CN106488530A

CN106488530A - Presentation of information and sending method, focus cut-in method and system

Info

Publication number: CN106488530A
Application number: CN201510532103.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 方霞
Original assignee: ZTE Corp
Current assignee: ZTE Corp
Priority date: 2015-08-26
Filing date: 2015-08-26
Publication date: 2017-03-08
Also published as: WO2017032065A1

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of presentation of information and sending method, focus cut-in method and system.Wherein, the display methods of the hot information includes：The corresponding extension information of one or more hotspot is obtained, wherein, the corresponding extension information of each hotspot includes at least one of：The maximum data transfer rate that the positional information of hotspot, hotspot are allowed, permission access the maximum access quantity of hotspot, are currently accessed accessing number, accessing the pay imformation of hotspot for hotspot；Show the corresponding extension information of the one or more hotspot for obtaining.The present invention solves user when focus is selected using existing mode, due to can foundation information content limited, lead to not select the technical problem of suitable focus.

Description

Information display and sending method, hotspot access method and system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of communication, in particular to an information display and sending method, a hotspot access method and a hotspot access system.

Background

As WiFi hotspots become more prevalent, there are more WiFi hotspots available in public.

At present, all products with Internet WiFi function in the market can scan only the basic information in the hot spot information, including: a Service Set Identifier (SSID) name, a Media Access Control (MAC) address, an encryption scheme, and signal strength.

However, when the user selects the hot spot in the above manner, the amount of information that can be relied upon is limited, so that a suitable hot spot cannot be selected.

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

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an information display and transmission method, a hotspot access method and a hotspot access system, which at least solve the technical problem that when a user selects a hotspot in the existing mode, the proper hotspot cannot be selected due to the fact that the amount of information which can be relied on is limited.

According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying information, including: acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, wherein the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

Further, displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots includes at least one of: when the extended information contains the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, adding a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and displaying the charging information which is added with the identifier and corresponds to one or more wireless hotspots; when the extended information contains the position information of the wireless hotspots, virtually obtaining distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots in a preset area according to the position information of the wireless hotspots, and displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots; when the extension information includes at least one of: when any one of the one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display box.

Further, when displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, the display method further includes: virtually simulating the position of the client in the preset area according to the position information of the client; and displaying the virtualized position of the client.

Further, acquiring the extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots includes one of: receiving broadcast messages of the one or more wireless hotspots, and extracting corresponding extended information from the received broadcast messages; and sending a request command for requesting the extended information to the one or more wireless hotspots, receiving a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command, and extracting the corresponding extended information from the received response message.

Further, when obtaining the extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, the display method further includes: acquiring basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, wherein the basic information comprises: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified; when the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed, the display method further includes: and displaying the acquired basic information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a hotspot access method, including: acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, wherein the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot; and accessing the determined target hot spot.

Further, before determining the target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, the access method further includes: displaying the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, and determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes: receiving a selection command for selecting the target hotspot input according to the displayed extended information; and determining the target hot spot according to the selection command.

According to an aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an information sending method, including: determining extension information of a wireless hotspot corresponding to a wireless hotspot device, wherein the extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and sending the determined extended information to a client in a broadcast message or response message mode, wherein the client is used for displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a client, including: the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a processing unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, and the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and the display unit is used for displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

Further, the display unit includes at least one of: a first display module, configured to add a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot when the extended information includes the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and display the charging information to which the identifier is added, corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots; a second display module, configured to virtually obtain distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots in a preset area according to the location information of the wireless hotspots when the extended information includes the location information of the wireless hotspots, and display the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots; a third display module, configured to, when the extended information includes at least one of: when any one of the one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display box.

Further, the display unit further includes: the virtual module is used for virtually simulating the position of the client in the preset area according to the position information of the client when displaying the virtual distribution position corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots; and the fourth display module is used for displaying the self position of the virtualized client.

Further, the acquiring unit includes: the first receiving module is used for receiving the broadcast messages of the one or more wireless hotspots; first extraction module for extract corresponding above-mentioned extension information in the above-mentioned broadcast message that receives, perhaps, above-mentioned acquisition unit includes: a sending module, configured to send a request command for requesting the extended information to the one or more wireless hotspots; a second receiving module, configured to receive a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command; and the second extraction module is used for extracting the corresponding extension information from the received response message.

