CN109429375B

CN109429375B - Method and device for sending information

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Publication number: CN109429375B
Application number: CN201710555454.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 丁寻; 侯维苇
Original assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Current assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-07-10
Filing date: 2017-07-10
Publication date: 2021-11-16
Anticipated expiration: 2037-07-10
Also published as: CN109429375A

Abstract

The invention provides a method and a device for sending information, wherein the method for sending the information comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps of determining that an information input interface of a terminal is in an information input state, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network, and sending input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when an information sending command is received. The scheme of the invention can activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission before sending the information, and directly send the information through the activated wireless transmission link, thereby avoiding deactivating the wireless transmission link until the information is sent, effectively eliminating or reducing the control delay of wireless resources, and not increasing the cost of any hardware facility, thereby effectively improving the information sending speed of the wireless communication network under the condition of low cost.

Description

Method and device for sending information

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for sending information.

Background

The speed of delivery of information is an important performance index of instant messaging software. The network speed of users (i.e. user terminals) in a mobile network is often affected by various factors, such as signal fluctuation, user competition, etc., so that the delivery of information is usually delayed significantly, and therefore, it is an integrated process to increase the delivery speed of information. It is found from data statistics that a significant portion of the channel delivery delay is spent in the last few kilometers of communication distance, the so-called "last kilometer" problem.

In order to increase the information delivery speed, many communication software are currently optimized for the "last mile" problem. The following two methods are common methods for increasing the information delivery speed:

(1) optimizing hardware facilities

Specifically, a common way to optimize hardware facilities is to deploy servers in different regions, place data servers in a location close to the client, and use high-speed networks such as optical fibers between different servers, so that the round-trip delay of the network can be reduced, thereby increasing the information delivery speed. In addition, a special line can be applied to a telecom operator, so that the delay of the background server for accessing the network is reduced, and the information delivery speed is improved.

Although the method for optimizing the hardware facilities can alleviate the problem of the last kilometer to a certain extent and improve the information delivery speed, the method has the problem of high cost, and the hardware facilities also need to be correspondingly upgraded along with the increase of the user scale, so that the cost burden is large.

(2) Optimizing client software internals

Specifically, the methods for optimizing the internal of the client software include the following two methods: one is to reduce the data to be transmitted by a reduction protocol or compression algorithm; another is to optimize the network Protocol, for example, reuse an already established Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection, so as to reduce the delay caused by slow start of the TCP Protocol and a congestion Control algorithm, or to deeply optimize the TCP Protocol, for example, adjust a start window of the TCP Protocol, disable slow start, and the like.

Although the method for optimizing the inside of the client software can alleviate the problem of the last kilometer to a certain extent and improve the information delivery speed, a certain bottleneck exists, specifically, the amount of information sent each time in a chat scene is usually small, the protocol simplification or data compression cannot bring obvious improvement to the information delivery speed, and meanwhile, if the mobile terminal is idle for several seconds, the extra Radio Resource Control (RRC) delay cannot be reduced through protocol optimization.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention aims to provide a method and a device for sending information, which aim to solve the problems that the existing method for improving the information sending speed is high in cost and limited in the information sending speed.

In one aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for sending information, including:

determining that an information input interface of a terminal is in an information input state;

activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network;

and when an information sending command is received, sending the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link.

On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for sending information, including:

the first determining module is used for determining that an information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state;

an activation module for activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network;

and the sending module is used for sending the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the information sending command.

The method for sending the information of the embodiment of the invention sends the preset additional information to the wireless communication network by determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, activates the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network, and sends the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the information sending command, thereby being capable of activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission before sending the information, directly sending the information through the activated wireless transmission link, avoiding deactivating the wireless transmission link when the information is sent, effectively eliminating or reducing the control delay of wireless resources, and not increasing the cost of any hardware facility, thereby effectively improving the information sending speed of the wireless communication network under the condition of low cost.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a terminal state switching process in a conventional 3G network;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a scenario in which a method for sending information according to an embodiment of the present invention is applicable;

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

fig. 4 shows a specific application scenario of the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of another method of transmitting information in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

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

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for transmitting information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a second schematic diagram of an apparatus for sending information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a third schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for transmitting information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a fourth schematic diagram of an apparatus for sending messages according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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 some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. 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.

For the convenience of understanding the present invention, a description will be first made of a terminal state in a wireless communication network (i.e., a network or a mobile network).

