CN103365875A

CN103365875A - Method and device for providing contact object in current application

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Publication number: CN103365875A
Application number: CN2012100887656A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘畅
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2012-03-29
Filing date: 2012-03-29
Publication date: 2013-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 2032-03-29
Also published as: CN103365875B

Abstract

The invention aims to provide a method and a device for providing a contact object in current application. The method comprises steps of obtaining record relevant information of the contact object in the current application and the relevant application by obtaining the current application selected by a user; according to the record relevant information and combining with weighting information of the current application and the relevant application, performing weighting confirmation on heat information of the contact object; according to the heat information, providing the contact object for the user. Compared with the prior art, according to the record relevant information of the contact object in the current application and the relevant application, and combining with the weighting information of the current application and the relevant application, the weighting confirmation is performed on the heat information of the contact object, and further, the contact object is provided for the user according to the heat information. Therefore, the user can conveniently know about the heat information of the contact object, and usage experience of the user is improved.

Description

A kind of method and apparatus for contact object is provided in current application

Technical field

The present invention relates to Internet technical field, relate in particular to a kind of technology for contact object is provided in current application.

Background technology

Along with the develop rapidly of Internet technology, the application such as increasing instant communication software, social networks incorporate in the daily life.Each may comprise hundreds of contact object in using, and the frequency of utilization of these contact object then is uneven.

Thing followed problem is to face so numerous and diverse application, mutually the contact object of intersection covering, uneven frequency of utilization, how these contact object are carried out appropriate managerial, being convenient for people to when opening current application, the very first time is obtained the contact object that meets its expectation.

Therefore, how in the current application of user selection, the contact object in this current application is offered the user, become those skilled in the art and need one of problem of solution badly.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of method and apparatus for contact object is provided in current application.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of by the computer implemented method that contact object is provided in current application, wherein, the method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains user-selected current application;

B obtains the recording-related information of contact object in described current application and associated application thereof in the described current application;

C is according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting;

D offers described user according to described temperature information with described contact object.

According to a further aspect in the invention, also provide a kind of object of contact object that provides in current application that equipment is provided, wherein, this equipment may further comprise the steps:

Use deriving means, be used for obtaining user-selected current application;

Information acquisition device is used for obtaining the recording-related information of described current application contact object in described current application and associated application thereof;

Temperature is determined device, be used for according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting;

The object generator is used for according to described temperature information, and described contact object is offered described user.

Compared with prior art, the present invention is according to the recording-related information of the contact object in the current application of user selection in this current application and associated application thereof, and the weight information of this current application of combination and this associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting, further, according to described temperature information, described contact object is offered described user, make things convenient for the user to understand the temperature information of contact object, promoted user's experience.

Description of drawings

By reading the detailed description that non-limiting example is done of doing with reference to the following drawings, it is more obvious that other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become:

Fig. 1 illustrates the equipment synoptic diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object according to one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 2 illustrates the equipment synoptic diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 illustrates the method flow diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object according to a further aspect of the present invention;

Fig. 4 illustrates the method flow diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Same or analogous Reference numeral represents same or analogous parts in the accompanying drawing.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the present invention is described in further detail.

Fig. 1 illustrates the equipment synoptic diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object according to one aspect of the invention; Object provides equipment 1 to comprise to use deriving means 101, information acquisition device 102, temperature to determine device 103 and object generator 104.

At this, object provides equipment 1 to include but not limited to subscriber equipment or the network equipment.Described subscriber equipment and the described network equipment include a kind of can be according to the instruction of prior setting or storage, automatically carry out the electronic equipment of numerical evaluation and information processing, its hardware includes but not limited to microprocessor, special IC (ASIC), programmable gate array (FPGA), digital processing unit (DSP), embedded device etc.Described subscriber equipment includes but not limited to any electronic product that can carry out man-machine interaction by modes such as keyboard, mouse, telepilot, touch pad or voice-operated devices with the user, such as personal computer, smart mobile phone, PDA, game machine or IPTV etc.; The described network equipment includes but not limited to server group that single network server, a plurality of webserver form or based on the cloud that is made of a large amount of main frames or the webserver of cloud computing (Cloud Computing), wherein, cloud computing is a kind of of Distributed Calculation, a super virtual machine that is comprised of the loosely-coupled computing machine collection of a group.Wherein, described subscriber equipment or the residing network of the described network equipment include but not limited to internet, wide area network, Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), LAN (Local Area Network), VPN network etc.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the above-mentioned network equipment, subscriber equipment and network are only for giving an example; other network equipments existing or that may occur from now on, subscriber equipment or network are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