Further, the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots when obtaining extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the basic information includes: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified; the display unit is further configured to display the basic information corresponding to the acquired one or more wireless hotspots when displaying the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a client, including: the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a processing unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, and the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; a first determining unit, configured to determine a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot; and the access unit is used for accessing the determined target hotspot.

Further, the client further includes: a display unit, configured to display the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots before determining the target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, where the first determining unit includes: a third receiving module, configured to receive a selection command for selecting the target hotspot, where the selection command is input according to the displayed extended information; and the determining module is used for determining the target hotspot according to the selection command.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a hotspot device, including: a second determining unit, configured to determine extension information of a wireless hotspot corresponding to a wireless hotspot device, where the extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device includes at least one of the following: the position information of the wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, wherein the hotspot device further comprises: the broadcast unit is used for sending the determined extended information to the client in a broadcast message mode; and the response unit is used for issuing the determined extension information to a client in a response message mode, wherein the client is used for displaying the acquired extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot equipment.

Further, corresponding to the extension information, the hotspot device further includes at least one of: a location information acquiring unit, configured to acquire the location information of the wireless hotspot; a transmission rate obtaining unit, configured to obtain a maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot; an access number obtaining unit, configured to obtain the maximum access number of the allowed access wireless hotspot and/or the access number of the currently accessed wireless hotspot; and the charging information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the charging information of the access wireless hotspot.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a hotspot access system, including: one or more wireless hotspot devices, configured to issue, to a client, broadcast messages or response messages of respective corresponding wireless hotspots, where each broadcast message or response message carries extension information of a corresponding wireless hotspot, where the extension information includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and the client is used for acquiring the extension information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots from the broadcast message or the response message, determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, and accessing the determined target hotspot.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a manner of expanding original hotspot information is adopted, and expansion information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots is obtained, wherein the expansion information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed, the purpose of extending hotspot information is achieved, the technical effect of increasing the information quantity of information according to which a user selects hotspots is achieved, and the technical problem that when the user selects hotspots in the existing mode, due to the fact that the information quantity which can be according to is limited, a proper hotspot cannot be selected is solved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an alternative hotspot access system according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 2 is a diagram of an optional broadcast frame extension field broadcast message according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an alternative information display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative display manner of hot spot information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of an alternative hotspot access method according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a flow chart of an alternative method of sending information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an alternative client according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an alternative wireless router hotspot and client interaction flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Example 1

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an embodiment of an apparatus for a hotspot access system is provided.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an alternative hotspot access system according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the system includes: one or more wireless hotspot devices 102 and a client 104.

The wireless hotspot device may provide the client 104 with the basis information, i.e., hotspot information, for selecting a corresponding target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspot devices 102. Further, the hotspot information includes: basic information and extended information. The basic information includes: SSID of the wireless hotspot, encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and signal strength information of the wireless hotspot; the extension information may include at least one of: the position information of the wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot, the charging information of the access wireless hotspot and the like.

One or more wireless hotspot devices 102 are configured to issue, to a client, broadcast messages or response messages of respective corresponding wireless hotspots, where each broadcast message or response message carries extension information of a corresponding wireless hotspot, where the extension information includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and the client is used for acquiring the extension information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots from the broadcast message or the response message, determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, and accessing the determined target hotspot. That is, in implementation, each wireless hotspot may provide its own extended information to the client in various ways, for example, an active broadcast way and a passive response way.

The access process adopting the active broadcast mode is as follows: one or more wireless hotspots 102 broadcast respective broadcast messages to the client, wherein each broadcast message carries extension information of a corresponding wireless hotspot; the client 104 acquires the extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots from the received broadcast message, and determines a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, and accesses the determined target hotspot.

Specifically, the wireless hotspot may broadcast information such as its location, an allowed maximum data transmission rate, a current access number, an allowed maximum access number, and a charging condition of accessing the wireless hotspot in an extension field of a broadcast frame, so as to be referred to when the client selects the hotspot. For example, as shown in fig. 2, the structure of a broadcast message (e.g., beacon message) may include: beacon body, extension field and FCS, wherein the extension field may include: location information, maximum/current access number, maximum allowed data transfer rate and charging information.

The access process using the passive response mode is as follows: after receiving a request command for requesting extended information sent by a client, one or more wireless hotspots 102 feed back respective response messages to the client according to the request command, wherein the response messages carry the extended information of the corresponding wireless hotspots; the client 104 acquires the extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots from the received response message, and determines a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, and accesses the determined target hotspot.

