CN103220617A - Method and equipment for providing locating service - Google Patents
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The invention provides a method and equipment for providing a locating service. The method comprises receiving motion of a first user at a specific position, detecting the distance of a second user relative to the specific position, and informing the second user if the distance is within a threshold range. According to the method and the equipment for providing the locating service, various activities can be popularized among friends, such as group purchase information. Due to the convenience of real social intercourse, trust degree and purchase degree of products from clients can be greatly improved, and therefore interaction of information, such as the group purchase information, is promoted.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to network communication field, more specifically, relate to the method and apparatus that is used to provide positioning service.
Background technology
Positioning service (LBS), be called location-based service again, it is the positional information (geographical coordinate that obtains mobile phone users by the radio communication network of telecommunications mobile operator (as GSM net, CDMA net) or outside locate mode (as GPS), or geodetic coordinates), under the support of GIS-Geographic Information System (GIS) platform, provide a kind of value-added service of respective service for the user.
The circulation that can greatly promote information that combines of positioning service and social networks, and provide more accurate and instant service for the consumer
As used herein term " social networks " or " social network sites " be point to the special object interested or just together the people of " saunter " the web website of virtual community is provided.The member communicates by technological means such as voice, chat, instant message, video conference and blogs.And social networks provides other members' of contact good friend's method usually to the member.This website can also be as the media of meeting in person.
Social networks communicates and mutual ability (noting having the implication that is equal to " member " and " user " of social networks, so be used interchangeably) for its user or member provide other users with this social networks.In operation, the user of social networks can at first login, and carries out interaction with its good friend or other users then.Term " good friend " is meant that the user is formed with any other user of connection, association or other relations by social networks as used herein.(but not necessarily) that connection in the social networks is normally two-way, so term " good friend " may depend on reference system.Notice that the connection between the good friend can be direct connection; Yet some execution mode of social networks allows to form good friend's relation via one-level or multistage indirect connection.In addition, term " good friend " is not to necessarily require the user to be actually friend in actual life, and it only represents the relation in the social networks.
At present, purchasing by group more and more becomes the focus of each social networks business, and still, owing to purchase by group not very fixing contact between the member, the information that therefore purchases by group is enough not true and reliable for a lot of users, and this has obviously hindered the development that purchases by group.And, there is not the technology of utilizing social networks and LBS to promote to purchase by group development in the prior art yet, thereby limited the instant rapidly transmission of authentic communication between the user, this has hindered the LBS The Application of Technology on the other hand again.
Summary of the invention
Goal of the invention of the present invention is to provide a kind of and utilizes positioning service to come for the user provides the method and apparatus of information accurately and reliably, transmits rapidly thereby not only can promote the instant of information, and can promote the LBS The Application of Technology.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of method that is used to provide positioning service, comprising: receive the activity of first user in specific location; Detect the distance of second user with respect to described ad-hoc location; If described distance in threshold range, is then notified described second user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein notify described second user to comprise:, then to notify described second user if described first user and second user are the good friend.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said first user the activity of specific location with notify described second user side by side to carry out.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein receive first user and comprise in the activity of specific location: is historical information with described first user in the active storage of specific location; And notify described second user to comprise: described historical information is notified to described second user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said historical information is provided with the term of validity, if described historical information before the deadline, then described historical information is notified to described second user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, further comprise: after receiving the activity of first user, sort out one of at least according to following manner: sort out or sort out according to first user according to activity in specific location.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein notify described second user: short message, map, Voice ﹠ Video in following at least a mode.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said first user comprises one or more in following in the activity of specific location: purchase, amusement, travelling and motion.
According to another aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of equipment that is used to provide positioning service, comprising: be used to receive the device of first user in the activity of specific location; Be used to detect the device of second user with respect to the distance of described ad-hoc location; If be used for described distance in threshold range, then notify described second user's device.
Method and apparatus provided by the invention can according to user's position with and recommend information that enrich, trusty with other users' relation, for example purchase by group information other users' action message together, thereby the information of promotion is mutual, and promotes to purchase by group the development in market.And by the present invention, the information that purchases by group between the friend can be generalized to propagation and projection between friend's chain easily, because true social convenience can will improve greatly to the degree of belief and the purchase degree of product, thereby has promoted the development that purchases by group.
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Fig. 1 has described the method flow diagram according to one aspect of the invention;
Fig. 2 has described equipment block diagram according to a further aspect of the present invention; And
Fig. 3 shows the schematic block diagram that is suitable for being used for putting into practice the computer system of embodiment of the present invention.
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Come the specific embodiment of the present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.In the following description, for illustrative purposes, many details have been set forth, so that the thorough to embodiments of the invention is provided.Yet, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that embodiments of the invention can not have under the situation of these details practice or utilize the layout that is equal to put into practice.In other examples, show known structure and equipment with the form of block diagram, to avoid unnecessarily fuzzy embodiments of the invention.