Wherein, use deriving means 101 and obtain user-selected current application.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, such as by click, long by or the mode such as paddling screen, selected an application, use the application programming interfaces (API) that deriving means 101 provides by calling this subscriber equipment, perhaps, by dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtain this user-selected current application.At this, use and to include but not limited to phone, note, mail, perhaps instant communication softwares such as little letter, MSN, QQ, HI, perhaps social networks such as happy net, everybody net, microblogging.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned application only for giving an example, and other application existing or that may occur from now on also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention as applicable to the present invention, and are contained in this at this with way of reference.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that also the above-mentioned mode of current application of obtaining is only for giving an example; other existing or modes of obtaining current application that may occur from now on are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

Information acquisition device 102 obtains the recording-related information of contact object in described current application and associated application thereof in the described current application.Particularly, information acquisition device 102 mode of obtaining recording-related information includes but not limited to:

1) current application of obtaining according to application deriving means 101, by in the application message storehouse, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain the associated application corresponding with this current application, such as according to the applying label of this current application, use the application message such as descriptor, the coupling acquisition associated application corresponding with this current application in the application message storehouse; Further, according to included contact object in this current application, in this current application and associated application, carry out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information of these contact object, such as direct acquisition record ordering information, perhaps, by in the access log storehouse, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information such as access frequency information, access times information of these contact object.

At this, associated application comprises the application that is associated with this current application, is phone such as current application, and then its corresponding associated application is note.

At this, store the mapping relations between the default application in this application message storehouse, these default mapping relations can be systemic presuppositions, also can be set by the user; Perhaps, store in this application message storehouse applying label, use the mapping relations of the application message such as descriptor and application.This application message storehouse both can be arranged in this object provides equipment 1, also can be arranged in the third party device that provides equipment 1 to be connected by network with this object.

2) current application of obtaining according to application deriving means 101, obtain the contact object in this current application, and then, according to this (etc.) contact object, determine to comprise equally this (etc.) application of contact object, with the associated application as this current application; Further, according to this (etc.) contact object, obtain should (etc.) recording-related information of contact object in this current application and associated application.

For example, the current application of supposing user selection is " phone ", comprising contact object a, b and c, information acquisition device 102 is according to above-mentioned contact object, in other application of this user, carry out matching inquiry, find to comprise in contact object a, " mail " in " little letter " to comprise contact object c then this information acquisition device 102 determines " little letter " and " mail " to be the associated application of being somebody's turn to do " phone "; Further, in " phone ", " little letter " and " mail ", carry out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information of contact object a, b and c.

Described recording-related information comprise following at least each:

The corresponding record ordering information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access frequency information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access times information of-described contact object.

At this, record ordering information obtains according to orderings such as phonetic, stroke, frequencies of utilization such as described contact object.Access frequency information for example can be determined according to the historical service time that use at access times and this contact object place of contact object, perhaps, determine according to this contact object access times within a predetermined period of time.Similarly, access times information also can be added up acquisition according to the accessed number of times of contact object within the historical service time that use at its place, perhaps, adds up acquisition according to the accessed number of times in the predetermined amount of time.

Information acquisition device 102 for example by carry out matching inquiry in the access log storehouse of current application or associated application, obtains above-mentioned recording-related information.This access log storehouse both can be arranged in this object provides equipment 1, also can be arranged in the third party device that provides equipment 1 to be connected by network with this object.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned recording-related information only for giving an example, and other recording-related information existing or that may occur from now on also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention as applicable to the present invention, and are contained in this at this with way of reference.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that also the above-mentioned mode of recording-related information of obtaining is only for giving an example; other existing or modes of obtaining recording-related information that may occur from now on are as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

Temperature is determined device 103 according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Particularly, temperature is determined the recording-related information that device 103 obtains according to this information acquisition device 102, such as the recording-related information such as corresponding record ordering information, access frequency information, access times information in this current application or associated application of the contact object in this current application, again in conjunction with the weight information of this current application and associated application, this recording-related information is weighted calculating, perhaps, quantized value to this recording-related information is weighted calculating, determine should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.At this, the weight information of this current application and associated application includes but not limited to that this temperature determines that device 103 is by coupling in the weight information storehouse is that obtain, default, the user sets or determine according to the association information of this current application and associated application.

For example, temperature determines that device 103 is according to the record ordering information of the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) the record ordering information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.As for contact object a, its record ordering information in current application A is 1, record ordering information in associated application B, C is respectively 5 and 10, and the weight information of using A, B, C is respectively 0.5,0.2 and 0.1, then temperature is determined device 103 by weighted calculation, and the temperature information that draws this contact object a is 1*0.5+5*0.2+10*0.1=2.5.At this, this record ordering information can directly be determined according to sorting position, is 1 such as sorting position, and then record ordering information is 1; Also can determine according to the sorting position conversion, as sorting position more before, corresponding record ordering information is larger.