In this way, the wireless hotspot may also issue information such as its own location, an allowed maximum data transmission rate, a current access number, an allowed maximum access number, and a charging condition of accessing the wireless hotspot in an extension field of the broadcast frame for the client to refer to when selecting the hotspot. For example, as shown in fig. 2, the structure of a broadcast message (e.g., beacon message) may include: beacon body, extension field and FCS, wherein the extension field may include: location information, maximum/current access number, maximum allowed data transfer rate and charging information.

In addition, the client 104 may be a client with a WiFi module, such as a mobile phone or a tablet computer; the wireless hotspot device may be a wireless router. The wireless router mainly comprises four functional modules, which are respectively: the system comprises a main control subsystem, a network side transceiving subsystem, a positioning module and a WiFi transceiving subsystem. The main control subsystem is used for managing a unified control element of subsystems such as a network side, WiFi and GPS and the like and is used for completing data routing; the network side receiving and transmitting system is used for providing a data connection function and controlling a network system, charging conditions and the like; the positioning module is mainly used for acquiring and analyzing position information; the WiFi transceiving subsystem is used for establishing a WiFi personal hotspot so as to access other WiFi devices (such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer and the like) into the personal hotspot.

Through the embodiment, when the client acquires the hotspot information of the wireless hotspot, the client can acquire the information such as the SSID added with the corresponding hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot, the signal strength of the wireless hotspot and the like, and can add the extended information on the basis, and the client can vividly display the information to a user. Therefore, in an application scene with more public hotspots, a user can be helped to select a required hotspot.

Example 2

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method embodiment of an information display method, it being noted that the steps illustrated in the flowchart of the figure may be performed in a computer system such as a set of computer-executable instructions and that, although a logical order is illustrated in the flowchart, in some cases, the steps illustrated or described may be performed in an order different than presented herein.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of an alternative information display method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the method includes the following steps:

step S302, obtaining extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

and step S304, displaying the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

The extended information includes, but is not limited to, the above information, for example, the extended information may further include information on whether to open a black and white list function, and the like. If the white list function is started, only the users recorded in the white list have the right to access the corresponding wireless hotspots; and starting the blacklist function, and accessing the user recorded in the blacklist to the corresponding wireless hotspot without permission.

In implementation, when the client acquires the extension information, the client may perform the following processing according to the characteristics of various extension information: (1) the position of the user and the distribution position of each wireless hot spot can be virtualized according to the position information of the wireless hot spots and displayed to the user, and the user can display the azimuth information in the result and the magnitude of the signal quantity of each wireless hot spot and move towards the relevant direction to obtain the hot spot with better signals; (2) the user can select the interested hotspots on the client, and the device can pop up the related information of the hotspots after selection, at the moment, the user can check the current access number of each wireless hotspot and the maximum access number allowed to be accessed to each wireless hotspot, and judge the service condition of the hotspots according to the current access number of each wireless hotspot and the maximum access number allowed to be accessed to each wireless hotspot, so as to avoid the hotspots which are piled by the user; (3) the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot is displayed to a user, at the moment, if the user wants to use high-speed service, the user can judge according to the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot and the current access number of the accessed wireless hotspot, and if all the users download at high speed, the available rate is the ratio of the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot to the current access number of the accessed wireless hotspot; (4) the charging status of each wireless hotspot is displayed to the user, for example, if the hotspot is a free hotspot, the icon for indicating the signal strength of the hotspot can be distinguished by using a color identifier or other marks, which is one of the characteristics most concerned by the user. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the hotspot for SSID2 is shown as a free hotspot in green (not shown).

In the embodiment of the invention, the original hot spot information (namely the basic information of the hot spot information) is expanded, so that the aim of increasing the expanded information in the hot spot information is fulfilled, the technical effect of increasing the information quantity of the information according to which a user selects the hot spot is realized, and the technical problem that the user cannot select a proper hot spot due to the limited information quantity which can be according to when the user selects the hot spot by using the conventional mode is further solved.

Optionally, displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots includes at least one of:

s2, when the extended information contains the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, adding a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and displaying the charging information added with the identifier corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots; as shown in fig. 4, a color identifier may be added to the charging information to facilitate user identification.

