CN111491317B

CN111491317B - Communication method and device

Info

Publication number: CN111491317B
Application number: CN202010306794.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 不公告发明人
Original assignee: Lakala Payment Co ltd
Current assignee: Lakala Payment Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-17
Filing date: 2020-04-17
Publication date: 2021-10-19
Anticipated expiration: 2040-04-17
Also published as: CN111491317A

Abstract

The embodiment discloses a communication method and device, and relates to the field of communication. Wherein, the method comprises the following steps: when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, all communication parties exchange communication scheduling plans; the communication schedule plan includes at least one communication time slot; and determining an optimal communication time slot and an optimal communication party for sending the payment communication request according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion.

Description

Communication method and device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a communication method and apparatus.

Background

Internet payments are seemingly just an electronic account, and the back of a real electronic account still relies on traditional currency and the bank's settlement system. Digital Currency, especially Digital current Electronic money (DCEP), refers to legal Currency issued by a central bank, technically supported by cryptography, and represented by encrypted Digital strings representing specific amounts; digital currency means the digitization of the entire flow from issuance to payment, compared to electronic currency.

To actively implement currency digitization, china assumes that it is possible to provide a lower migration threshold while maintaining the existing basic investment of commercial banks; for example, an operator, such as a commercial bank or a third party payment institution such as a laccarat, may make a direct currency exchange with the central bank; further, the general user can exchange and use digital money through the operator.

Since digital currency is free from reliance on traditional french coins, this means that digital currency exists for electronic devices; furthermore, since payment in digital currency requires passing through the service system of the commercial bank, it means that any electronic device using digital currency must be connected to a network to complete the payment.

Whether a digital currency application program running in a smart phone or related services of processing digital currency by using low-power consumption internet of things payment equipment needs to initiate a communication session for small data volume, and the communication session enabling frequency is high. However, in the prior art, since the power consumption of the radio frequency circuit and the baseband circuit is often high in the device, running one wireless communication session for one digital currency service means a large power consumption. Therefore, a low-power consumption communication method suitable for light-weight digital currency and other related services is needed.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above technical problems in the prior art, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and apparatus, which can solve the problems in the prior art, such as high wireless call enabling frequency and high communication overhead.

A first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a communication method, including:

when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, all communication parties exchange communication scheduling plans; the communication schedule plan includes at least one communication time slot;

and determining an optimal communication time slot and an optimal communication party for sending the payment communication request according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and when the optimal communication party is inconsistent with the communication party which initiates the communication request firstly, sending a payment communication request through the optimal communication party.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: the optimal communication party receives and stores the digital currency character string sent by the communication party which initiates the communication request firstly, and regenerates the payment communication request according to the digital currency character string.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: determining the optimal communication time slot in a communication scheduling plan of each communication party; the optimal communication time slot is closest to and after the time of initiating the payment communication request.

In some embodiments, the communication party corresponding to the communication scheduling plan in which the optimal communication time slot is located is taken as the optimal communication party.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: and any communication party pre-judges the sending time of the payment communication request according to the acquired communication scheduling plans of other communication parties.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises: when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, if the communication scheduling plans of other communication parties are temporarily changed, the communication party initiating the payment communication request directly starts a communication session to send the payment communication request.

In some embodiments, the communicants have at least near field communication functions and/or wireless communication functions.

In some embodiments, the communication partners are also connected to the server via a wired/wireless network.

A second aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication apparatus, including:

the exchange plan module is used for exchanging a communication scheduling plan by each communication party when any communication party initiates a payment communication request; the communication schedule plan includes at least one communication time slot;

and the determining module is used for determining the optimal communication time slot and the optimal communication party for sending the payment communication request according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides an electronic device, including:

a memory and one or more processors;

wherein the memory is communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, and the memory stores instructions executable by the one or more processors, and when the instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the electronic device is configured to implement the method according to the foregoing embodiments.

A fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by a computing device, may be used to implement the method according to the foregoing embodiments.

A fifth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure provides a computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions which, when executed by a computer, are operable to implement a method as in the preceding embodiments.

The beneficial effects of the embodiment of the disclosure are: when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, each communication party exchanges a communication scheduling plan containing at least one communication time slot, and determines an optimal communication time slot and an optimal communication party according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion, so that the initiation frequency of wireless communication sessions is greatly reduced, the communication overhead is greatly reduced, and the experience is good.

