CN111177458A

CN111177458A - Set top box multiplexing search method and related product

Info

Publication number: CN111177458A
Application number: CN201911383921.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓鹏�
Original assignee: Shenzhen Jiuzhou Electric Appliance Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Jiuzhou Electric Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-28
Filing date: 2019-12-28
Publication date: 2020-05-19

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a multiplexing search method for a set top box, the method comprising the steps of: the set-top box reports a local identifier and a locally installed application list, wherein the application list comprises: all applications that have been installed; the set top box receives local search commands of different applications sent by a server; the set top box collects search keywords, calls a local search command to search the keywords to obtain a local search result, and sends the search keywords to the server; and the set top box receives the network search result of the search keyword returned by the server and displays the local search result and the network search result. The technical scheme provided by the application has the advantage of good user experience.

Description

Set top box multiplexing search method and related product

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of networks, in particular to a multiplexing search method of a set top box and a related product.

Background

With the development of the current society, the set-top box is already intelligent, and most set-top boxes are mixed products of IP and DVB set-top boxes and have network functions. Such a large number of IP applications can be installed in a set-top box. For example, video applications for heads such as Tencent video, Aiqiyi, Youkao, and Dogeli have various application market applications, various news information applications, and many more other applications. For set-top boxes, the most common use today is video and program searching, such as searching for dramas, screening for a conutting, and then displaying the corresponding results, the user can directly select an episode. However, due to the copyright problem, not all applications have corresponding programs to be viewed, so that a user needs a different application for searching, for example, first entering a Tencent video search results in the case that Coconutus fails to transmit, and then exiting Tencent video, then entering a Youkou search results in the case that Coconutus fails to transmit, and then exiting Youkou, and then entering other application search results if Coutus fails to transmit. The process is repeated, so that the searching of the video or the program by the user is very troublesome and the experience is very poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a multiplexing search method of a set top box and a related product, which can realize that a plurality of applications search keywords and have the advantage of improving the experience of users.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a multiplexing search method for a set top box, where the method includes the following steps:

the set-top box reports a local identifier and a locally installed application list, wherein the application list comprises: all applications that have been installed;

the set top box receives local search commands of different applications sent by a server;

the set top box collects search keywords, calls a local search command to search the keywords to obtain a local search result, and sends the search keywords to the server;

and the set top box receives the network search result of the search keyword returned by the server and displays the local search result and the network search result.

In a second aspect, a method for implementing a search of a server is provided, where the method includes the following steps:

the server receives the identifier and the application list sent by the set-top box, inquires all search commands of the application list, extracts local search commands from all the search commands, and sends the local search commands to the set-top box;

the server receives a search keyword sent by the set top box and sends the search keyword to all platforms in an application list;

and the server receives the search results returned by all the platforms, summarizes the search results to obtain network search results, and sends the network search results to the set top box.

In a third aspect, a set-top box is provided, the set-top box comprising:

a transceiver unit, configured to report a local identifier and a locally installed application list, where the application list includes: all applications that have been installed; receiving local search commands of different applications issued by a server;

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring search keywords;

the processing unit is used for calling a local search command to search the keyword to obtain a local search result;

the receiving and sending unit is also used for sending the search keyword to a server; receiving a network search result of the search keyword returned by the server;

the processing unit is further configured to display the local search result and the network search result.

In a fourth aspect, a server is provided, the server comprising:

the receiving and sending unit is used for receiving the identifier and the application list sent by the set top box;

the processing unit is used for inquiring all the search commands of the application list, extracting local search commands from all the search commands and sending the local search commands to the set top box;

the receiving and sending unit is also used for receiving the search keywords sent by the set top box and sending the search keywords to all platforms in the application list; receiving search results returned by all platforms;

and the processing unit is also used for collecting the search results to obtain network search results and sending the network search results to the set top box.

In a fifth aspect, a composite search system is provided, the system comprising: a set-top box and a server, wherein,

the set-top box is used for reporting the local identifier and a locally installed application list, and the application list comprises: all applications that have been installed; receiving local search commands of different applications issued by a server; collecting search keywords, calling a local search command to search the keywords to obtain a local search result, and sending the search keywords to a server; receiving a network search result of the search keyword returned by the server, and displaying the local search result and the network search result;

the server is used for receiving the identifier and the application list sent by the set top box, inquiring all search commands of the application list, extracting local search commands from all the search commands and sending the local search commands to the set top box; receiving a search keyword sent by the set top box, and sending the search keyword to all platforms in an application list; and receiving the search results returned by all the platforms, gathering the search results to obtain network search results, and sending the network search results to the set top box.

In a third aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, which stores a program for electronic data exchange, wherein the program causes a terminal to execute the method provided in the first or second aspect.

The embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

according to the technical scheme provided by the application, a local identifier (mac address) and a locally installed application list are reported, wherein the application list comprises: all applications that have been installed; the set top box receives local search commands of different applications sent by a server; the set top box collects search keywords, calls a local search command to search the keywords to obtain a local search result, and sends the search keywords to the server; and the set top box receives the network search result of the search keyword returned by the server and displays the local search result and the network search result. Therefore, the set top box can realize local and network search of multiple applications through one keyword search, and the search efficiency and the user experience are improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are 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 creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a set-top box.

Fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a compound search system.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a multiplexing search method of a set top box.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for implementing a search of a server.

Fig. 4a is a flow chart of a set top box of the composite search method provided in the present application.

Fig. 4b is a server flowchart of the composite search method provided in the present application.

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.

The terms "first," "second," "third," and "fourth," etc. in the description and claims of the invention and in the accompanying drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order. Furthermore, the terms "include" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, result, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a set-top box disclosed in an embodiment of the present application, the set-top box 100 includes a storage and processing circuit 110, and a sensor 170 connected to the storage and processing circuit 110, the sensor 170 includes a front camera and a rear camera, where:

the set top box 100 may include control circuitry that may include storage and processing circuitry 110. The storage and processing circuitry 110 may be a memory, such as a hard drive memory, a non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory or other electronically programmable read-only memory used to form a solid state drive, etc.), a volatile memory (e.g., static or dynamic random access memory, etc.), etc., and the embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto. The processing circuitry in storage and processing circuitry 110 may be used to control the operation of set top box 100. The processing circuitry may be implemented based on one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, baseband processors, power management units, audio codec chips, application specific integrated circuits, display driver integrated circuits, and the like.

The storage and processing circuitry 110 may be used to run software in the set-top box 100 such as an Internet browsing application, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone call application, an email application, a media playing application, operating system functions, etc. Such software may be used to perform control operations such as camera-based image capture, ambient light measurement based on an ambient light sensor, proximity sensor measurement based on a proximity sensor, information display functionality based on status indicators such as status indicator lights of light emitting diodes, touch event detection based on touch sensors, functionality associated with displaying information on multiple (e.g., layered) display screens, operations associated with performing wireless communication functionality, operations associated with collecting and generating audio signals, control operations associated with collecting and processing button press event data, and other functions in set top box 100, to name a few, embodiments of the present application are not limited.

The set-top box 100 may include input-output circuitry 150. The input-output circuit 150 may be used to enable the set-top box 100 to input and output data, i.e., to allow the set-top box 100 to receive data from external devices and also to allow the set-top box 100 to output data from the set-top box 100 to external devices. The input-output circuit 150 may further include a sensor 170. The sensor 170 may further include an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor based on light and capacitance, a fingerprint recognition module, a touch sensor (e.g., a touch sensor based on light and/or a capacitive touch sensor, where the touch sensor may be a part of a touch display screen or may be used independently as a touch sensor structure), an acceleration sensor, a camera, and other sensors.

Input-output circuit 150 may also include one or more display screens, and when multiple display screens, such as 2 display screens, one display screen may be disposed on the front of the set-top box and another display screen may be disposed on the back of the set-top box, such as display screen 130. The display 130 may include one or a combination of liquid crystal display, organic light emitting diode display, electronic ink display, plasma display, display using other display technologies. The display screen 130 may include an array of touch sensors (i.e., the display screen 130 may be a touch display screen). The touch sensor may be a capacitive touch sensor formed by a transparent touch sensor electrode (e.g., an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode) array, or may be a touch sensor formed using other touch technologies, such as acoustic wave touch, pressure sensitive touch, resistive touch, optical touch, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited thereto.

The set top box 100 may also include an audio component 140. The audio component 140 may be used to provide audio input and output functionality for the set top box 100. The audio components 140 in the set top box 100 may include speakers, microphones, buzzers, tone generators, and other components for generating and detecting sound.

The communication circuit 120 may be used to provide the set top box 100 with the ability to communicate with external devices. The communication circuit 120 may include analog and digital input-output interface circuits, and wireless communication circuits based on radio frequency signals and/or optical signals. The wireless communication circuitry in communication circuitry 120 may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry, power amplifier circuitry, low noise amplifiers, switches, filters, and antennas. For example, the wireless Communication circuitry in Communication circuitry 120 may include circuitry to support Near Field Communication (NFC) by transmitting and receiving Near Field coupled electromagnetic signals. For example, the communication circuit 120 may include a near field communication antenna and a near field communication transceiver. The communications circuitry 120 may also include a cellular telephone transceiver and antenna, a wireless local area network transceiver circuitry and antenna, and so forth.

The set-top box 100 may further include a battery, power management circuitry and other input-output units 160. The input-output unit 160 may include buttons, joysticks, click wheels, scroll wheels, touch pads, keypads, keyboards, cameras, light emitting diodes and other status indicators, and the like.

A user may control the operation of set-top box 100 by entering commands through input-output circuitry 150 and may use output data from input-output circuitry 150 to enable receiving status information and other outputs from set-top box 100.

Referring to fig. 1a, fig. 1a provides a schematic diagram of a composite search system, as shown in fig. 1a, the playing system includes: the set top box is connected with the server through a network.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 provides a multiplexing search method of a set-top box, which is performed by the set-top box shown in fig. 1. The method, as shown in fig. 2, includes the following steps:

step S201, the set-top box reports a local identifier (mac address) and a locally installed application list, wherein the application list comprises: all applications that have been installed;

step S202, the set top box receives local search commands of different applications issued by the server;

step S203, the set top box collects search keywords, calls a local search command to search the keywords to obtain a local search result, and sends the search keywords to a server;

and step S204, the set top box receives the network search result of the search keyword returned by the server and displays the local search result and the network search result.