Similar ground, temperature determines that device 103 is according to the record ordering information of the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) access frequency information or the access times information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Perhaps, temperature determines that device 103 is according to access frequency information or the access times information of the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) the record ordering information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that mode that above-mentioned weighting determines temperature information is only for for example; the mode that temperature information is determined in other weightings existing or that may occur from now on is as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

Object generator 104 offers described user according to described temperature information with described contact object.Particularly, object generator 104 according to this temperature determine device 103 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, in this current application, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.For example, object generator 104 is determined device 103 determined temperature information according to this temperature, determine should (etc.) priority of contact object, again according to this priority, in this current application, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.And for example, object generator 104 is determined device 103 determined temperature information according to this temperature, generate with this (etc.) the corresponding temperature information of contact object, temperature informations such as static, dynamic, literal, icon, sound, further, in this current application, this temperature information is offered this user with this contact object, browse for this user.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that the above-mentioned mode that contact object is offered the user is only for for example; other existing or may occur from now on the mode of contact object as applicable to the present invention; also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

At this, the present invention is according to the recording-related information of the contact object in the current application of user selection in this current application and associated application thereof, and the weight information of this current application of combination and this associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting, further, according to described temperature information, described contact object is offered described user, make things convenient for the user to understand the temperature information of contact object, promoted user's experience.

Preferably, described object generator 104 is determined the corresponding priority of described contact object according to described temperature information; According to described priority, described contact object is offered described user.Particularly, object generator 104 according to temperature determine device 103 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, determine the corresponding priority of described contact object, determine corresponding priority such as the size according to temperature information, the priority of larger then this contact object of temperature information is higher, otherwise the priority of less then this contact object of temperature information is lower; Further, this object generator 104 is according to described priority, in this current application, and by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.

At this, the present invention determines the corresponding priority of contact object according to temperature information, again according to this priority, should (etc.) contact object offers the user, promotes user's experience.

In a preferred embodiment, this object provides equipment 1 also to comprise prompting generating apparatus (not shown), and this prompting generating apparatus generates the temperature information corresponding with described contact object according to described temperature information; Subsequently, object generator 104 offers described user according to described temperature information with described contact object and described temperature information.Particularly, the prompting generating apparatus according to temperature determine device 103 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, directly generate the temperature information of correspondence; Perhaps, by in the temperature information bank, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain temperature information corresponding to temperature information, with as this (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.

At this, the temperature information include but not limited to static state, dynamically, the informations such as literal, icon, sound, such as the temperature bar etc., this temperature bar is such as showing different temperature information with differences such as color, length, thicknesses.

For example, temperature determines that the temperature information of contact object a, b in device 103 definite current application is respectively 5 and 7, then point out generating apparatus according to this temperature information 5, the length that generates correspondence is 5 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object a; According to this temperature information 7, the length that generates correspondence is 7 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object b.

At this, store the mapping relations between different temperature information and temperature information in this temperature information bank, this temperature information bank both can be arranged in this object provides equipment 1, also can be arranged in the third party device that provides equipment 1 to be connected by network with this object.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned temperature information only for giving an example, and other temperature informations existing or that may occur from now on also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention as applicable to the present invention, and are contained in this at this with way of reference.

Subsequently, described object generator 104 offers described user according to described temperature information with described contact object and described temperature information.Particularly, this object generator 104 according to should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, in this current application, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object is with pointing out the determined temperature information of generating apparatus to offer this user, confession this user browse.Connect example, the prompting generating apparatus is according to the temperature information 5 of the contact object a in the current application, and the length that generates correspondence is 5 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object a; Subsequently, object generator 104 is by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, be that 5 millimeters temperature bar offers this user with this contact object a with this length, as this temperature bar is presented at the right-hand of this contact object, browse for the user.Preferably, this object generator 104 according to should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, determine should (etc.) priority of contact object, further, in this current application, according to this priority, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user with the temperature information, browse for this user.

At this, the present invention is according to temperature information, generate with this (etc.) the corresponding temperature information of contact object, again according to this temperature information, should (etc.) contact object offers the user, makes the user when obtaining contact object, obtains how visual the intuitional and experiential thinking, make things convenient for the user to understand faster the temperature information of contact object, promote user's experience.

In a further advantageous embodiment, this object provides equipment 1 also to comprise the information updating apparatus (not shown), and this information updating apparatus obtains described user to the operation information of the contact object in the described current application; According to described operation information, upgrade the corresponding recording-related information of described contact object.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, for example by click, long pressing or the paddling screen, contact object in this current application has been carried out certain operation, the application programming interfaces (API) that information updating apparatus provides by calling this subscriber equipment, perhaps, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtain this user to the operation information of the contact object in this current application; Further, this information updating apparatus upgrades the corresponding recording-related information of described contact object according to this operation information.For example, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, revised the display Name of contact object a in the current application, as Xiao Zhang having been made into an xx, suppose that the contact object in this current application sorts according to phonetic, then information updating apparatus upgrades the record ordering information of this contact object according to this operation information.And for example, this user has accessed this contact object by clicking this contact object, and then information updating apparatus upgrades access frequency information, the access times information of this contact object according to this accessing operation.Preferably, temperature is determined the recording-related information after device 103 is according to this renewal, and in conjunction with the weight information of this current application and associated application, the temperature information of this contact object is determined in weighting.