Radio Resource Controllers (RRC) are typically provided in wireless communication networks, and are responsible for scheduling and coordinating all communication connections between terminals and radio base stations. In a wireless communication network, the radio transmission power of each terminal may be controlled by the RRC, which tells each terminal when to start communication, how much transmission power to use, and when to switch to another transmission power. Generally, each terminal operates in a high power state to achieve a "high throughput" effect while communicating in consideration of coverage of a wider range and interference rejection in wireless communication, and switches to a low power state in an idle state in order to save power.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a terminal status switching process in a 3G (3 rd Generation) network. In fig. 1, the simplified terminal state can be divided into three states, namely an IDLE state (IDLE state), a Cell DCH state (active state), and a Cell FACH state (active state). In the IDLE state, the terminal is not connected with a wireless communication network, a radio module of the terminal is in a low-power state, and only control signals from the network are monitored; in the Cell DCH state, the terminal is connected with a wireless communication network, a radio module of the terminal is in a high-power state, and the network distributes network resources for the transmission of uplink and downlink data streams; in the Cell FACH state, the terminal is in a dormant state, and a radio module of the terminal is in a medium power state, which consumes much less power than the Cell DCH state, and can transmit a small amount of user data through a shared low-speed channel. When the data transmission of the terminal is finished, the terminal is switched from the Cell DCH state to the Cell FACH state and then to the IDLE state, so that the electric quantity is saved. When the terminal is in the IDLE state, if data transmission is to be performed, the terminal may switch from the IDLE state to the Cell DCH state to obtain the maximum throughput for data transmission, that is, when the terminal sends information, the terminal generally experiences a process of switching from the IDLE state to the Cell DCH state, that is, a process of activating a radio transmission link for information transmission, and the above process requires a certain execution time, thereby causing a delay of information delivery, that is, an RRC delay.

Aiming at RRC delay when information is currently sent, the embodiment of the invention provides a method for sending the information, which can activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission before the information is sent, so that a terminal is switched from an IDLE state to a Cell DCH state in advance, and when the terminal sends the information, a current wireless interface is already in a high-power state, so that high-speed information transmission can be immediately carried out, and the information sending speed of a wireless communication network is effectively improved. For example, according to statistics, the delay of switching from the IDLE state to the Cell DCH state in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is hundreds of ms, and the delay of switching from the IDLE state to the Cell DCH state in a 3G network can be up to two seconds at most.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the method of sending information may be applied to a scenario composed of the server 201 and the terminal 202 as shown in fig. 2. As shown in fig. 2, a terminal 201, such as a Personal Computer (PC), a mobile phone, a tablet computer, etc., is connected to a remote server 203 through a wireless communication network 202, where the server 203 may include a processor, a storage medium, a memory, a network interface, etc., which are connected through a system bus, the wireless communication network 202 includes a core network device 2021 and an access network device 2022, and the access network device 2022 may be a base station. Specifically, the terminal 201 can access the wireless communication network 202 through a base station of the wireless communication network 202 and communicate with the server 201 through the wireless communication network 202. The method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention may be executed by the terminal 201, or may be executed by both the server 203 and the terminal 201. The method for the terminal 201 to send information according to the embodiment of the present invention may be specifically executed by a client installed thereon.

The method for sending information according to the present invention is described below with reference to some specific examples.

Referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for sending information, including:

step 301: and determining that an information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

The method for sending information In the embodiment of the invention can be applied to chat scenes In instant messaging software, such as public chat window assembly (AIO, All In One) window group chat (see fig. 4) of a mobile phone QQ, micro-messenger group chat and the like. Besides being applied to a chat scene in communication software, the method for sending information provided by the embodiment of the invention can also be applied to other information sending scenes with high requirements on time delay, such as user name login, real-time fight and the like, so as to effectively improve the information sending speed.

The information in the embodiment of the present invention may be text information, voice information, video information, image information, or the like. According to the common user behavior habit, a user starts to perform information input operation, so that information can be sent within a period of time after the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state.

Step 302: a radio transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network is activated by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network.

The predetermined additional information is, for example, a probe packet, a signaling message, etc., and is mainly used for activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network.

Step 303: and when an information sending command is received, sending the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link.

Because the wireless transmission link for activating information transmission occurs before sending information, when receiving an information sending command and sending the currently input information through the activated wireless transmission link, the wireless transmission link can be prevented from being deactivated until the information is sent, and the RRC delay caused by the problem of the last kilometer in a wireless communication network is effectively eliminated or reduced.