Fig. 1 has described the method flow diagram according to one aspect of the invention.
As shown in Figure 1, at first,, receive the activity of first user in specific location at step S1.
According to the embodiment of the present invention, ad-hoc location described here for example can be the market, gymnasium, public place of entertainment, tourist attractions or the like.And activity described here for example can be the shopping that is used to participate in the market, participates in the gymnasium/come to matches, and carries out recreation in the public place of entertainment or in tourist attractions tourism or the like.It will be appreciated that, only be a kind of example here, it may occur to persons skilled in the art that, " activity " described here can be any commerciality and/or non-commercial activity.
Those skilled in the art it will be appreciated that first user described here can be unique user or a plurality of user.For example user A-F all does shopping in certain market, and perhaps user A-F carries out different activities in different places respectively, and for example user A and B are in shopping, and user C and D nearby visit a museum, and comes to matches in the nigh gymnasium of user E and F.At this moment, user A-F all can be called " first user ".Therefore, " first user " is a general name to the user who participates in activity, and also must refer to some specific users.
Judgement to customer location can be carried out in several ways, the positional information (geographical coordinate, or geodetic coordinates) of obtaining mobile phone users by radio communication network (as GSM net, CDMA net) or the outside locate mode (as GPS) of mobile operator for example.Those skilled in the art can adopt any suitable method to determine user's position, will repeat no more here.
Next, as shown in Figure 1,, detect the distance of second user with respect to described ad-hoc location at step S2.Be appreciated that when having determined two users' position, can determine the distance between them at an easy rate.
Further as shown in Figure 1, at step S3, if described distance in threshold range, is then notified described second user.Distance described here can be set according to the actual requirements.For example, for two users of the large size city that coexists, if two users' walking distance greatly within 30 minutes, may think that then the distance of the two is more approaching, can notify second user this moment.Again for example, first user and second user itself are the good friends, the two coincidentally arrives a city tour in other places, although two places, incity, city this moment (particularly large size city) may be difficult to arrive within 30 minutes, but because first user and second usefulness are per family from the other places, then can think the two close proximity this moment, therefore can notify second user.This shows that threshold value described here is not limited to a certain specific value, but can adopt any desired and suitable distance.In addition, it will be appreciated that above-mentioned " 30 minutes " only are examples, the present invention can be applicable to any reasonable time length.
According to an embodiment of the invention, notify described second user to comprise:, then to notify described second user if described first user and second user are the good friend.
According to above-mentioned execution mode, can avoid effectively the user is formed excessive interference, thus the validity of the information of improvement, and conserve network resources.As described in the background art, " good friend " is meant that the user is formed with any other user of connection, association or other relations by social networks, can be direct " good friend " (or being called the one-level good friend), also can be good friend's (or being called the secondary good friend) of good friend, by that analogy.The good friend here can also comprise the good friend with common hobby, and for example the two all has common hobby to shopping, and also not all likes watching football match.Therefore,, then can notify second user, and when first user is watching the football game match when for example first user is doing shopping and second user when being in the threshold range, though second user through near, also need not to second user notification.
According to an embodiment of the invention, described first user the activity of specific location with notify described second user side by side to carry out.
According to this execution mode, for example when first user was just doing shopping, second user and this first user's distance reached threshold value, then notified this second user at once.At this moment, second user can know at once that this first user does shopping, and can search out this first user thus and does shopping together.Owing to is that the good friend concerns between the two, therefore second user just has than higher acceptance the commodity that first user is buying, thereby can promote the behavior bought.And immediately giving notice to promote the ageing of purchase activity effectively, thereby can improve the sales volume of trade company.Certainly, only be illustrated as example with shopping here, other activity is for example had dinner, and watches/participate in activity such as sports tournament all to be among the scope of the present invention.
According to an embodiment of the invention, receive first user and comprise in the activity of specific location: is historical information with described first user in the active storage of specific location; And notify described second user to comprise: described historical information is notified to described second user.
According to present embodiment, be not conceived to instant or real-time shopping, but be used as historical information under the activation record of considering user (for example first user) is participated in, when second user carries out movable place through first user or with the distance in these places in threshold range, then the historical act with first user is notified to second user.
For example, the user A once a plurality of shops on a shopping street bought thing, and system can write down user A all buying behaviors on this shopping street and store like this.As good friend of user A during, then the buying behavior of the user A that notes can be notified to this good friend through this shopping street.That is to say, when the good friend of this user A advances on this shopping street, the notice that constantly obtains about user A buying behavior.Because the trust between the good friend, buying behavior once more then can be more prone to take place.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said historical information is provided with the term of validity, if described historical information before the deadline, then described historical information is notified to described second user.