Optionally, the displaying the local search result and the web search result may specifically include:

and displaying the local search result and the network search result in a split screen mode. The specific implementation may be that the local search may be on the left screen and the web search result may be on the right screen.

and displaying the local search result and the network search result according to the application classification. For example, Tencent is displayed in one category and Youke is displayed in one category.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 provides a method for implementing a search of a server, which supports the implementation of the method shown in fig. 2, and the method shown in fig. 3 includes the following steps:

step S301, the server receives the identifier (mac) and the application list sent by the set top box, inquires all search commands of the application list, extracts local search commands from all search commands, and sends the local search commands to the set top box;

step 302, the server receives the search keyword sent by the set-top box and sends the search keyword to all platforms in the application list;

and step S303, the server receives the search results returned by all the platforms, summarizes the search results to obtain network search results, and sends the network search results to the set top box.

The method provided by the embodiment shown in fig. 3 implements the method of the set-top box shown in fig. 2, and improves the user experience.

Optionally, the aggregating the search results to obtain the network search results may specifically include:

deleting platform results with empty search results in the plurality of platforms, and summarizing actual results in the plurality of platforms into network search results.

Referring to fig. 4a, fig. 4a is a flow chart of a set top box of a composite search method, the flow is as follows:

1. and the set top box reports the corresponding mac and all applications installed at present to the server.

2. The server returns commands for different applications that can locally perform local searches.

3. The set top box receives a search instruction of a user.

4. The set-top box reports the search keywords to the server.

5. The set-top box searches for local content.

6. And the set top box acquires the results of local search of other applications by using the search command returned by the server.

7. And obtaining a result searched by the server and a jump instruction corresponding to the result.

8. And compounding the local search result and the result returned by the server for display. (if the server returns a result that is overtime, the local search result is displayed.)

9. And executing a command after the user selects the search result.

Referring to fig. 4b, fig. 4b is a server flowchart of a composite search method, which includes the following steps:

1. and the server receives the information of the installation application uploaded by the set top box and correspondingly stores the information according to the mac address of the set top box.

2. The server queries and returns commands that can be searched locally by third party applications.

3. A keyword search request is received from the set-top box.

4. And searching a third party application server needing the requested return information according to the set top box mac.

5. And sending the keywords to a third-party server to wait for a return result.

6. And returning results returned by all the third-party servers to the set-top box terminal. (all results are returned within the timeout period, and if some servers time out and do not return results, the data of the returned results are sent to the set-top box).

The present application further provides a set-top box, the set-top box comprising:

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring search keywords;

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

and the processing unit is also used for displaying the local search result and the network search result in a split screen mode.

Alternatively to this, the first and second parts may,

and the processing unit is also used for displaying the local search result and the network search result according to application classification.

The present application further provides a server, comprising:

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer storage medium, wherein the computer storage medium stores a computer program for electronic data exchange, and the computer program enables a computer to execute part or all of the steps of any one of the methods described in the above method embodiments.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program operable to cause a computer to perform some or all of the steps of any one of the methods as recited in the above method embodiments.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the above-mentioned method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the invention. Further, those skilled in the art should also appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are exemplary embodiments and that the acts and modules illustrated are not necessarily required to practice the invention.

In the foregoing embodiments, 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 apparatus may be implemented in other manners. For example, the above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one type of division of logical functions, and there may be other divisions when actually implementing, 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 not implemented. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection of some interfaces, devices or units, and may be an electric 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 network 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 may be implemented in the form of hardware, or may be implemented in the form of a software program module.

The integrated units, if implemented in the form of software program modules and sold or used as stand-alone products, may be stored in a computer readable memory. 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 memory and includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned memory comprises: 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.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that all or part of the steps in the methods of the above embodiments may be implemented by associated hardware instructed by a program, which may be stored in a computer-readable memory, which may include: flash Memory disks, Read-Only memories (ROMs), Random Access Memories (RAMs), magnetic or optical disks, and the like.

The above embodiments of the present invention are described in detail, and the principle and the implementation of the present invention are explained by applying specific embodiments, and the above description of the embodiments is only used to help understanding the method of the present invention and the core idea thereof; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A multiplexing search method of a set top box is characterized by comprising the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the local search results and the web search results specifically comprises:

and displaying the local search result and the network search result in a split screen mode.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the local search results and the web search results specifically comprises:

and displaying the local search result and the network search result according to the application classification.

4. A method for realizing search of a server is characterized by comprising the following steps:

5. A set top box, comprising:

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring search keywords;

6. The set top box of claim 5,

7. The set top box of claim 5,

8. A server, characterized in that the server comprises:

9. A composite search system, the system comprising: a set-top box and a server, wherein,

10. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for electronic data exchange, wherein the program causes a method provided in any one of claims 1-4 to be performed.