The method for sending the information of the embodiment of the invention sends the preset additional information to the wireless communication network by determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, activates the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network, and sends the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the information sending command, thereby being capable of activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission before sending the information, directly sending the information through the activated wireless transmission link, avoiding deactivating the wireless transmission link when the information is sent, effectively eliminating or reducing RRC delay, and not increasing any hardware facility cost, thereby effectively improving the information sending speed of the wireless communication network under the condition of low cost.

In the embodiment of the invention, the condition for determining the information input interface of the terminal to be in the information input state is generally different due to different input information types. For example, when the input information category is text information, as shown in fig. 4, the condition for determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state may be that a text input box in the information input interface is detected to be activated, such as that a cursor for indicating an information input position in the text input box is activated (usually, a user may activate the cursor by a clicking operation on the text input box), or that text information starts to appear in the text input box (that is, that text information appears at an initial end of the text input box is detected); when the input information type is voice information, the condition for determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state can be that a voice input key in the information input interface is detected to be pressed; when the input information type is image information, the condition for determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state can be that an image input key in the information input interface is pressed down, or the information input interface jumps to a picture selection interface or a picture shooting interface; and so on.

Based on this, the step 101 may specifically be:

and when a text input box in the information input interface is activated or a multimedia content input key in the information input interface is pressed, determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

In the specific embodiment of the present invention, the process of determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state may be:

judging whether an information input interface enters an information input state, wherein the information input state comprises the following steps: activating a text input box in the information input interface or pressing a multimedia content input key in the information input interface;

and when the information input interface is judged to enter the information input state, determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state.

Before judging whether the information input interface enters the information input state, the terminal can detect whether the information input interface is activated or not, and when detecting that the information input interface is activated, the terminal can judge whether the information input interface enters the information input state or not. The multimedia content input key is, for example, a voice input key, an image input key, or a video input key, and the like, which is not limited by the present invention.

For example, when the user a performs group chat in an AIO window of a QQ using the mobile phone UE1 and the input information is text information, referring to fig. 4, when a cursor for indicating an information input position in a text input box in an information input interface of the UE1 is activated, the UE1 may determine that the information input interface is in an information input state, and activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network before transmitting the text information, that is, during the process of inputting the text information by the user a, so that the UE1 may transmit the information to be transmitted in the text input box through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving a transmission command from the user a, and avoid waiting until the information is transmitted to deactivate the wireless transmission link, thereby effectively eliminating or reducing a wireless resource control delay.

For another example, when the user B uses the mobile UE2 to chat in a WeChat, the input information is picture information, when the UE2 jumps from the information input interface to the picture selection interface or the picture taking interface, or an image input key in the information input interface is pressed, the UE2 can determine that the information input interface is in the information input state, and activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network before receiving a sending command of the user B, so that the UE2 can send the picture selected or taken by the user B through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the sending command of the user B, and deactivate the wireless transmission link until the information is sent, thereby effectively eliminating or reducing the wireless resource control delay.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the terminal activates the wireless transmission link for information transmission, the terminal can be realized by adopting a mode of actively detecting or sending a signaling message. Specifically, the terminal may activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission in at least the following two ways, which are described in detail below.

In a first mode

In the first mode, the wireless transmission link for transmitting the terminal activation information may specifically be:

generating a detection data packet with a preset size;

and sending a detection data packet to the wireless communication network, and activating a wireless transmission link.

In order to save traffic, the probe packet is generally small, only several tens of bytes are information similar to information input in the terminal, and is also sent through the wireless transmission link, but after receiving the probe packet, the server directly discards the probe packet without performing subsequent processing on the probe packet, for example, displaying the probe packet on a chat interface of communication software or storing the probe packet as a message record. The detection data packet only has the function of active detection, and the detection data packet is sent to trigger a corresponding signaling flow and establish a wireless transmission link between the terminal and the wireless communication network, so that the terminal is switched from an idle state to a connection state, and the wireless transmission link for information transmission is activated.

In the first mode, the terminal activates the wireless transmission link for information transmission by sending the probe packet to the wireless communication network, but in addition to this mode, the terminal may also activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission by sending the signaling message to the wireless communication network, for example, the second mode.

Mode two

In the second mode, the wireless transmission link for transmitting the terminal activation information may specifically be:

generating a signaling message for activating a wireless transmission link;

and sending a signaling message to the wireless communication network to activate the wireless transmission link.

The size of the signaling message may be only tens of bytes, specifically, the existing signaling message in the wireless communication network may be used to activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission, for example, the terminal sends an RRC connection establishment request message.