Drawings

The features and advantages of the present disclosure will be more clearly understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which are illustrative and not to be construed as limiting the disclosure in any way, and in which:

fig. 1 is a flow chart illustrating a method of communication according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of a correspondent and a communication dispatch plan, shown in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a correspondent and a communication dispatch plan, shown in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a communication device and a communication system therein according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a communication device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

In the following detailed description, numerous specific details of the disclosure are set forth by way of examples in order to provide a thorough understanding of the relevant disclosure. However, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that the present disclosure may be practiced without these specific details. It should be understood that the use of the terms "system," "apparatus," "unit" and/or "module" in this disclosure is a method for distinguishing between different components, elements, portions or assemblies at different levels of sequence. However, these terms may be replaced by other expressions if they can achieve the same purpose.

It will be understood that when a device, unit or module is referred to as being "on" … … "," connected to "or" coupled to "another device, unit or module, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to or in communication with the other device, unit or module, or intervening devices, units or modules may be present, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. For example, as used in this disclosure, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

The terminology used in the present disclosure is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. As used in the specification and claims of this disclosure, the terms "a," "an," "the," and/or "the" are not intended to be inclusive in the singular, but rather are inclusive in the plural, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In general, the terms "comprises" and "comprising" are intended to cover only the explicitly identified features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but not to constitute an exclusive list of such features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components.

These and other features and characteristics of the present disclosure, as well as the methods of operation and functions of the related elements of structure and the combination of parts and economies of manufacture, will be better understood by reference to the following description and drawings, which form a part of this specification. It is to be expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the disclosure. It will be understood that the figures are not drawn to scale.

Various block diagrams are used in this disclosure to illustrate various variations of embodiments according to the disclosure. It should be understood that the foregoing and following structures are not intended to limit the present disclosure. The protection scope of the present disclosure is subject to the claims.

At present, internet payment is seemingly just an electronic account, and the back of the electronic account is still dependent on traditional currency and a bank settlement system. Digital Currency, especially regulated Digital Currency (DC/EP), refers to legal Currency issued by a central bank, technically supported by cryptography, represented by encrypted Digital strings representing specific amounts; digital currency means the digitization of the entire flow from issuance to payment, compared to electronic currency.

Since digital currency is free from reliance on traditional currency, this means that digital currency exists for electronic devices; furthermore, since payment in digital currency requires passing through the service system of the commercial bank, it means that any electronic device using digital currency must be connected to a network to complete the payment.

Digital currency related traffic produces smaller amounts of data, which means that digital currency wallets can be smaller, less energy intensive and more flexible than traditional payment applications (e.g., laccarat apps, pay-off treasures, wechat, etc.). Also due to The development of 5G IoT (The Internet of things) technology, it is envisioned that a large number of low cost and low power payment devices with computing and communication capabilities will come into existence in The future, such as e.g. automatic toll collection devices placed in unmanned shops.

However, whether a digital currency application program running in a smart phone or a related service processing digital currency using a low-power internet of things payment device requires a wireless communication session to be initiated for a small data volume. However, in the prior art, since the power consumption of the radio frequency circuit and the baseband circuit is often high in the device, running one wireless communication session for one digital currency service means a large power consumption. Therefore, a low-power consumption communication method suitable for light-weight digital currency and other related services is needed. Therefore, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a communication method, specifically as shown in fig. 1, including:

s101, when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, all communication parties exchange a communication scheduling plan; the communication schedule plan includes at least one communication time slot;

s102, determining an optimal communication time slot and an optimal communication party sending the payment communication request according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion.

In some embodiments, the payment communication request is sent by the optimal correspondent when the optimal correspondent is not the same as the correspondent that initiated the communication request first.

In some embodiments, the optimal correspondent receives and stores the string of digital currency from the correspondent that first initiated the communication request, and regenerates the payment communication request in accordance with the string of digital currency.

In some embodiments, the optimal communication time slot is determined in a communication scheduling plan of each communication party; the optimal communication time slot is closest to and after the time of initiating the payment communication request.

In some embodiments, any communication party pre-judges the sending time of the payment communication request according to the acquired communication scheduling plan of other communication parties.

In some embodiments, when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, if the communication scheduling plan of other communication parties changes temporarily, the communication party initiating the payment communication request directly initiates a communication session to send the payment communication request.

In some embodiments, the parties have digital currency payment capabilities including, but not limited to, smart phones, NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) devices, and the like.