S4, when the extended information contains the position information of the wireless hot spot, virtually displaying the distribution position of one or more wireless hot spots in a preset area according to the position information of the wireless hot spot, and displaying the virtual distribution position corresponding to the one or more wireless hot spots; therefore, the user can select the hot spots meeting the self requirements nearby according to the position of the user.

S6, when the extension information includes at least one of: when any one of one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display frame. The information is displayed in a dialog box mode, so that the display layout can be saved, and the defect of complicated information caused by directly displaying the information is avoided.

For example, after receiving the hotspot information, the terminal device with the interface may visually display the hotspot information on the interface, as shown in fig. 4, the display information may include an SSID name, a color may indicate whether the hotspot is charged, and a thickness of a signal icon may indicate a strength of the signal. After the hotspot is selected, more detailed information of the hotspot may be displayed to the user.

Further optionally, when displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, the display method further includes:

s8, virtually obtaining the position of the client in the preset area according to the position information of the client;

and S10, displaying the self position of the virtualized client.

Therefore, the user can display the azimuth information in the result and move the magnitude of the signal quantity of each wireless hotspot to the relevant direction to obtain the hotspot with better signal.

Optionally, the obtaining of the extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots includes, but is not limited to, one of the following steps:

s12, receiving broadcast messages of one or more wireless hotspots, and extracting corresponding extended information from the received broadcast messages; at this time, the wireless hotspot may actively broadcast a message to the client for the client to select.

S14, sending a request command for requesting extended information to one or more wireless hotspots, receiving a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command, and extracting corresponding extended information from the received response message. At this moment, the user can actively request the wireless hotspot to provide hotspot information according to the actual requirement of the user.

Optionally, when obtaining the extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, the display method further includes:

s16, acquiring basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the basic information includes: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified;

correspondingly, when the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed, the display method further includes:

and S18, displaying the acquired basic information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the basic information and the extended information in the hotspot information are simultaneously displayed visually, so that the information amount of the information according to which a user selects the hotspot is increased, and the user experience is improved.

It should be noted that this embodiment and various preferred embodiments thereof can be applied to embodiment 1, and are not described herein again.

Example 3

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method embodiment of a hotspot access method, it is noted that the steps illustrated in the flowchart of the figure may be performed in a computer system, such as a set of computer-executable instructions, and that, while a logical order is illustrated in the flowchart, in some cases, the steps illustrated or described may be performed in an order different than here.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart of an alternative hotspot access method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the method includes the following steps:

step S502, obtaining extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

step S504, determining a target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot;

and step S506, accessing the determined target hotspot.

Optionally, before determining the target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, the method further includes:

s20, displaying the obtained expansion information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots;

correspondingly, determining a target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises:

s22, receiving a selection command for selecting the target hotspot input according to the displayed extension information;

and S24, determining the target hot spot according to the selection command.

During implementation, a user can screen according to the hot spot detailed information displayed, and after a certain SSID is selected, the user can move according to the position information of the SSID so as to achieve higher signal strength and data transmission rate. For example, in an application place such as an airport or a school, there are many surrounding hotspots and many users, and when a user selects a WiFi hotspot, the user generally finds a free hotspot with strong signal, high speed and a small number of users. Compared with the prior art, the user can easily achieve the purpose by means of the extended information of the wireless hotspot.

In addition, after acquiring the extension information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, the client may automatically select a corresponding hotspot for the user according to a preset hotspot selection rule, such as a preset priority rule, a proximity rule, and the like.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment and each preferred embodiment thereof, reference may be made to embodiment 1 and embodiment 2, which are not described herein again.

Example 4

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method embodiment of an information transmission method, it should be noted that the steps illustrated in the flowchart of the accompanying drawings may be performed in a computer system such as a set of computer executable instructions, and that while a logical order is illustrated in the flowchart, in some cases the steps illustrated or described may be performed in an order different than that herein.

Fig. 6 is a flowchart of an alternative information sending method according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, the method includes the following steps:

step S602, determining extension information of a wireless hotspot corresponding to a wireless hotspot device, where the extension information corresponding to the wireless hotspot device includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

step S604, the determined extension information is sent to the client in a broadcast message or a response message manner, where the client is configured to display the acquired extension information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, and further, the client determines whether to access the wireless hotspot according to the extension information corresponding to the wireless hotspot.

The extended information includes, but is not limited to, the above information, for example, western information indicating whether to open a black and white list function may be included in the extended information. If the white list function is started, only the users recorded in the white list have the right to access the corresponding wireless hotspots; and starting the blacklist function, and accessing the user recorded in the blacklist to the corresponding wireless hotspot without permission.

