geographic distance between the first geographic location information and the contact geographic location information, the first terminal is configured according to the foregoing The geographic distance performs a sort operation on the above contacts.

Optionally, before the first terminal acquires the first geographical location information in which the first terminal is located and the one or more geographical location information corresponding to the one or more contacts in the local address book, the method further includes: the first terminal The first geographical location information is automatically reported to the VLR.

Optionally, after performing the sorting operation on the contact, according to the comparison result, the method further includes: the first terminal presenting the sorted contact to the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a device for sorting contacts in an address book is provided on the first terminal side, and includes: an obtaining module, configured to acquire a first geographic location where the first terminal is located The location information and the geographical location information corresponding to the contact in the first terminal address book; the ranking module is configured to compare the first geographical location information with the geographical location information of the contact, respectively, and compare the contact according to the comparison result The person performs the sorting operation.

Optionally, the obtaining module is further configured to obtain the first geographical location information and the geographical location information corresponding to the contact point from the geographic location information stored by the visit location register VLR.

Optionally, the sorting module is configured to perform a sorting operation on the contact according to the geographic distance when the comparison result is used to indicate a geographic distance between the first geographic location information and the geographic location information of the contact.

Optionally, the foregoing apparatus further includes: a reporting module, configured to automatically report the first geographical location information to the VLR.

Optionally, the foregoing apparatus further includes: a presentation module, configured to present the sorted contact to the user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal location information data is saved to the server by using the GPS function of the mobile terminal. When the current mobile terminal needs to sort the contacts according to the geographical relationship, the relevant data is obtained from the server for measurement, and the sorting function is completed. In addition, it has effectively expanded the business scope of operators and improved the user experience. The invention solves the problem that the order of the contacts in the terminal address book is relatively simple in the related art.

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 sorting contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a device for sorting contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing an optional structure of a sorting device for contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a method for reporting geographic location information by a mobile terminal according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a VLR capability format according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

6 is a flowchart of a method for a mobile terminal to query an address location information of a VLR according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a flow chart of a method for a mobile terminal to process geographic location data in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for a mobile terminal to perform address book sorting according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

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. The invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments.

This embodiment provides a method for sorting contacts in an address book. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for sorting contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the steps of the method include:

Step S102: The first terminal acquires first geographical location information that is located by itself and geographic location information corresponding to the contact in the first terminal address book.

Step S104: The first terminal compares the first geographical location information with the geographic location information of the contact, and performs a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result.

In this embodiment, comparing the first geographic location information of the first terminal itself with the geographic location information of the contact in the first terminal address book, thereby obtaining a comparison result between the first geographical location information and the geographical location information of the contact, According to the comparison result of the geographical location information, the first terminal performs a sorting operation on the contact, which solves the problem that the contact ordering mode of the terminal address book in the related technology is relatively simple, and fills the gap in the related technology.

In the step S102 in the embodiment, the first terminal acquires the first geographical location information in which the first terminal is located and one or more geographical location information corresponding to one or more contacts in the local address book, in this embodiment. The first terminal can obtain the first geographical location information and the geographical location information corresponding to the contact from the geographical location information stored in the Visitor Location Register (VLR). It should be noted that the VLR is used to store the geographic location information of the terminal and the geographical location information of the contact, which is only an optional implementation manner of the embodiment. The terminal may adopt other according to the needs of the user or the setting of the terminal itself. The way to store geographic location information.

In addition, the manner in which the sorting operation is performed on the contact according to the comparison result in the embodiment may be implemented in an optional implementation manner of the embodiment, where the comparison result is used to indicate the first geographical location information. When the geographic distance between the geographic location information and the geographic location information of the contact is respectively, the first terminal performs a sorting operation on the contact according to the geographical distance. It should be noted that, in the application scenario of the optional implementation, the ranking may be performed in a manner that is close to the first terminal according to the geographic distance, or may be performed in a manner that is far from the first terminal.