In the embodiment of the invention, because the wireless transmission link for activating information transmission brings extra traffic consumption to the terminal, the terminal can reasonably activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission by predicting the time for activating the wireless transmission link so as to control the upper limit of traffic consumption, balance traffic consumption and improve information delivery speed in order to avoid excessive consumption of terminal traffic and occupation of terminal resources. When predicting the time for activating the wireless transmission link, the terminal can predict the time by combining the input habit of the user, the actual network type and/or the actual network delay and the like.

Specifically, after the terminal determines that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, the terminal can predict the time for activating the wireless transmission link. When the time for activating the wireless transmission link is predicted, the terminal may predict, for example, an average time interval from when the user starts to perform the information input operation to send the information and an average time delay required for activating the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network, which are counted in advance by the terminal, and the time delay of the predicted activation time relative to the determination that the information input interface is in the information input state is not greater than a difference between the average time interval and the average time delay.

For example, the average time interval counted by the terminal UE3 between the start of the information input operation by the user thereof and the transmission of the information is 2 seconds, and the average time delay required for activating the radio transmission link is 0.8 seconds, then the UE3 may delay the activation of the radio transmission link for a time delay of not more than 1.2 seconds after determining that the information input interface thereof is in the information input state, so as to ensure that the link is activated when the information is transmitted.

When a user inputs information on the information input interface, the process of inputting the information is often unpredictable to a certain extent. For example, when a user inputs text information in a chat scenario, the text information may be edited many times before the text information is sent, and the editing process may be stopped for a certain period of time due to thinking, or the text information may be paused due to an emergency, etc. Therefore, in order to predict the timing of activating the radio transmission link, the terminal may periodically detect or determine the information that has been input after the radio transmission link for information transmission is first activated, and compare whether the information detected in adjacent periods is the same. When the information detected in the adjacent periods is different, the user can be indicated that the input information is not interrupted and the activation state of the wireless transmission link needs to be maintained, and when the information detected in the adjacent periods is the same, the user can be indicated that the input information is possibly interrupted or stopped, and the wireless transmission link can be stopped being activated.

When a fixed period for periodically detecting the inputted information is set, the fixed period can be manually set, or the fixed period can be set by means of dynamic adjustment of the terminal. Since the purpose of periodically detecting the inputted information is to predict the timing of activating the radio transmission link so as to maintain the activation state of the radio transmission link before sending the information, the keep-alive time (i.e. the duration of the activation state) of the corresponding radio transmission link is generally different for different types of radio communication networks, so that the type of the radio communication network actually accessed by the terminal can be considered when setting the fixed period of the periodic detection of the terminal. If the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network accessed by the terminal is long, the fixed period of the periodic detection is close to the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link and is set to be longer, namely close to the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link, so that the frequency of activating the wireless transmission link is reduced, and the extra flow consumption is reduced; if the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network accessed by the terminal is short, the fixed period of the periodic detection can be set to be shorter so as to keep the wireless transmission link in an activated state. In addition, the terminal may also adjust the set period due to delays of the actual wireless communication network.

For example, when the UE4 of the cell phone is sending information by using the cell phone QQ, the 4G network has a keep-alive time of its radio transmission link of 20S under the control of the corresponding operator, at this time, the user of the UE4 may set the period of the periodic detection of the UE4 to 19S, or the UE4 dynamically adjusts the period of the periodic detection to 19S according to the actual situation of the 4G network, so as to reactivate the activated radio transmission link when the activated radio transmission link is to be switched to an idle state, and ensure that the radio transmission link is activated when sending information. Whereas if the 4G network has a 2S delay, the UE4 may dynamically adjust its periodicity of detection to 17S, taking into account the 2S delay.

In an embodiment of the present invention, after step 302, the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

periodically determining the information that has been input;

when the information determined in the current period is different from the information determined in the previous period of the current period, determining the sending state of the information input in the current period;

when the transmission state of the information which is input in the current period is not transmitted, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by transmitting the preset additional information to the wireless communication network again;

and when the transmission state of the information which is input in the current period is transmitted, stopping activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network.

When the sending state of the information input in the current period is determined, whether the information input in the current period is sent or not can be judged. The manner of determining whether the information input in the current period has been sent is, for example, determining whether the text information in the text input box in the current period is empty, or determining whether an information sending command has been received in the current period.