At this, the present invention passes through the renewal to the recording-related information of contact object in the current application, again according to the recording-related information after upgrading, the temperature information of this contact object is determined in weighting, so that temperature information can constantly be upgraded according to user's operation, determining of temperature information is more accurate, real-time, has promoted user's experience.

Preferably, this object provides equipment 1 also to comprise the information provider unit (not shown), and this information provider unit obtains described user selected at least one contact object from described contact object; The corresponding application related information of described at least one contact object is offered described user.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, for example by click, long by or the paddling screen, in current application, offer in this user's the contact object and selected at least one contact object; The application programming interfaces (API) of information provider unit by calling this subscriber equipment, or by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtain this user selected at least one contact object from contact object; Subsequently, this information provider unit passes through matching inquiry, obtain the corresponding application related information of this at least one contact object, as connect each other between this user and this selecteed contact object employed application, should (etc.) use corresponding label, descriptor, this user and this contact object this (etc.) information such as historical record that connect each other in the application; Then, this information provider unit offers described user by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP with the corresponding application related information of described at least one contact object.

For example, suppose that current application is " microblogging ", the contact object that offers the user in this current application comprises a, b and c, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, selected contact object a, then information provider unit passes through matching inquiry, know that this contact object a and this user are often by " little letter ", " MSN " contact, then this information provider unit is by calling such as JSP, the dynamic web page technique such as ASP or PHP, should " microblogging ", the label information of " little letter " and " MSN " offers this user, further, the frequency that this contact object a and this user can also be connected each other by above-mentioned application, number of times or chat record etc., offer this user, browse for this user.

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned information provider unit and object generator only are example, and in practice, they can be two independently modules, also can be integrated in the module.

At this, the present invention offers this user according to the contact object of user selection with the corresponding application related information of this contact object, makes this user know the information of abundanter contact object, has promoted user's experience.

Fig. 2 illustrates the equipment synoptic diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Temperature determines that device 203 comprises weight determining unit 2031 and temperature computing unit 2032.Referring to Fig. 2 the preferred embodiment is described: particularly, use deriving means 201 and obtain user-selected current application; Information acquisition device 202 obtains the recording-related information of contact object in described current application and associated application thereof in the described current application; Weight determining unit 2031 is determined the weight information of described current application and described associated application; Temperature computing unit 2032 is according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting; Object generator 204 offers described user according to described temperature information with described contact object.Wherein, use deriving means 201, information acquisition device 202 is identical with corresponding intrument shown in Figure 1 or basic identical respectively with object generator 204, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

Wherein, weight determining unit 2031 is determined the weight information of described current application and described associated application; Temperature computing unit 2032 is according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Particularly, weight determining unit 2031 determines that the mode of weight information includes but not limited to:

1) by in the weight information storehouse, carrying out matching inquiry, obtains the weight information of this current application and associated application.At this, store in this weight information storehouse and respectively use corresponding weight information, it for example can be the weight information of systemic presupposition; This weight information storehouse both can be arranged in this object provides equipment 1, also can be arranged in the third party device that provides equipment 1 to be connected by network with this object.

2) according to the association information of this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.

3) according to the application configuration information of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.

4) the association information of this current application of basis and this associated application, and in conjunction with the application configuration information of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.

Subsequently, this temperature computing unit 2032 according to should (etc.) recording-related information of contact object in this current application and associated application thereof, again in conjunction with the weight information of this current application and associated application, this recording-related information is weighted calculating, perhaps, quantized value to this recording-related information is weighted calculating, determine should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.

Preferably, described weight determining unit 2031 is determined the weight information of described current application and described associated application according to the association information of described current application and described associated application; Wherein, described association information comprise following at least each:

The corresponding use record of-described current application and described associated application;

The degree of association of-described current application and described associated application;

Record is used in the corresponding application of-described contact object.

Particularly, weight determining unit 2031 is by carrying out matching inquiry in the application message storehouse, obtain this current association information that is applied to associated application, such as the degree of association of the corresponding use record of this current application and this associated application, this current application and this associated application, should (etc.) the association information such as the corresponding application use of contact object record, and then, according to above-mentioned a kind of or comprehensive any multiple association information, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.

For example, suppose that current application is " phone ", its access times are 500 times, the access times of corresponding associated application " mail " are that 200 times, the access times of " little letter " are 300 times, because the weight information summation is 1, determine respectively that then this current application " phone " is respectively 0.5,0.2 and 0.3 with corresponding associated application " mail " and the weight information of " little letter ".

And for example, suppose no matter current application why, its corresponding weight information is 0.5, its corresponding associated application is then according to the use record of correspondence, determine respectively corresponding weight information, be that 100 times, the access times of " microblogging " are that 100 times, the access times of " little letter " are 300 times such as the access times of the associated application " mail " of correspondence, then the weight information of associated application " mail ", " microblogging ", " little letter " is respectively 0.1,0.1 and 0.3.