The effect that the term of validity is set is to avoid the information with expired or too outmoded to be notified to the user.For example, the clothes in certain shop summer are only attractive to the user within a certain period of time, and this sales information or sales promotion information then do not have too many attraction in the winter time for the user.Therefore, for being provided with the term of validity, historical information can avoid too much useless information to send to the user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, method of the present invention further comprises: after receiving the activity of first user in specific location, sort out one of at least according to following manner: sort out or sort out according to first user according to activity.
According to this execution mode, can be so that select or screen according to user's preference.If for example user enjoys shopping and other is movablely had no stomach for, at this moment, whether it can select " shopping " to have the good friend doing shopping with (for example having an area of within one kilometer) near checking it, if find, then it can participate in shopping together in company with the good friend.Perhaps, the user can select according to good friend's classification.For example the user compares preference has than higher degree of belief with good friend A participation activity or to good friend A, and no matter whether interesting to activity, this moment, the user can select " good friend A " to check all activities of good friend A.If good friend A nearby (for example within a kilometer) is participating in a certain activity (for example shopping, amusement, motion, travelling or the like) or once participating in some activity, then give this user with the activity notification of this good friend A.
It will be appreciated that above-mentioned classification can be finished in server one side, thereby the user can conduct interviews directly; Perhaps above-mentioned classification can be finished at the client place.
Need be understood that further that above-mentioned classification is a kind of example, the present invention is not limited to classifying mode listed above.According to an illustrative embodiment of the invention, classification can also be carried out according to the time of activity generation, movable frequency, movable scene and user's of taking place distance or their combination or the like.For example, a certain user can select its a certain particular buddies participation frequency to some specific activities in a special time period, if such combination satisfies condition, then this user can select to participate in this activity.
Can send notice in any mode that is known as following exploitation.For example, can notify the user with in short message, map, the Voice ﹠ Video one or more.For example, after first user has participated in certain purchase activity, after satisfying certain condition (for example above described condition), the good friend (for example second user) that then can send short messages and notify this first user; The perhaps direct place that direct show events takes place on this second user client; Perhaps give this second user with this activity notification in the mode of voice broadcast; Perhaps demonstrate this movable place to this second user in the mode of video.By the combination of these modes or these modes, second user can know clearly the place of generation activity, and knows and arrive this place how rapidly.
According to another aspect of the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, it has described equipment block diagram according to a further aspect of the present invention.Fig. 2 shows a kind of equipment that is used to provide positioning service, comprising: be used to receive the device 10 of first user in the activity of specific location; Be used to detect the device 20 of second user with respect to the distance of described ad-hoc location; And, if be used for described distance in threshold range, then notify described second user's device 30.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein notify described second user to comprise:, then to notify described second user if described first user and second user are the good friend.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said first user the activity of specific location with notify described second user side by side to carry out.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein be used to receive first user and comprise at the device of the activity of specific location: being used for described first user is the device of historical information in the active storage of specific location; And be used to notify described second user's device to comprise: the device that is used for described historical information is notified to described second user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said historical information is provided with the term of validity, if described historical information before the deadline, then described historical information is notified to described second user.
According to an embodiment of the invention, the said equipment further comprises: be used for after receiving the activity of first user in specific location the device of described activity being classified according to one of following manner: according to the class of activity with according to first user's classification.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein notify described second user: short message, map, Voice ﹠ Video in following at least a mode.
According to an embodiment of the invention, wherein said first user comprises one or more in following in the activity of specific location: purchase, amusement, travelling and motion.
Method and apparatus provided by the invention can according to user's position with and recommend information that enrich, trusty with other users' relation, for example purchase by group information other users' action message together, thereby the information of promotion is mutual, and promotes to purchase by group the development in market.And by the present invention, the information that purchases by group between the friend can be generalized to propagation and projection between friend's chain easily, because true social convenience can will improve greatly to the degree of belief and the purchase degree of product, thereby has promoted the development that purchases by group.
Can on kinds of platform, realize according to technical scheme of the present invention, for example on the SoLoMo platform of everybody net.SoLoMo i.e. social activity+this locality+mobile, and it has become one of the most very powerful and exceedingly arrogant service of mobile Internet company and technology.Those skilled in the art have good understanding to it, therefore will repeat no more here.
It will be appreciated that everybody the SoLoMo platform of net only is an example, the present invention can be applicable to any suitable social local mobile internet platform, for example purchases by group network platform or the like.
The member that the user who describes in the specification of the present invention can the service provider (for example everybody net or glutinous rice net purchase by group accredited members).And the place of the activity that participates in, retail shop for example, the gymnasium, can sign an agreement with the service provider in advance in places such as public place of entertainment, in case in these place generation activities, then these places (for example retail shop, gymnasium or public place of entertainment) then can be with the information uploading that carries out movable user at this to service provider's (needing the permission through the user sometimes), perhaps also can be by the user of participation activity directly with oneself information uploading to the service provider.The present invention is not limited to any specific situation.