In the embodiment of the invention, the original hot spot information is expanded to achieve the purpose of expanding the hot spot information, thereby realizing the technical effect of increasing the information quantity of the information according to which a user selects the hot spot, and further solving the technical problem that the user cannot select a proper hot spot due to the limited information quantity which can be according to when the user selects the hot spot by using the existing mode.

It should be noted that, for this embodiment and each of the preferred embodiments thereof, reference may be made to the above-mentioned embodiments, which are not described herein again.

Example 5

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus embodiment of a client for accessing a wireless hotspot is provided.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of an optional client according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 7, an obtaining unit 702 is configured to obtain extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; and a display unit 704, configured to display the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

Optionally, the display unit may include at least one of: the first display module is configured to add a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot when the extension information includes the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and display the charging information added with the identifier corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, as shown in fig. 4, a color identifier may be added to the charging information, so that a user can recognize the charging information. (ii) a The second display module is used for virtually displaying the distribution position of one or more wireless hot spots in a preset area according to the position information of the wireless hot spots when the extended information contains the position information of the wireless hot spots, and displaying the virtual distribution position corresponding to the one or more wireless hot spots, so that the hot spots meeting the self-requirement can be selected nearby according to the position of the hot spots; a third display module, configured to, when the extension information includes at least one of: when any one of one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display frame. The information is displayed in a dialog box mode, so that the display layout can be saved, and the defect of complicated information caused by directly displaying the information is avoided.

Further optionally, the display unit further includes: the virtual module is used for virtually simulating the position of the client in a preset area according to the position information of the client when displaying the virtual distribution position corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots; and the fourth display module is used for displaying the position of the virtualized client. Therefore, the user can display the azimuth information in the result and move the magnitude of the signal quantity of each wireless hotspot to the relevant direction to obtain the hotspot with better signal.

Optionally, the obtaining unit includes: the first receiving module is used for receiving broadcast messages of one or more wireless hotspots; the first extraction module is used for extracting corresponding extension information from the received broadcast message, and at the moment, the wireless hotspot can actively broadcast the message to the client for the client to select; alternatively, the acquisition unit includes: the system comprises a sending module, a second receiving module and a second extracting module, wherein the sending module is used for sending a request command for requesting extended information to one or more wireless hotspots, the second receiving module is used for receiving a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command, and the second extracting module is used for extracting corresponding extended information from the received response message. At this moment, the user can actively request the wireless hotspot to provide hotspot information according to the actual requirement of the user.

Optionally, the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots when obtaining extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, where the basic information includes: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified; the display unit is further used for displaying the acquired basic information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots when the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed.

Example 6

The client is used for accessing the selected wireless hotspot and comprises: the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a processing unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, and the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot; the determining unit is used for determining a target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot; and the access unit is used for accessing the determined target hotspot.

Optionally, the client further includes: a display unit, configured to display the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots before determining the target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, where the first determining unit includes: the third receiving module is used for receiving a selection command which is input according to the displayed extended information and is used for selecting the target hotspot; and the determining module is used for determining the target hot spot according to the selection command.

In implementation, a user can screen according to the displayed hot spot detailed information, and after a certain SSID is selected, the user can move according to the position information of the SSID so as to achieve higher signal strength and data transmission rate. For example, in an application place such as an airport or a school, there are many surrounding hotspots and many users, and when a user selects a WiFi hotspot, the user generally finds a free hotspot with strong signal, high speed and a small number of users. Compared with the prior art, the user can easily achieve the purpose by means of the extended information of the wireless hotspot.

The client can perform visual conversion after acquiring the hotspot information, and can display the hotspot information to a user more intuitively for equipment with a screen or a webUI or other visual interfaces.

Example 7

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus embodiment of a hotspot device is provided, where the hotspot device is configured to enable a client to access a network by accessing a wireless hotspot.

The hotspot device comprises: a second determining unit, configured to determine extension information corresponding to the wireless hotspot, where the extension information corresponding to the wireless hotspot includes at least one of the following: the position information of the wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and the charging information of the access wireless hotspot. The hotspot device further comprises: the broadcast unit is used for sending the determined extended information to the client in a broadcast message mode; or the response unit is configured to send the determined extension information to the client in a response message manner, where the client is configured to display the acquired extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device, and further, the client is further configured to determine whether to access the wireless hotspot according to the extension information corresponding to the wireless hotspot.