In another optional implementation manner of this embodiment, before the first terminal acquires the first geographical location information in which the first terminal is located and one or more geographical location information corresponding to one or more contacts in the local address book, The method of this embodiment may further include: the first terminal automatically reporting the first geographical location information to the VLR. The first location information is automatically reported to the VLR by the first terminal. Similarly, for the geographic location information of the contact in the first terminal, the terminal corresponding to the contact also automatically reports the geographical location information to the VLR, so that the VLR is in the VLR. The stored geographical location information is updated in real time to ensure the geographical location information of the current location of the terminal.

Optionally, after performing the sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result, the method in this embodiment may further include: the first terminal presenting the sorted contacts to the user, so that the user can visually see the sorted contacts.

In this embodiment, a sorting device for the contacts in the address book is also provided, and the device is used to implement the above-mentioned embodiments and optional 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 block diagram showing the structure of a device for sorting contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention. The device is located on the first terminal side. As shown in FIG. 2, the device includes: an obtaining module 22, configured to acquire the location of the first terminal. The first geographic location information and the geographic location information corresponding to the contact in the first terminal address book; the ranking module 24 is coupled to the acquisition module 22, and configured to separately perform the first geographic location information and the geographic location information of the contact Compare and perform sort operations on contacts based on the comparison results.

Optionally, the obtaining module 22 is further configured to obtain the first geographical location information and the geographical location information corresponding to the contact from the geographical location information stored by the visited location register VLR. And the sorting module 24 is further configured to perform a sorting operation on the contact according to the geographic distance when the comparison result is used to indicate a geographical distance between the first geographical location information and the contact geographic location information respectively.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an optional structure of a device for sorting contacts in an address book according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the device includes: a reporting module 32 coupled to the acquiring module 22 and configured to automatically report to the VLR. A geographical location information. The presentation module 34 is coupled to the sequencing module 24 and configured to present the sorted contacts to the user.

The invention is exemplified below in conjunction with an alternative embodiment of the invention;

The optional embodiment provides a method, a system and a terminal for sorting address books, so that the mobile terminal sorts the address records according to the geographical relationship with the contacts.

The method provided by the present embodiment includes: after the mobile terminal is powered on, the GPS function automatically locates the latitude and longitude of the current geographic location of the mobile terminal, and when the mobile terminal initiates a location update request to the visited location register VLR, the data is sent to the VLR. The geographic location information of the mobile terminal is saved by the VLR. When the mobile terminal makes When the address book is sorted by geographical location, the VLR attached to the mobile terminal automatically obtains the geographical location information of the contact stored in the corresponding VLR in the address book, and the mobile terminal calculates the contact of the mobile terminal and the address book by the corresponding latitude and longitude. The geographical distance between the two, according to the geographical distance of the distance, complete the sorting function of the address book.

The mobile terminal provided by the optional embodiment includes: a mobile terminal location acquiring module, configured to acquire current location information of the mobile terminal, including latitude and longitude; and a mobile terminal registration module, configured to acquire the location information, and the VLR registers the information; The terminal address book module is configured to initiate a location sorting function; the mobile terminal processing module is configured to obtain geographical location information data between the mobile terminal and the contact obtained from the VLR end, and complete corresponding processing; the mobile terminal display module is set to be based on Sort the results and display the results on the interface.

The system provided by this alternative embodiment includes: a visit location register VLR, in which the current location information of the mobile terminal can be saved. When the mobile terminal initiates a location update, the geographic location is sent to the VLR, and the VLR saves the information. When the mobile terminal VLR initiates querying the geographic location information of the contact, the related data may be called in the VLR or other VLR and fed back to the mobile terminal.

With the optional embodiment, the address book sorting function can be effectively extended, and the user can provide a better user experience for the mobile user when contacting the nearby contact, and expand the operator network function to expand the commercial range of the mobile operator.

The present optional embodiment will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for reporting geographic location information by a mobile terminal according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the steps of the method include:

Step S402: The mobile terminal enables a Global Positioning System (GPS) function to obtain current geographic location information.

Step S404: The mobile terminal initiates a location update to the VLR, and sends the geographical location information to the VLR.