Therefore, the input information is periodically determined in the process of inputting the information, the periodically determined fixed period is related to the actual wireless communication network type, and whether the wireless transmission link for information transmission is continuously activated or not is determined according to the determination result, so that the frequency for activating the wireless transmission link can be reduced as much as possible on the premise of ensuring the information delivery speed to be improved, the extra flow consumption is reduced, and the flow consumption is balanced and the information delivery speed is improved.

Further, since the user may interrupt the input information due to thinking or an emergency when the input information detected in the adjacent period is the same, but the user may continue to input information after a period of time, or may not continue to input information, in order to avoid that the speed of information delivery is affected by stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the case of continuing to input information, and excessive traffic is consumed by continuing to activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the case of not continuing to input information, the terminal may set a keep-alive timer for the wireless transmission link, start the keep-alive timer when the input information detected in the adjacent period is the same for the first time, and continue to activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission within the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer when the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer is exceeded, and when the input information is unchanged all the time, stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission. The preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer is generally related to the input habit of a user, if the user habit takes a thought for a long time and inputs information, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be set to be longer, and otherwise, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be set to be shorter. In addition, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be dynamically adjusted according to the actual network delay, so that the optimal time for activating the wireless transmission link can be obtained.

For example, if user C were to enter information after a long time trial and the average time interval from the beginning of entering information to the sending of information was 30S, user C could set the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer of the radio transmission link in his terminal UE5 to 32S, slightly longer than the average time interval 30S, to ensure that the radio transmission link was activated when sending information. Whereas if the network in which the UE5 resides has a 1S delay, the UE5 can dynamically adjust the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer to 33S, taking into account the 1S delay.

Specifically, after step 302, when the information determined in the current period is the same as the information determined in the previous period of the current period, the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

determining a start state of a keep alive timer of the wireless transmission link;

when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started, starting the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, and activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network again;

when the starting state of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is started, determining the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer;

when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer does not reach the preset keep-alive time, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network again;

and when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer reaches the preset keep-alive time, stopping activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network.

In addition, when predicting the time for activating the wireless transmission link, the terminal can predict the time by periodically determining the transmission state of the currently input information in addition to the situation of the periodically determined input information. The wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network may be activated again by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network when the currently input information has not been transmitted, and the activation of the wireless transmission link may be stopped when the currently input information has been transmitted.

In another specific embodiment of the present invention, after the step 302, the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

periodically determining the sending state of the currently input information;

when the transmission state of the currently input information is not transmitted, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by transmitting the predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network again;

when the transmission state of the currently input information is transmitted, the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network is stopped from being activated.

When the terminal is set to periodically determine the fixed period of the transmission state of the currently input information, the terminal can refer to the mode of setting the fixed period of the periodically detected input information, and the setting is performed according to the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network which is actually accessed mainly by considering the type of the wireless communication network which is actually accessed by the terminal.

Referring to fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for sending information, including:

step 501: and detecting whether an information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

The information in this step may be text information, voice information, video information or image information, etc.

Step 502: and when detecting that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network.

When activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission, the terminal can be realized by adopting a mode of actively detecting or sending a signaling message.

Step 503: the information that has been input is periodically detected, and it is compared whether the information detected in the adjacent periods is the same.

When a fixed period of the periodic detection of the terminal is set, the type of the actual wireless communication network can be considered, and the type of the wireless communication network is considered mainly because different types of wireless communication networks generally have different keep-alive times corresponding to wireless transmission links. Generally, if the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network is long, the fixed period of the periodic detection can be set to be longer, so as to reduce the frequency of activating the wireless transmission link and reduce the extra traffic consumption; if the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network is short, the fixed period of the periodic detection can be set to be shorter so as to keep the wireless transmission link in an activated state.

Step 504: and when the information detected in the current period is different from the information detected in the previous period of the current period, judging whether the information input in the current period is sent or not.

The method for judging whether the information input in the current period is sent can be judging whether the text information in the text input box in the current period is empty or judging whether an information input interface of the terminal in the current period is in an information input state or not. If the information is judged to be sent in the current period, the wireless transmission link for information transmission can be stopped to be activated, and if the information is judged not to be sent in the current period, the user possibly still inputs the information and needs to continue activating the wireless transmission link.

It should be noted that, when determining that the information input in the current period is not transmitted, the terminal returns to step 502 to continue activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission, and when determining that the information input in the current period is transmitted, the terminal executes step 505.