In some embodiments, as shown in FIG. 2, both communicating parties (device A, device B) have digital currency payment capabilities; device a may be a smartphone and device B is an NB-IoT payee device (or both NB-IoT devices). The time shown by the dotted line in fig. 2 is the time when the transaction is initiated, device a initiates a payment communication request (e.g., a digital currency transaction request, i.e., device a initiates a transfer to device B) with device B, when device a and device B communicate through a near field communication function (e.g., NFC), the time when device a and device B exchange both parties 'communication schedules (shown on the right side of fig. 2) in communication is between communication time slot 1 and communication time slot 2 of device a's communication schedule at the time when the transaction is initiated, and the time when the transaction is initiated is before communication schedule time slot 1 of device B. With predefined communication slot decision criteria, device a and device B will determine that the transmission of the payment communication request is completed by device B, since device B's communication slot 1 is closest to the time the transaction was initiated. Further, device a sends the locally stored string of digital currency to device B, which locally stores the associated digital currency and regenerates the payment communication request.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, a communication party device a sends two payment communication request transactions 1 and 2 (which may be, for example, two transaction requests including payment and collection operations) prior to communication time slot 1, and upon arrival of communication time slot 1 of device a, device a establishes a communication link with the carrier server and completes registration (payment) and digital currency verification (collection). The currency verification may not be completed because the communication party (e.g., device B) conducting the transaction with device a may not be networked yet, but device a may verify the currency that has not completed the currency verification by sending a verification request at the next communication time slot 2 because device a has already obtained the other party's dispatch plan at the time of receiving the transaction, i.e., the time at which the other party will initiate the payment message is pre-determined, e.g., device a knows that device B has a time slot between communication time slot 1 and communication time slot 2. It can be seen that, because the communication parties exchange the communication scheduling plan, the communication parties can save a large amount of communication overhead during communication, and a plurality of communication requests are sent out in a concentrated manner in communication time slots.

In some embodiments, when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, if the communication scheduling plan of other communication parties changes temporarily, the communication party initiating the payment communication request may initiate an emergency communication session. For example, the user initiates a request for digital currency conversion through device a, and since the request for digital currency conversion means that all the digital currency stored in the user device has been paid, the entire conversion process needs to be completed in time, at which point the device will directly initiate a communication session, at which point the information expected to be sent through the communication time slot may be sent to the operator through the current communication session.

The disclosed embodiment discloses that each communication party with digital currency payment capability generates a payment communication Scheduling Plan (Scheduling Plan) comprising at least one predefined Slot (Slot) for sending payment communication requests (payment related traffic). When payment is initiated, a communication party (user terminal) obtains a communication scheduling plan of each communication party and judges an optimal time slot for payment initiation and an optimal payment terminal. Specifically, the optimal timeslot and the optimal terminal for sending the service can be completed through a preset judgment criterion. Since digital money is an encrypted string, even if the payment terminal does not initiate communication with the operator server in the transaction, the digital money is digitally transferred from one terminal to another and associated payment and receipt instructions are generated. When the device is connected to the server of the operator through the communication slot, the terminal completes the registration of the relevant money.

The embodiment of the disclosure also discloses a communication device, which is developed aiming at a special scene based on a controlled digital currency architecture and is different from the application scene of the traditional electronic device. Since the main application scenario for managing digital currency is cash wallet currency, a new Communication device is a small-sized digital currency wallet device, which has a Near Field Communication (NFC) function to facilitate offline payment and collection, and has limited wireless Communication capability to access the internet, specifically to access a server of a digital currency operator to complete the grade and exchange of digital currency, through a wired Network or a wireless local area Network (WLAN, Bluetooth) or a Cellular Communication Network (Cellular Network). A schematic diagram of a communication device and a communication system in which the communication device is located is shown in fig. 4. Wherein, digital currency electron wallet (novel communications facilities) includes three modules at least: the near field communication module comprises a memory, a near field communication module and a wireless communication module; the memory is used for storing digital currency character strings, the near field communication module can be NFC, and the wireless communication module can be NB-IoT. The digital currency electronic purse is accessed to the network through the wireless local area network and is connected with a commercial bank server, and the commercial bank server is connected with a central bank server to issue/recycle currency; the commercial bank server comprises a personal digital currency account and a personal electronic account. By adopting the device, the communication party can greatly reduce the starting frequency of the wireless communication session and greatly reduce the power consumption of the communication device.

The embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a communication apparatus 500, as shown in fig. 5, including:

an exchange plan module 501, configured to, when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, exchange a communication scheduling plan among the communication parties; the communication schedule plan includes at least one communication time slot;

a determining module 502, configured to determine an optimal communication timeslot and an optimal communication party sending the payment communication request according to the time of initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion.