In other words, the broadcasting unit is configured to broadcast a broadcast packet to the client, where the broadcast packet carries the extension information of the wireless hotspot; or the response unit is used for feeding back a response message to the client according to the request command after receiving the request command which is sent by the client and used for requesting the extended information, wherein the response message carries the extended information of the wireless hotspot.

Optionally, corresponding to the extension information, the hotspot device further includes at least one of: the position information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the position information of the wireless hotspot; the transmission rate acquisition unit is used for acquiring the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot; the access number acquisition unit is used for acquiring the maximum access number of the wireless hotspots allowed to be accessed and/or the access number of the current access wireless hotspot; and the charging information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the charging information of the access wireless hotspot.

Taking a wireless router as hotspot equipment as an example, the location information acquiring unit may be a GPS module of a wireless hotspot; the access number acquiring unit can be a WiFi module of a wireless hotspot; the transmission rate obtaining unit can be a main control module, and the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot refers to the smaller one of the network side rate of the wireless hotspot and the rate of the WiFi module per se; the charging information acquisition unit acquires corresponding charging information from a network side module of the wireless hotspot. For example, as shown in fig. 8, after the hot spot of the wireless router acquires the related extended information through the main control module, the hot spot of the wireless router packages the extended information into Beacon packets, and the Beacon packets are sent to each client through the WiFi module in a broadcast message (i.e., Beacon message) manner, and after receiving the Beacon message, the client side needs to extract information from the Beacon packet first and then display the information on a corresponding interface.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the hotspot is a wireless hotspot device. In addition, the present embodiment and various preferred embodiments thereof may refer to the above embodiments, and are not described herein again.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed technology can be implemented in other ways. The above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, a division of a unit may be a division of a logic function, and an actual implementation may have another division, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or may be integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or may not be executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, units or modules, and may be in an electrical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

It should be noted that, the above modules may be implemented by software or hardware, and for the latter, the following may be implemented, but not limited to: the modules are all positioned in the same processor; alternatively, the modules are respectively located in a plurality of processors.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a storage medium. Alternatively, in the present embodiment, the storage medium may be configured to store program codes for performing the following steps:

s22, acquiring extension information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

s24, determining a target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot;

and S26, accessing the determined target hotspot.

Optionally, the storage medium is further configured to store program codes for performing other steps in each preferred embodiment in the foregoing embodiments, which are not described herein again.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the storage medium may include, but is not limited to: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the processor executes, according to the program code stored in the storage medium:

s28, acquiring extension information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, where the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot includes at least one of: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

s30, determining a target hotspot from one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot;

and S32, accessing the determined target hotspot.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the processor executes the program codes of other steps in each preferred embodiment in the foregoing embodiments according to the program codes stored in the storage medium, which is not described herein again.

Optionally, the specific examples in this embodiment may refer to the examples described in the above embodiments and optional implementation manners, and this embodiment is not described herein again.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An information display method, comprising:

acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, wherein the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

and displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

2. The display method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots comprises at least one of:

when the extended information contains the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, adding a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and displaying the charging information added with the identifier corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots;

when the extended information contains the position information of the wireless hotspots, virtually obtaining distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots in a preset area according to the position information of the wireless hotspots, and displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots;

when the extension information includes at least one of: when any one of the one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display box.

3. The display method according to claim 2, wherein when displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, the display method further comprises:

virtually simulating the position of the client in the preset area according to the position information of the client;

and displaying the virtualized position of the client.

4. The display method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining the extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots comprises one of:

receiving broadcast messages of the one or more wireless hotspots, and extracting corresponding extension information from the received broadcast messages;

sending a request command for requesting the extended information to the one or more wireless hotspots, receiving a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command, and extracting the corresponding extended information from the received response message.

5. The display method according to claim 1,

when the extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots is obtained, the display method further includes: acquiring basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, wherein the basic information comprises: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified;

when the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed, the display method further includes: and displaying the acquired basic information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

6. A hotspot access method, comprising:

determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot;

accessing the determined target hotspot.

7. The method of claim 6,

before determining the target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, the access method further includes: displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots,

determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises: receiving a selection command for selecting the target hotspot input according to the displayed extended information; and determining the target hot spot according to the selection command.