Step S406: The VLR saves the location information.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a VLR capability format according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, in order to save geographic location information of a mobile terminal, VLR storage information needs to be extended, and the current visit location register VLR mainly includes IMSI, TMSI, MSISDN, The location area where the mobile station is registered and the supplementary service parameters. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method for a mobile terminal to query an address location information of a VLR according to an optional embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the steps of the method include:

Step S602: The mobile terminal initiates an address book request by geolocation;

Step S604: The VLR queries the local geographical location information;

Step S606: The VLR queries the contact geographic location information;

Step S608: The VLR feeds back the acquired information to the mobile terminal.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a method for processing geographic location data by a mobile terminal according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the steps of the method include:

Step S702: The VLR feeds back the geographical location information to the mobile terminal.

Step S704: The mobile terminal measures the geographical distance between the contact and the contact A; acquires the data A;

Step S706: The mobile terminal measures the geographical distance between the mobile terminal and the contact B; acquires the data B;

Step S708: The mobile terminal saves the distance measurement result with each contact.

It should be noted that only two contact instances are given in this flowchart and the corresponding description, and two or more contacts are also applicable to the method in the flowchart.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for a mobile terminal to perform address book sorting according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 8 , the steps of the method include:

Step S802: The mobile terminal sorts each measurement result obtained from the VLR according to a corresponding rule;

Step S804: The address book module performs sorting display according to the result.

The mobile terminal location information data is saved to the server by using the GPS function of the mobile terminal in the alternative embodiment. When the current mobile terminal needs to sort the contacts according to the geographical relationship, the relevant data is obtained from the server for measurement, and the sorting function is completed. It has effectively expanded the commercial business scope of operators and improved the user experience.

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 is only an alternative embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and is for those skilled in the art. The invention is susceptible to various modifications and changes. 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 process of sorting contacts in the address book of the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal location information data is saved to the server through the GPS function of the mobile terminal, and the current mobile terminal needs to sort the contacts according to the geographical relationship, and obtains from the server end. The relevant data is measured and the sorting function is completed, thereby effectively expanding the commercial business scope of the operator and improving the user experience. The invention solves the problem that the order of the contacts in the terminal address book is relatively simple in the related art.

Claims

A method for sorting contacts in an address book, including:

The first terminal acquires first geographical location information that is located by itself and geographical location information corresponding to the contact in the first terminal address book;

The first terminal compares the first geographical location information with the geographic location information of the contact, and performs a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the first location information that the first terminal acquires itself and one or more geographical location information corresponding to one or more contacts in the local address book include:

The first terminal acquires the first geographic location information and geographic location information corresponding to the contact from the geographic location information stored by the visit location register VLR.
The method of claim 2, wherein performing a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result comprises:

When the comparison result is used to indicate a geographical distance between the first geographic location information and the geographic location information of the contact, the first terminal performs a sorting operation on the contact according to the geographic distance.
The method of claim 3, wherein before the first terminal acquires first geographic location information in which it is located and one or more geographic location information corresponding to one or more contacts in the local address book, The method also includes:

The first terminal automatically reports the first geographical location information to the VLR.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein after performing a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result, the method further comprises:

The first terminal presents the sorted contacts to a user.
A sorting device for a contact in an address book, located on the first terminal side, comprising:

An acquiring module, configured to acquire first geographic location information where the first terminal is located, and geographic location information corresponding to the contact in the first terminal address book;

The sorting module is configured to compare the first geographical location information with the geographic location information of the contact respectively, and perform a sorting operation on the contact according to the comparison result.
The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

The obtaining module is further configured to obtain from the geographical location information stored in the visit location register VLR The first geographic location information and geographic location information corresponding to the contact.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

The sorting module is configured to perform sorting on the contact according to the geographic distance when the comparison result is used to indicate a geographic distance between the first geographic location information and the geographic location information of the contact operating.
The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said apparatus further comprises:

The reporting module is configured to automatically report the first geographical location information to the VLR.
The device according to any one of claims 6 to 9, wherein the device further comprises:

A presentation module configured to present the sorted contacts to a user.