The user can bring in access or obtain positioning service provided by the present invention by any mobile InterWorking Equipment or client, and these equipment or client include but not limited to mobile phone, panel computer, personal digital assistant, notebook computer and any suitable mobile device.
Connection between the client and server can also adopt multiple access or connected mode to realize, GPRS for example, CDMA, WLAN, TCP/IP, Wifi, various technology of UMTS and following exploitation or the like.It will be appreciated that although may also can have other network elements between the client and server, for convenience and for the purpose of clear, description of the invention has been omitted these unnecessary descriptions.
Various execution mode of the present invention can be realized with hardware, software, firmware, processor, circuit and the combination in any among them.
Fig. 3 shows the schematic block diagram that is suitable for being used for putting into practice the computer system of embodiment of the present invention.As shown in Figure 6, computer system can comprise: CPU (CPU) 301, RAM (random access memory) 302, ROM (read-only memory) 303, system bus 304, hard disk controller 305, keyboard controller 306, serial interface controller 307, parallel interface controller 308, display controller 309, hard disk 310, keyboard 311, serial external equipment 312, parallel external equipment 313 and display 314.In these equipment, with system bus 304 coupling CPU 301, RAM 302, ROM 303, hard disk controller 305, keyboard controller 306, serialization controller 307, parallel controller 308 and display controller 309 arranged.Hard disk 310 and hard disk controller 305 couplings, keyboard 311 and keyboard controller 306 couplings, serial external equipment 312 and serial interface controller 307 couplings, parallel external equipment 313 and parallel interface controller 308 couplings, and display 314 and display controller 309 couplings.Should be appreciated that the described structured flowchart of Fig. 3 illustrates just to the purpose of example, rather than limitation of the scope of the invention.In some cases, can increase or reduce some equipment as the case may be.
One skilled in the art will appreciate that the above-mentioned execution mode that provides just in order to explain the present invention, rather than restriction protection scope of the present invention.Those skilled in the art can carry out various modifications and variations to each execution mode based on instruction of the present invention within the scope of the appended claims under the situation that does not deviate from protection range of the present invention.Therefore, the present invention is intended to contain the interior included various modifications and the equivalent arrangements of spirit and scope of claims.The scope of claim meets broad interpretation, so that comprise all such modifications and equivalent structure and function.
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1. method that is used to provide positioning service comprises:
Receive the activity of first user in specific location;
Detect the distance of second user with respect to described ad-hoc location;
If described distance in threshold range, is then notified described second user.
2. method according to claim 1 wherein notifies described second user to comprise: if described first user and second user are the good friend, then to notify described second user.
3. method according to claim 1, wherein said first user the activity of specific location with notify described second user side by side to carry out.
4. method according to claim 1 wherein receives first user and comprises in the activity of specific location: is historical information with described first user in the active storage of specific location; And notify described second user to comprise: described historical information is notified to described second user.
5. method according to claim 4, wherein said historical information is provided with the term of validity, if described historical information before the deadline, then described historical information is notified to described second user.
6. method according to claim 1 further comprises: after receiving the activity of first user in specific location, sort out one of at least according to following manner: sort out or sort out according to first user according to activity.
7. according to any described method among the claim 1-6, wherein notify described second user: short message, map, Voice ﹠ Video in following at least a mode.
8. according to any described method among the claim 1-6, wherein said first user comprises one or more in following in the activity of specific location: purchase, amusement, travelling and motion.
9. equipment that is used to provide positioning service comprises:
Be used to receive the device of first user in the activity of specific location;
Be used to detect the device of second user with respect to the distance of described ad-hoc location;
If be used for described distance in threshold range, then notify described second user's device.
10. equipment according to claim 9 wherein notifies described second user to comprise: if described first user and second user are the good friend, then to notify described second user.
11. equipment according to claim 9, wherein said first user the activity of specific location with notify described second user side by side to carry out.
12. equipment according to claim 9 wherein is used to receive first user and comprises at the device of the activity of specific location: being used for described first user is the device of historical information in the active storage of specific location; And be used to notify described second user's device to comprise: the device that is used for described historical information is notified to described second user.
13. equipment according to claim 12, wherein said historical information is provided with the term of validity, if described historical information before the deadline, then described historical information is notified to described second user.
14. equipment according to claim 9 further comprises: be used for after receiving the activity of first user device of described activity being classified according to one of following manner: according to the class of activity with according to first user's classification in specific location.
15., wherein notify described second user: short message, map, Voice ﹠ Video in following at least a mode according to any described equipment among the claim 9-14.
16. according to any described equipment among the claim 9-14, wherein said first user comprises one or more in following in the activity of specific location: purchase, amusement, travelling and motion.
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