Referring to fig. 6, a schematic diagram of an electronic device provided for an embodiment of the present disclosure, the electronic device 600 includes:

memory 630 and one or more processors 610;

wherein the memory 630 is communicatively coupled to the one or more processors 610, the memory 630 having stored therein instructions 632 executable by the one or more processors 610, the instructions 632 being executable by the one or more processors 610 to cause the one or more processors 610 to perform the methods of the foregoing embodiments of the present application.

Specifically, the processor 610 and the memory 630 may be connected by a bus or other means, and fig. 6 illustrates an example of a connection by the bus 640. Processor 610 may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The Processor 610 may also be other general purpose processors, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or other Programmable logic devices, discrete Gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, or combinations thereof.

The memory 630, as a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, may be used for storing non-transitory software programs, non-transitory computer executable programs, and modules, such as the cascaded progressive network in the embodiments of the present application. The processor 610 executes various functional applications of the processor and data processing by executing non-transitory software programs, instructions, and modules 632 stored in the memory 630.

The memory 630 may include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function; the storage data area may store data created by the processor 610, and the like. Further, the memory 630 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-transitory memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-transitory solid state storage device. In some embodiments, memory 630 optionally includes memory located remotely from processor 610, which may be connected to processor 610 via a network, such as through communications interface 620. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, in which computer-executable instructions are stored, and the computer-executable instructions are executed to perform the method in the foregoing embodiment of the present application.

The foregoing computer-readable storage media include physical volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any manner or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. The computer-readable storage medium specifically includes, but is not limited to, a USB flash drive, a removable hard drive, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), an erasable programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), flash Memory or other solid state Memory technology, a CD-ROM, a Digital Versatile Disk (DVD), an HD-DVD, a Blue-Ray or other optical storage, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by a computer.

While the subject matter described herein is provided in the general context of execution in conjunction with the execution of an operating system and application programs on a computer system, those skilled in the art will recognize that other implementations may also be performed in combination with other types of program modules. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, components, data structures, and other types of structures that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the subject matter described herein may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including hand-held devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like, as well as distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and method steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

In summary, the present disclosure provides a communication method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium thereof. When any communication party initiates a payment communication request, each communication party exchanges a communication scheduling plan containing at least one communication time slot, and determines an optimal communication time slot and an optimal communication party according to the time for initiating the payment communication request and a preset judgment criterion, so that the initiation frequency of wireless communication sessions is greatly reduced, the communication overhead is greatly reduced, and the experience is good.

It is to be understood that the above-described specific embodiments of the present disclosure are merely illustrative of or illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure and are not to be construed as limiting the present disclosure. Accordingly, any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement or the like made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure should be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure. Further, it is intended that the following claims cover all such variations and modifications that fall within the scope and bounds of the appended claims, or equivalents of such scope and bounds.

Claims

1. A method of communication, comprising:

each communication party generates a communication scheduling plan;

when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, all communication parties exchange the communication scheduling plan; the communication scheduling plan comprises at least one communication time slot, a communication party sends two payment communication request transactions before the communication time slot, and when the communication time slot of the communication party comes, the communication party establishes a communication link with an operator server and completes registration and digital currency verification;

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: and when the optimal communication party is inconsistent with the communication party which initiates the communication request firstly, sending a payment communication request through the optimal communication party.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: the optimal communication party receives and stores the digital currency character string sent by the communication party which initiates the communication request firstly, and regenerates the payment communication request according to the digital currency character string.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining the optimal communication time slot in a communication scheduling plan of each communication party; the optimal communication time slot is closest to and after the time of initiating the payment communication request.

5. The method according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the communication party corresponding to the communication scheduling plan in which the optimal communication time slot is located is used as the optimal communication party.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: and any communication party pre-judges the sending time of the payment communication request according to the acquired communication scheduling plans of other communication parties.

7. The method of claim 1 or 6, further comprising: when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, if the communication scheduling plans of other communication parties are temporarily changed, the communication party initiating the payment communication request directly starts a communication session to send the payment communication request.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the communication parties has at least a near field communication function and/or a wireless communication function.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the communicating parties is further connected to the server via a wired/wireless network.

10. A communications apparatus, comprising:

the exchange plan module is used for generating a communication scheduling plan by each communication party; when any communication party initiates a payment communication request, all communication parties exchange the communication scheduling plan; the communication scheduling plan comprises at least one communication time slot, a communication party sends two payment communication request transactions before the communication time slot, and when the communication time slot of the communication party comes, the communication party establishes a communication link with an operator server and completes registration and digital currency verification;