Step 505: and when judging that the information input in the current period is sent, stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the information sending command, the terminal may send the currently input information through the activated wireless transmission link. There is no necessary association between the process of sending the inputted information and the process of periodically detecting and comparing in steps 503 to 505, and it is possible that the terminal detects the inputted information and compares whether the information detected in the adjacent periods is the same or not when sending the inputted information, but the terminal stops activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission and stops the process of periodically detecting and comparing when judging that the inputted information is sent.

Therefore, the input information is periodically detected in the information sending process, the fixed period of the periodic detection is related to the actual wireless communication network type, and whether the wireless transmission link for information transmission is continuously activated or not is determined according to the detection result, so that the frequency of activating the wireless transmission link can be reduced as much as possible on the premise of ensuring the information sending speed to be improved, the extra flow consumption is reduced, and the flow consumption is balanced and the information sending speed is improved.

Referring to fig. 5 again, the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

step 506: and when the detected information in the current period is the same as the information in the previous period of the current period, judging whether a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is started currently.

The preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer is generally related to user input habits, if the user habits are considered for a long time and then information is input, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be set to be longer, and otherwise, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be set to be shorter. In addition, the preset keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer can be dynamically adjusted according to the actual network delay, so that the optimal time for activating the wireless transmission link can be obtained.

Step 507: and when judging that the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started currently, starting the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, and returning to the step 502 to continue activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission.

Step 508: and when judging that the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is started currently, judging whether the keep-alive timer reaches the preset keep-alive duration.

When the keep-alive timer is judged not to reach the preset keep-alive time, the step 502 is returned to, the wireless transmission link for information transmission is continuously activated, and when the keep-alive timer is judged to reach the preset keep-alive time, the step 505 is executed, and the wireless transmission link for information transmission is stopped being activated.

Therefore, the keep-alive timer for starting the wireless transmission link is added in the information sending process, and the influence on the information sending speed and the consumption of excessive extra flow caused by interrupting the input information can be avoided.

In addition, referring to fig. 6, another method for sending information is further provided in an embodiment of the present invention, including:

step 601: and detecting whether an information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

Step 602: and when detecting that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network.

Step 603: periodically judging whether the currently input information is sent.

The method for judging whether the information input in the current period is sent can be judging whether the text information in the text input box in the current period is empty or judging whether an information input interface of the terminal in the current period is in an information input state or not. When the terminal determines that the currently input information is not transmitted, the terminal returns to step 602 to continue activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission, and when the terminal determines that the currently input information is transmitted, the terminal executes step 604 to stop activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission.

When the fixed period of the periodic judgment of the terminal is set, the mode of setting the fixed period of the periodic detection input information can be referred, the type of the wireless communication network actually accessed by the terminal is mainly considered, and the setting is carried out according to the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network actually accessed. If the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network accessed by the terminal is long, the fixed period of the periodic detection is close to the keep-alive time of the corresponding wireless transmission link and is set to be longer, namely close to the keep-alive time of the corresponding wireless transmission link, so that the frequency of activating the wireless transmission link is reduced, and the extra flow consumption is reduced; if the keep-alive time of the wireless transmission link of the wireless communication network accessed by the terminal is short, the fixed period of the periodic detection can be set to be shorter so as to keep the wireless transmission link in an activated state.

Step 604: and when judging that the currently input information is sent, stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission.

It should be noted that, in the method for sending information according to the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving the information sending command, the terminal may send the currently input information through the activated wireless transmission link. There is no necessary association between the process of sending the inputted information and the periodic determination process of steps 603 to 604, and it is possible that the terminal also periodically determines whether the currently inputted information is sent when sending the inputted information, but the terminal stops activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission and stops the periodic determination process when determining that the currently inputted information is sent.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the invention, by adding the periodicity to judge whether the currently input information is sent or not, the extra traffic consumption can be reduced on the premise of ensuring the speed of improving the information delivery speed, thereby balancing the traffic consumption and improving the information delivery speed.

The above embodiments describe the method for transmitting information according to the present invention, and the following describes an apparatus for transmitting information according to the present invention with reference to the embodiments and the drawings.

Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for sending information, including:

a first determining module 701, configured to determine that an information input interface of a terminal is in an information input state;

an activating module 702 for activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network;

the sending module 703 is configured to send, when receiving the information sending command, the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the first determining module 701 is specifically configured to:

In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 8, the apparatus further includes:

a second determining module 704 for periodically determining the inputted information;

a third determining module 705, configured to determine, when the information determined in the current period is different from the information determined in the previous period of the current period, a sending state of the information that has been input in the current period;

a first triggering module 706, configured to trigger the activating module 702 to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network when the sending status of the information that has been input in the current period is unsent;

a first control module 707, configured to control the activation module 702 to stop activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the transmission status of the information that has been input in the current period is that the information has been transmitted.