Weight determining unit 2031 can also according to the degree of association of current application and associated application, be determined the weight information of this current application and this associated application.For example, the degree of association of associated application and current application is higher, and its corresponding weight information is larger, as suppose that current application is " phone ", then associated application " note " is with respect to " microblogging ", and higher with the degree of association of this current application, its corresponding weight information is larger.

Weight determining unit 2031 can also be used record according to the corresponding application of described contact object, determines the weight information of this current application and this associated application.At this, the corresponding application of contact object uses record to include but not limited to frequency, the number of times of the employed application of this contact object, connects the records such as frequency, number of times of employed application between the user of this contact object and this current application of use each other.For example, suppose that current application is " phone ", comprise contact object a in this current application, associated application comprises " note ", " microblogging ", this contact object a uses frequency, the number of times of " microblogging " higher, and perhaps, the frequency, the number of times that connect use " microblogging " between this contact object a and this user each other are higher, then, the weight information of this associated application " microblogging " is larger than the weight information of " note ".

Those skilled in the art will be understood that above-mentioned association information only for giving an example, and other association information existing or that may occur from now on also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention as applicable to the present invention, and are contained in this at this with way of reference.

At this, the present invention is according to the association information of current application and associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, further, in conjunction with this weight information, the temperature information of contact object is determined in weighting, so that determining of temperature information is more accurate, promotes user's experience.

Preferably, described weight determining unit 2031 is determined the weight information of described current application and described associated application according to the application configuration information of described user to described current application and described associated application.Particularly, the user can arrange corresponding application configuration information to this current application and associated application, as the weight configuration information of this current application and associated application is set, or the preference setting to this current application and associated application is set; Weight determining unit 2031 is according to the application configuration information of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, as directly obtaining this user to the set weight configuration information of this current application and associated application, weight information as this current application and associated application, perhaps, in conjunction with the preference setting of this user to this current application and associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.For example, weight determining unit 2031 is according to the association information of this current application and this associated application, and in conjunction with the preference setting of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, as in the current application situation identical with the association information of associated application, this user arranges its preference current application, and then the weight information of this current application is larger.

At this, the present invention is according to the application configuration information of user to current application and associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, further, in conjunction with this weight information, the temperature information of contact object is determined in weighting, so that the demand of determining more to meet the user of temperature information, lifting user's experience.

Fig. 3 illustrates the method flow diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object according to a further aspect of the present invention.

In step S301, object provides equipment 1 to obtain user-selected current application.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, such as by click, long by or the mode such as paddling screen, selected an application, in step S301, the application programming interfaces (API) that object provides equipment 1 to provide by calling this subscriber equipment, perhaps, by dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtain this user-selected current application.At this, use and to include but not limited to phone, note, mail, perhaps instant communication softwares such as little letter, MSN, QQ, HI, perhaps social networks such as happy net, everybody net, microblogging.

In step S302, object provides equipment 1 to obtain the recording-related information of contact object in described current application and associated application thereof in the described current application.Particularly, in step S302, the mode that object provides equipment 1 to obtain recording-related information includes but not limited to:

1) according to the current application of in step S301, obtaining, by in the application message storehouse, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain the associated application corresponding with this current application, such as according to the applying label of this current application, use the application message such as descriptor, the coupling acquisition associated application corresponding with this current application in the application message storehouse; Further, according to included contact object in this current application, in this current application and associated application, carry out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information of these contact object, such as direct acquisition record ordering information, perhaps, by in the access log storehouse, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information such as access frequency information, access times information of these contact object.

2) according to the current application in step S301, obtained, obtain the contact object in this current application, and then, according to this (etc.) contact object, determine to comprise equally this (etc.) application of contact object, with the associated application as this current application; Further, according to this (etc.) contact object, obtain should (etc.) recording-related information of contact object in this current application and associated application.

For example, the current application of supposing user selection is " phone ", comprising contact object a, b and c, in step S302, object provides equipment 1 according to above-mentioned contact object, carries out matching inquiry in other application of this user, finds to comprise in contact object a, " mail " in " little letter " to comprise contact object c, then in step S302, it should " little letter " and " mail " be the associated application of being somebody's turn to do " phone " that object provides equipment 1 to determine; Further, in " phone ", " little letter " and " mail ", carry out matching inquiry, obtain the recording-related information of contact object a, b and c.

Described recording-related information comprise following at least each:

The corresponding record ordering information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access frequency information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access times information of-described contact object.

In step S302, object provides equipment 1 for example by carry out matching inquiry in the access log storehouse of current application or associated application, obtains above-mentioned recording-related information.This access log storehouse both can be arranged in this object provides equipment 1, also can be arranged in the third party device that provides equipment 1 to be connected by network with this object.