8. An information transmission method, comprising:

determining extension information of a wireless hotspot corresponding to a wireless hotspot device, wherein the extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

and sending the determined extended information to a client in a broadcast message or response message mode, wherein the client is used for displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

9. A client, comprising:

the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a processing unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring extended information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots, and the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot comprises at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

and the display unit is used for displaying the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots.

10. The client of claim 9, wherein the display unit comprises at least one of:

the first display module is used for adding a preset identifier to the charging information of the access wireless hotspot when the extended information contains the charging information of the access wireless hotspot, and displaying the charging information which is added with the identifier and corresponds to one or more wireless hotspots;

the second display module is used for virtually obtaining distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots in a preset area according to the position information of the wireless hotspots when the extended information contains the position information of the wireless hotspots, and displaying the virtual distribution positions corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots;

a third display module, configured to, when the extended information includes at least one of: when any one of the one or more wireless hotspots is selected, the expansion information of the selected hotspot is displayed through a pop-up display box.

11. The client of claim 10, wherein the display unit further comprises:

the virtual module is used for virtually simulating the position of the client in the preset area according to the position information of the client when displaying the virtual distribution position corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots;

and the fourth display module is used for displaying the self position of the virtualized client.

12. The client of claim 9,

the acquisition unit includes: the first receiving module is used for receiving the broadcast messages of the one or more wireless hotspots; a first extraction module, configured to extract the corresponding extension information from the received broadcast packet,

or,

the acquisition unit includes: a sending module, configured to send a request command for requesting the extended information to the one or more wireless hotspots; the second receiving module is used for receiving a response message fed back by the one or more wireless hotspots according to the request command; and the second extraction module is used for extracting the corresponding extended information from the received response message.

13. The client of claim 9,

the obtaining unit is further configured to obtain basic information corresponding to one or more wireless hotspots when obtaining extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots, where the basic information includes: the method comprises the steps that the service set identifier SSID of the wireless hotspot, the media access control MAC address of the wireless hotspot, the encryption mode of the wireless hotspot and the signal strength of the wireless hotspot are identified;

the display unit is further configured to display the acquired basic information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots when the acquired extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots is displayed.

14. A client, comprising:

a first determining unit, configured to determine a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot;

and the access unit is used for accessing the determined target hotspot.

15. The client of claim 14,

the client further comprises: a display unit, configured to display the obtained extended information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots before determining the target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extended information corresponding to each wireless hotspot,

the first determination unit includes: a third receiving module, configured to receive a selection command for selecting the target hotspot, where the selection command is input according to the displayed extended information; and the determining module is used for determining the target hotspot according to the selection command.

16. A hotspot device, comprising:

a second determining unit, configured to determine extension information of a wireless hotspot corresponding to a wireless hotspot device, where the extension information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device includes at least one of the following: position information of the wireless hotspot, maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, access number of the current access wireless hotspot, charging information of the access wireless hotspot,

the hotspot device further comprises: the broadcast unit is used for sending the determined extended information to the client in a broadcast message mode; a response unit, configured to send the determined extension information to the client in a manner of response message,

the client is used for displaying the acquired extended information of the wireless hotspot corresponding to the wireless hotspot device.

17. The hotspot device of claim 16, wherein corresponding to the extension information, the hotspot device further comprises at least one of:

a location information acquiring unit, configured to acquire the location information of the wireless hotspot;

a transmission rate obtaining unit, configured to obtain a maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot;

an access number obtaining unit, configured to obtain the maximum access number of the allowed access wireless hotspot and/or the access number of the currently accessed wireless hotspot;

and the charging information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the charging information of the access wireless hotspot.

18. A hotspot access system, comprising:

one or more wireless hotspot devices, configured to issue broadcast packets or response packets of respective corresponding wireless hotspots to a client, where each broadcast packet or response packet carries extension information of a corresponding wireless hotspot, where the extension information includes at least one of the following: the method comprises the following steps of obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot, the maximum data transmission rate allowed by the wireless hotspot, the maximum access number allowed to access the wireless hotspot, the access number of the current access wireless hotspot and charging information of the access wireless hotspot;

and the client is used for acquiring the extension information corresponding to the one or more wireless hotspots from the broadcast message or the response message, determining a target hotspot from the one or more wireless hotspots according to the extension information corresponding to each wireless hotspot, and accessing the determined target hotspot.