Further, referring to fig. 8, the apparatus further includes:

a fourth determining module 708, configured to determine, when the information determined in the current period is the same as the information determined in the previous period of the current period, a starting state of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link;

a starting module 709, configured to start the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link when the start state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started, and trigger the activating module 702 to activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network;

a fifth determining module 710, configured to determine a keep-alive time of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link when a start state of the keep-alive timer is started;

a second control module 711, configured to control the activation module 702 to stop activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer reaches a preset keep-alive time;

a second triggering module 712, configured to trigger the activating module 702 to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer does not reach the preset keep-alive time.

In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 9, the apparatus further includes:

a sixth determining module 713, configured to periodically determine a sending state of the currently input information;

a third triggering module 714, configured to trigger the activating module 702 to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network when the sending status of the currently input information is not sending;

the third control module 715, configured to control the activation module 702 to stop activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the transmission status of the currently input information is that the information has been transmitted.

In an embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 10, the activation module 702 may include:

a first generating unit 7021, configured to generate a detection data packet with a preset size;

a first sending unit 7022, configured to send the probe packet to a wireless communication network, and activate the wireless transmission link.

Further, referring to fig. 8, the activation module 702 may include:

a second generating unit 7023, configured to generate a signaling message for activating the wireless transmission link;

a second sending unit 7024, configured to send the signaling message to a wireless communication network, and activate the wireless transmission link.

The device for sending information of the embodiment of the invention sends the preset additional information to the wireless communication network by determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state, activates the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network, and sends the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the information sending command, thereby being capable of activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission before sending the information, directly sending the information through the activated wireless transmission link, avoiding deactivating the wireless transmission link when the information is sent, effectively eliminating or reducing RRC delay, and not increasing any hardware facility cost, thereby effectively improving the information sending speed of the wireless communication network under the condition of low cost.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, which includes a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, where the processor executes the computer program to implement the steps in the above method for sending information.

Specifically, referring to fig. 11, a terminal of an embodiment of the present invention may include a bus 111, a processor 112, a transceiver 113, a bus interface 114, a memory 115, and a user interface 116.

The processor 112 is configured to read the program in the memory 115, and execute the following processes:

the method comprises the steps of determining that an information input interface of a terminal is in an information input state, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network, and sending input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when an information sending command is received.

A transceiver 113 for receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 112.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: and when a text input box in the information input interface is activated or a multimedia content input key in the information input interface is pressed, determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: the method comprises the steps of periodically determining information which is input, determining the sending state of the information which is input in the current period when the information which is input in the current period is different from the information which is determined in the previous period of the current period, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network again when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is not sent, and stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is sent.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: when the information determined in the current period is the same as the information determined in the previous period of the current period, determining the starting state of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started, starting the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, and activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network again, when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is started, determining the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer, when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer does not reach the preset keep-alive time, activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending the preset additional information to the wireless communication network again, when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer reaches the preset keep-alive time, deactivating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: the method comprises the steps of periodically determining the transmission state of the currently input information, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network again when the transmission state of the currently input information is not transmitted, and stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the transmission state of the currently input information is transmitted.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: and generating a detection data packet with a preset size, sending the detection data packet to a wireless communication network, and activating the wireless transmission link.

Specifically, the processor 112 is further configured to: generating a signaling message for activating the radio transmission link, sending the signaling message to a radio communication network, and activating the radio transmission link.

In FIG. 11, a bus architecture (represented by bus 111), bus 111 may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, bus 111 linking together various circuits including one or more processors, represented by general purpose processor 112, and memory, represented by memory 115. The bus 111 may also link together various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. A bus interface 114 provides an interface between the bus 111 and the transceiver 113. The transceiver 113 may be one element or may be multiple elements, such as multiple receivers and transmitters, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. For example: the transceiver 113 receives external data from other devices. The transceiver 113 is used for transmitting data processed by the processor 112 to other devices. Depending on the nature of the computing system, a user interface 116, such as a keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, may also be provided.

The processor 112 is responsible for managing the bus 111 and the usual processing, running a general-purpose operating system as described previously. And memory 115 may be used to store data used by processor 112 in performing operations.

Alternatively, the processor 112 may be a CPU, ASIC, FPGA, or CPLD.