In step S303, object provides equipment 1 according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Particularly, in step S303, object provides equipment 1 according to the recording-related information of obtaining in step S302, such as the recording-related information such as corresponding record ordering information, access frequency information, access times information in this current application or associated application of the contact object in this current application, again in conjunction with the weight information of this current application and associated application, this recording-related information is weighted calculating, perhaps, quantized value to this recording-related information is weighted calculating, determine should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.At this, the weight information of this current application and associated application includes but not limited to that this object provides equipment 1 by coupling in the weight information storehouse is that obtain, default, the user sets or determine according to the association information of this current application and associated application.

For example, in step S303, object provides the record ordering information of equipment 1 according to the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) the record ordering information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.As for contact object a, its record ordering information in current application A is 1, record ordering information in associated application B, C is respectively 5 and 10, and the weight information of using A, B, C is respectively 0.5,0.2 and 0.1, then in step S303, object provides equipment 1 by weighted calculation, and the temperature information that draws this contact object a is 1*0.5+5*0.2+10*0.1=2.5.At this, this record ordering information can directly be determined according to sorting position, is 1 such as sorting position, and then record ordering information is 1; Also can determine according to the sorting position conversion, as sorting position more before, corresponding record ordering information is larger.

Similar ground, in step S303, object provides the record ordering information of equipment 1 according to the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) access frequency information or the access times information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Perhaps, in step S303, object provides access frequency information or the access times information of equipment 1 according to the contact object in the current application, again in conjunction with should (etc.) the record ordering information of contact object in associated application, and in conjunction with the weight information of described current application and described associated application, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.

In step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, and described contact object is offered described user.Particularly, in step S304, object provide equipment 1 according in step S303 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, in this current application, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.For example, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to determined temperature information in step S303, determine should (etc.) priority of contact object, again according to this priority, in this current application, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.And for example, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to determined temperature information in step S303, generate with this (etc.) the corresponding temperature information of contact object, temperature informations such as static, dynamic, literal, icon, sound, further, in this current application, this temperature information is offered this user with this contact object, browse for this user.

Preferably, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, determines the corresponding priority of described contact object; According to described priority, described contact object is offered described user.Particularly, in step S304, object provide equipment 1 according in step S303 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, determine the corresponding priority of described contact object, determine corresponding priority such as the size according to temperature information, the priority of larger then this contact object of temperature information is higher, otherwise the priority of less then this contact object of temperature information is lower; Further, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to described priority, in this current application, and by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user, browse for this user.

In a preferred embodiment, the method also comprises step S305 (not shown), and in step S305, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, generates the temperature information corresponding with described contact object; Subsequently, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, and described contact object and described temperature information are offered described user.Particularly, in step S305, object provide equipment 1 according in step S303 determined should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, directly generate the temperature information of correspondence; Perhaps, by in the temperature information bank, carrying out matching inquiry, obtain temperature information corresponding to temperature information, with as this (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.

For example, in step S303, object provides equipment 1 to determine that the temperature information of contact object a, b in the current application is respectively 5 and 7, then in step S305, object provides equipment 1 according to this temperature information 5, the length that generates correspondence is 5 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object a; According to this temperature information 7, the length that generates correspondence is 7 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object b.

Subsequently, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, and described contact object and described temperature information are offered described user.Particularly, in step S304, object provide equipment 1 according to should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, in this current application, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user with determined temperature information in step S305, browse for this user.Connect example, in step S305, object provides the temperature information 5 of equipment 1 according to the contact object a in the current application, and the length that generates correspondence is 5 millimeters temperature bar, with the temperature information as this contact object a; Subsequently, in step S304, object provides equipment 1 by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, is that 5 millimeters temperature bar offers this user with this contact object a with this length, as this temperature bar is presented at the right-hand of this contact object, browse for the user.Preferably, in step S304, object provide equipment 1 according to should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object, determine should (etc.) priority of contact object, further, in this current application, according to this priority, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, should (etc.) contact object offers this user with the temperature information, browse for this user.

In a further advantageous embodiment, the method also comprises step S306 (not shown), and in step S306, object provides equipment 1 to obtain described user to the operation information of the contact object in the described current application; According to described operation information, upgrade the corresponding recording-related information of described contact object.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, for example by click, long pressing or the paddling screen, contact object in this current application has been carried out certain operation, in step S306, the application programming interfaces (API) that object provides equipment 1 to provide by calling this subscriber equipment, perhaps, by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtain this user to the operation information of the contact object in this current application; Further, in step S306, object provides equipment 1 according to this operation information, upgrades the corresponding recording-related information of described contact object.For example, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, revised the display Name of contact object a in the current application, as Xiao Zhang having been made into an xx, suppose that the contact object in this current application sorts according to phonetic, then in step S306, object provides equipment 1 according to this operation information, upgrades the record ordering information of this contact object.And for example, this user has accessed this contact object by clicking this contact object, and then in step S306, object provides equipment 1 according to this accessing operation, upgrades access frequency information, the access times information of this contact object.Preferably, in step S303, the recording-related information after object provides equipment 1 according to this renewal, and the weight information of this current application of combination and associated application, the temperature information of this contact object is determined in weighting.

Preferably, the method also comprises step S307 (not shown), and in step S307, object provides equipment 1 to obtain described user selected at least one contact object from described contact object; The corresponding application related information of described at least one contact object is offered described user.Particularly, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, for example by click, long by or the paddling screen, in current application, offer in this user's the contact object and selected at least one contact object; In step S307, object provides the application programming interfaces (API) of equipment 1 by calling this subscriber equipment, or by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, obtains this user selected at least one contact object from contact object; Subsequently, in step S307, object provides equipment 1 to pass through matching inquiry, obtain the corresponding application related information of this at least one contact object, as connect each other between this user and this selecteed contact object employed application, should (etc.) use corresponding label, descriptor, this user and this contact object this (etc.) information such as historical record that connect each other in the application; Then, in step S307, object provides equipment 1 by calling dynamic web page techniques such as JSP, ASP or PHP, and the corresponding application related information of described at least one contact object is offered described user.

For example, suppose that current application is " microblogging ", the contact object that offers the user in this current application comprises a, b and c, mutual by with subscriber equipment of user, selected contact object a, then in step S307, object provides equipment 1 to pass through matching inquiry, know that this contact object a and this user are often by " little letter ", " MSN " contact, then in step S307, object provides equipment 1 by calling such as JSP, the dynamic web page technique such as ASP or PHP, should " microblogging ", the label information of " little letter " and " MSN " offers this user, further, and the frequency that this contact object a and this user can also be connected each other by above-mentioned application, number of times or chat record etc., offer this user, browse for this user.

Fig. 4 illustrates the method flow diagram that is used for providing in current application contact object in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Step S403 comprises substep S4031 and S4032.Referring to Fig. 4 the preferred embodiment is described: particularly, in step S401, object provides equipment 1 to obtain user-selected current application; In step S402, object provides equipment 1 to obtain the recording-related information of contact object in described current application and associated application thereof in the described current application; In substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 to determine the weight information of described current application and described associated application; In substep S4032, object provides equipment 1 according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting; In step S404, object provides equipment 1 according to described temperature information, and described contact object is offered described user.Wherein, step S401, S402 are identical or basic identical with corresponding step shown in Figure 3 respectively with S404, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

In substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 to determine the weight information of described current application and described associated application; In substep S4032, object provides equipment 1 according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.Particularly, in substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 to determine that the mode of weight information includes but not limited to:

Subsequently, in substep S4032, object provide equipment 1 according to should (etc.) recording-related information of contact object in this current application and associated application thereof, again in conjunction with the weight information of this current application and associated application, this recording-related information is weighted calculating, perhaps, the quantized value of this recording-related information is weighted calculating, determine should (etc.) the temperature information of contact object.

Preferably, in substep S4031, object provides the association information of equipment 1 according to described current application and described associated application, determines the weight information of described current application and described associated application; Wherein, described association information comprise following at least each:

Record is used in the corresponding application of-described contact object.

Particularly, in substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 by carry out matching inquiry in the application message storehouse, obtain this current association information that is applied to associated application, such as the degree of association of the corresponding use record of this current application and this associated application, this current application and this associated application, should (etc.) the association information such as the corresponding application use of contact object record, and then, according to above-mentioned a kind of or comprehensive any multiple association information, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.

In substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 according to the degree of association of current application and associated application, to determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.For example, the degree of association of associated application and current application is higher, and its corresponding weight information is larger, as suppose that current application is " phone ", then associated application " note " is with respect to " microblogging ", and higher with the degree of association of this current application, its corresponding weight information is larger.

In substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 to use record according to the corresponding application of described contact object, determines the weight information of this current application and this associated application.At this, the corresponding application of contact object uses record to include but not limited to frequency, the number of times of the employed application of this contact object, connects the records such as frequency, number of times of employed application between the user of this contact object and this current application of use each other.For example, suppose that current application is " phone ", comprise contact object a in this current application, associated application comprises " note ", " microblogging ", this contact object a uses frequency, the number of times of " microblogging " higher, and perhaps, the frequency, the number of times that connect use " microblogging " between this contact object a and this user each other are higher, then, the weight information of this associated application " microblogging " is larger than the weight information of " note ".

Preferably, in substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 according to the application configuration information of described user to described current application and described associated application, determines the weight information of described current application and described associated application.Particularly, the user can arrange corresponding application configuration information to this current application and associated application, as the weight configuration information of this current application and associated application is set, or the preference setting to this current application and associated application is set; In substep S4031, object provides equipment 1 according to the application configuration information of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, as directly obtaining this user to the set weight configuration information of this current application and associated application, weight information as this current application and associated application, perhaps, in conjunction with the preference setting of this user to this current application and associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application.For example, in substep S4031, object provides the association information of equipment 1 according to this current application and this associated application, and in conjunction with the preference setting of this user to this current application and this associated application, determine the weight information of this current application and this associated application, as in the current application situation identical with the association information of associated application, this user arranges its preference current application, and then the weight information of this current application is larger.