It will be appreciated that memory 115 in embodiments of the invention may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. Volatile Memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache Memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic random access memory (ddr Data Rate SDRAM, ddr SDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM). The memory 115 of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 115 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or a subset thereof, or an expanded set thereof: an operating system 1151 and application programs 1152.

The operating system 1151 includes various system programs, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, and the like, and is used for implementing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application 1152 includes various applications, such as a Media Player (Media Player), a Browser (Browser), and the like, for implementing various application services. A program implementing a method of an embodiment of the invention may be included in application program 1152.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program (instructions), which when executed by a processor, implement the steps of:

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: and when a text input box in the information input interface is activated or a multimedia content input key in the information input interface is pressed, determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in an information input state.

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: the method comprises the steps of periodically determining information which is input, determining the sending state of the information which is input in the current period when the information which is input in the current period is different from the information which is determined in the previous period of the current period, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network again when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is not sent, and stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is sent.

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: when the information determined in the current period is the same as the information determined in the previous period of the current period, determining the starting state of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started, starting the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link, and activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network again, when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is started, determining the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer, when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer does not reach the preset keep-alive time, activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending the preset additional information to the wireless communication network again, when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer reaches the preset keep-alive time, deactivating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network.

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: the method comprises the steps of periodically determining the transmission state of the currently input information, activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by transmitting predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network again when the transmission state of the currently input information is not transmitted, and stopping activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the transmission state of the currently input information is transmitted.

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: and generating a detection data packet with a preset size, sending the detection data packet to a wireless communication network, and activating the wireless transmission link.

Optionally, the program (instructions), when executed by the processor, may further implement the steps of: generating a signaling message for activating the radio transmission link, sending the signaling message to a radio communication network, and activating the radio transmission link.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

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.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

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. A method for transmitting information, comprising:

when an information sending command is received, sending input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link;

the step of determining that the information input interface of the terminal is in the information input state includes:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after the step of activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network, the method further comprises:

periodically determining the information that has been input;

3. The method of claim 2, wherein when the information determined by the current period and the previous period of the current period is the same, the method further comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein after the step of activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in a wireless communication network, the method further comprises:

periodically determining the sending state of the currently input information;

5. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the step of activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network comprises:

generating a detection data packet with a preset size;

and sending the detection data packet to a wireless communication network, and activating the wireless transmission link.

6. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the step of activating a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending predetermined additional information to the wireless communication network comprises:

generating a signaling message for activating the wireless transmission link;

and sending the signaling message to a wireless communication network, and activating the wireless transmission link.

7. An apparatus for transmitting information, comprising:

the sending module is used for sending the input information to be sent through the activated wireless transmission link when receiving the information sending command;

the first determining module includes:

8. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a second determination module for periodically determining the inputted information;

the third determining module is used for determining the sending state of the information input in the current period when the information determined in the current period is different from the information determined in the previous period of the current period;

the first triggering module is used for triggering the activation module to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is not sent;

the first control module is used for controlling the activation module to stop activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the sending state of the information which is input in the current period is sent.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a fourth determining module, configured to determine, when the information determined in the current period is the same as the information determined in the previous period of the current period, a starting state of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link;

the starting module is used for starting the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link when the starting state of the keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link is not started, and triggering the activating module to activate the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network;

a fifth determining module, configured to determine a keep-alive time of a keep-alive timer of the wireless transmission link when a start state of the keep-alive timer is started;

the second triggering module is used for triggering the activation module to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer does not reach the preset keep-alive time;

and the second control module is used for controlling the activation module to stop activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the keep-alive time of the keep-alive timer reaches the preset keep-alive time.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a sixth determining module, configured to periodically determine a sending state of currently input information;

the third triggering module is used for triggering the activation module to activate a wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network by sending preset additional information to the wireless communication network when the sending state of the currently input information is not sent;

and the third control module is used for controlling the activation module to stop activating the wireless transmission link for information transmission in the wireless communication network when the currently input information is sent.

11. The apparatus of any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein the activation module comprises:

the device comprises a first generating unit, a second generating unit and a control unit, wherein the first generating unit is used for generating a detection data packet with a preset size;

and the first sending unit is used for sending the detection data packet to a wireless communication network and activating the wireless transmission link.

12. The apparatus of any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein the activation module comprises:

a second generating unit, configured to generate a signaling message for activating the wireless transmission link;

and the second sending unit is used for sending the signaling message to a wireless communication network and activating the wireless transmission link.