Software program of the present invention can carry out to realize step mentioned above or function by processor.Similarly, software program of the present invention (comprising relevant data structure) can be stored in the computer readable recording medium storing program for performing, for example, and RAM storer, magnetic or CD-ROM driver or flexible plastic disc and similar devices.In addition, steps more of the present invention or function can adopt hardware to realize, for example, thereby as cooperate the circuit of carrying out each function or step with processor.

In addition, a part of the present invention can be applied to computer program, and for example computer program instructions when it is carried out by computing machine, by the operation of this computing machine, can call or provide the method according to this invention and/or technical scheme.And call the programmed instruction of method of the present invention, may be stored in fixing or movably in the recording medium, and/or be transmitted by the data stream in broadcasting or other signal bearing medias, and/or be stored in the working storage according to the computer equipment of described programmed instruction operation.At this, comprise according to one embodiment of present invention a device, this device comprises for the storer of storage computer program instructions and is used for the processor of execution of program instructions, wherein, when this computer program instructions is carried out by this processor, trigger this device operation based on aforementioned method according to a plurality of embodiment of the present invention and/or technical scheme.

To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned example embodiment, and in the situation that does not deviate from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, can realize the present invention with other concrete form.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should regard embodiment as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims rather than above-mentioned explanation, therefore is intended to be included in the present invention dropping on the implication that is equal to important document of claim and all changes in the scope.Any Reference numeral in the claim should be considered as limit related claim.In addition, obviously other unit or step do not got rid of in " comprising " word, and odd number is not got rid of plural number.A plurality of unit of stating in the device claim or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.The first, the second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

Claims

1. one kind by the computer implemented method that contact object is provided in current application, and wherein, the method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains user-selected current application;

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step c comprises:

C1 determines the weight information of described current application and described associated application;

C2 is according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.

3. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step c1 comprises:

-according to the association information of described current application and described associated application, determine the weight information of described current application and described associated application;

Wherein, described association information comprise following at least each:

Record is used in the corresponding application of-described contact object.

4. according to claim 2 or 3 described methods, wherein, described step c1 comprises:

-according to the application configuration information of described user to described current application and described associated application, determine the weight information of described current application and described associated application.

5. each described method in 4 according to claim 1, wherein, described steps d comprises:

-according to described temperature information, determine the corresponding priority of described contact object;

-according to described priority, described contact object is offered described user.

6. each described method in 5 according to claim 1, wherein, the method also comprises:

-according to described temperature information, generate the temperature information corresponding with described contact object;

Wherein, described steps d comprises:

-according to described temperature information, described contact object and described temperature information are offered described user.

7. each described method in 6 according to claim 1, wherein, the method also comprises:

-obtain described user to the operation information of the contact object in the described current application;

-according to described operation information, upgrade the corresponding recording-related information of described contact object.

8. each described method in 7 according to claim 1, wherein, described recording-related information comprise following at least each:

The corresponding record ordering information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access frequency information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access times information of-described contact object.

9. each described method in 8 according to claim 1, wherein, the method also comprises:

-obtain described user selected at least one contact object from described contact object;

-the corresponding application related information of described at least one contact object is offered described user.

10. one kind provides the object of contact object that equipment is provided in current application, and wherein, this equipment may further comprise the steps:

Use deriving means, be used for obtaining user-selected current application;

11. object according to claim 10 provides equipment, wherein, described temperature determines that device comprises:

The weight determining unit is for the weight information of determining described current application and described associated application;

The temperature computing unit be used for according to described recording-related information, and in conjunction with described weight information, the temperature information of described contact object is determined in weighting.

12. object according to claim 11 provides equipment, wherein, described weight determining unit is used for:

Wherein, described association information comprise following at least each:

Record is used in the corresponding application of-described contact object.

13. according to claim 11 or 12 described objects equipment is provided, wherein, described weight determining unit is used for:

14. each described object provides equipment in 13 according to claim 10, wherein, described object generator is used for:

15. each described object provides equipment in 14 according to claim 10, wherein, this equipment also comprises:

The prompting generating apparatus is used for according to described temperature information, generates the temperature information corresponding with described contact object;

Wherein, described object generator is used for:

16. each described object provides equipment in 15 according to claim 10, wherein, this equipment also comprises information updating apparatus, is used for:

17. each described object provides equipment in 16 according to claim 10, wherein, described recording-related information comprise following at least each:

The corresponding record ordering information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access frequency information of-described contact object;

The corresponding access times information of-described contact object.

18. each described object provides equipment in 17 according to claim 10, wherein, this equipment also comprises information provider unit, is used for: