TW201305985A - Method of providing contents for mobile computing device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of providing contents for a mobile computing device, wherein an application program is installed in the mobile computing device and the mobile computing device wirelessly links to an internet comprising an application web page, comprising: embedding the application web page in the application program which renders the application program communicating with the application web page in real time; rendering the application web page under the control of the application program and enabling the application web page communicating with the application program; and rendering the application web page acting as an operating interface for the application program.

Description

Content providing method of mobile computing device

The present invention relates to a content providing method for a mobile computing device, and more particularly to a method for embedding an application web page for use in an application on a mobile computing device.

In recent years, with the advancement of technology, the original large-scale Global Positioning System (GPS) chip module has been miniaturized and installed in various mobile computing devices, such as smart phones, handheld mobile devices or Within the handheld computing device and the like, the GPS function is also a standard function of various mobile computing devices.

In the case of today's various mobile computing devices, the mobile computing device can be directly connected to various mobile networking technologies, such as GPRS networking unit, 3G networked unit and 3.5G networked unit. Linked to the Internet, so after the GPS function is added to the mobile computing device and the networking function, many mature geo-based services have been developed. The most widely used is the location-based service (Location Based Service, LBS), which provides various types of information related to spatial location.

In simple terms, the suitability service uses a current location or a hypothetical current location as a reference point, and provides the user with application information within a specific range around the reference point. The type of the application information may be a photo, an image, or The text and other types are all-encompassing, such as travel information, food information, traffic information, entertainment information, etc. This kind of local service can be realized on mobile computing devices with GPS and mobile networking functions.

However, for the service of the locality, if you want to be close to the consumer, you must be able to provide application information to the large area as much as possible. For example, it is conceivable to provide complete application information for the entire Changhua County or Taiwan. These rich application information needs to be sorted in advance, and it will need to use a large-capacity storage device. However, for the mobile computing device, in order to enable the user to carry it lightly, it is designed to Lightweight and convenient, the mobile computing device itself cannot be too large. Under such miniaturization, most of the space on the mobile computing device is still used to configure the core processing chip module, battery, and touch display. The key components such as the interface, the memory component is usually just an SD card with 8G capacity, but this capacity can not store the aforementioned application information at all, for the user to access at any time.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method that can reduce the dependence of the mobile computing device on the memory component, so that the mobile computing device only focuses on the operation and processing, and stores a large amount of application information in an appropriate place for the mobile computing device to store at any time. take. For the sake of the job, the applicant, based on the lack of knowledge in the prior art, has carefully tested and researched, and has a perseverance in mind, and finally conceived the "method of providing content for mobile computing devices" in this case, which can overcome the above shortcomings. A brief description of the case.

In order to reduce the dependence of the mobile computing device on the memory component, the mobile computing device only focuses on the operation and processing, and stores a large amount of application information in an appropriate place for the mobile computing device to access at any time. The present invention proposes an action operation. The application (App) on the device instantly connects to the application page of the remote end, but at the same time, the application webpage is placed under the control of the App, and the App can be executed between the App and the embedded application webpage. Instant interaction, when any data changes in the application webpage or changes in the layout of the webpage format, it will immediately respond to the app, and the user can immediately operate the application webpage via the App, and the application webpage can also immediately operate the webpage. Respond.

By embedding an application webpage in an app through such instant connection, the mobile computing device does not need to provide a large-capacity storage device to store a large amount of information provided by the application webpage, such as text, photos, The image or geographic information (Geo-info) only needs to be stored on the server corresponding to the application webpage, and then provided to the user via the Internet transmission according to the access instruction sent by the user via the App; Moreover, since the App has been synchronized with the application webpage, the user can get the latest information from the application webpage at any time without any time lag.

Therefore, according to a first aspect of the present invention, a content providing method for a mobile computing device is provided, the mobile computing device is installed with an application and wirelessly connected to an Internet, the Internet includes an application webpage, and the method includes Embedding the application webpage in the application to enable instant communication between the application and the application webpage; placing the application webpage under the control of the application; and using the content of the application webpage as the application Operation interface.

Preferably, the method further includes selecting a point of interest via the application webpage; providing a plurality of point of interest operations associated with the point of interest via the application; and selecting one of the point of interest operations.

Preferably, the method further includes obtaining, by the application, a first latitude and longitude coordinate of a reference point; obtaining a second latitude and longitude coordinate of a point of interest via the application webpage; the application opening and providing the first and second The latitude and longitude coordinates are given to the navigation program; and the navigation program is caused to move from the first latitude and longitude coordinates to the navigation of the second latitude and longitude coordinates.

The present invention will be fully understood by the following examples, so that those skilled in the art can do so. However, the implementation of the present invention may not be limited by the following embodiments.

Please refer to the first figure, which is a schematic diagram of the architecture of an embodiment of the present invention. The current position of the mobile computing device 100 in the first figure is the in-situ position ISP. The local location ISP has a latitude and longitude coordinate P1, and the local location ISP is used as a reference point, and the reference point is centered radially. Extending the straight line distance as the radius of interest (ROI), and delineating a field of interest (FOI), the focus area FOI includes more than one point of interest POI (point of interest), the point of interest POI Has a latitude and longitude coordinate P2.

The mobile computing device 100 is preferably a smart phone, a tablet computer, a portable computing device or a handheld computing device. The mobile computing device 100 preferably includes a telecommunication communication unit, a GPS signal receiving unit, a mobile network unit, and a touch display unit. Interface (touch display panel, touch screen), central processing unit, etc.; GPS signal receiving unit (not shown) receives GPS signals transmitted from the plurality of GPS satellites 110, thereby calculating the local location of the mobile device 100 The location ISP is the location P1; the mobile network unit (not shown), through the mobile network unit of transmission and reception (transmit/receive), the mobile computing device 100 can provide wireless networking functions, and is also available to users. Linking to the Internet 120, for example, the cloud network, and accessing the webpage data in the server 130, the mobile networking unit is preferably a GPRS network unit, a 3G network unit, a 3.5G network unit, or a 4G network. A unit, a Wi-Fi network unit or a WiMAX network unit; an application program is installed in the central processing unit of the mobile computing device 100.

In actual life, when the user of the mobile computing device 100 generates an interest in the POI of the attention point FOI, it may be desirable to perform more attention operations on the POI of the attention point, and obtain more POIs of interest. Relevant information, such as: how to move from the local location ISP to the navigation information of the POI of interest, browse the surrounding map of the POI of the point of interest, path planning based on the point of interest, further obtain, browse the video associated with the POI of the point of interest (videos) ), audio (audios), image (image), album album (album) or web page information, etc., proximity information of the POI of the point of interest, etc., can be operated via the center of the mobile computing device 100. The application App installed in the processing unit serves as a service platform, and the user executes the focus operation method for the mobile device of the present invention by operating the application App to achieve the aforementioned focus operation.

Please continue to refer to the second figure, which is a schematic diagram of the interaction structure between the application and the application webpage of the present invention. The application App of the method can perform real-time interaction with the corresponding application webpage WebPage, and the mobile computing device 100 accesses the server 130 via the Internet 120, and embeds the application webpage Webpage set on the server 130 into the application. In the App, and placed under the control of the application App, so that the application in the application page and the application page WebPage can generate instant communication (communication in real time), then apply any changes in the Web page of the WebPage Or the changes in the layout of the web page will be immediately reflected in the application App. The user can immediately operate the application webpage via the application app, and the application webpage can immediately respond to the operation.

It should be noted that the database of the application webpage app may be directly stored on the server 130, or may be additionally stored on other databases connected to the server 130, and the data in the database includes general data and geographic information. (Geo-info) information.

The application App can obtain the latitude and longitude coordinates P1 of the local location ISP where the mobile computing device 100 is located via the GPS signal receiving unit, or can obtain the local location at any time via the GPS signal receiving unit, or record the moving track, and if necessary, The foregoing various latitude and longitude coordinate data are provided to the application webpage WebPage; the application App can also completely control the application webpage Webpage, and has the mastership of the application webpage Webpage, for example, can control the page change of the application webpage Webpage, including: the previous page, On the next page or back to the home page, and rearrange, etc.; the application app can also provide the required parameters to the application web page, such as the resolution, width, height, etc. of the touch interface of the mobile computing device for supply. Web page WebPage adjusts the display size.

After the application webpage is embedded in the application application, it can be directly displayed as an operation interface of the application application, and displayed on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100. The application webpage stores a plurality of rich information related to the POI of the attention point. This information has been sorted in the application webpage WebPage. When the application app is connected to the application webpage, the user can access the rich information, and if there is any change in the information, the user can also Synchronize to get updated information right away.

By using the aforementioned technology for instant connection and remote end of the application webpage WebPage in the application App, the mobile computing device does not need to set a large-capacity storage device to store the large amount of information, and further, the application The program app has been synchronized with the application webpage, so at any time, the user can get the latest update information from the application webpage at any time without any gap.

Please refer to the third figures (a)-(c), which are flowcharts of the method of operation of the present invention for the mobile computing device, and refer to the fourth figure (a)-(f), respectively. It is a schematic diagram of the operation interface of the application of the present invention. The focus operation method for the mobile computing device of the present invention includes the following steps: Step 3000: Turn on the GPS signal receiving unit in the mobile computing device 100; Step 3010: Install the application App on the mobile computing device 100, the application The application is a mobile computing device executable program, and then the application App on the mobile computing device 100 is turned on; Step 3020: The mobile computing device 100 is connected to the Internet 120, and the application App is connected to the server via the Internet 120. The application webpage Webpage on 130; step 3030: embedding the application webpage into the application App and placing the application webpage under the control of the application App, so that the application App and the application webpage can interact instantly; Step 3040: The application App accesses the application web page and causes the application web page to be displayed on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100 as an operation interface of the application App.

As shown in the fourth diagram (a), the mobile computing device 100 is connected to the application webpage WebPage via the application App, and displays the first page of the application webpage Webpage on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100, and uses the front page as an operation interface. In this way, an instant interaction can be established between the application application and the application webpage, and at the same time, under the display content in the fourth diagram (a), there is a control column C, which is provided by the application App. Located at the top of the display, it includes: "Previous page", "Next page", "Home page", "I am here" and "More" buttons, etc., through which the user can control the column C Pressing the button to control the remote application webpage Webpage displayed on the touch interface, thereby placing the application webpage WebPage under the control of the application App; in this embodiment, the application webpage is a Cmoremap webpage as an example. The application App is a URL that links to http://pda.cmoremap.com.tw/ , which represents the application web page. Therefore, the application webpage is mainly to provide most of the display content and pre-measurement or storage information to the application App.

Step 3050: Determine whether the GPS signal receiving unit can receive the GPS signal. Step 3060: In the case that the GPS signal receiving unit determines that the GPS signal can be normally received, the mobile computing device 100 starts to receive the GPS signal and calculates the location location ISP according to the location. The latitude and longitude coordinate P1 is used as a reference point; Step 3070: If the GPS signal receiving unit cannot receive the GPS signal normally, the application App provides the user to select another arbitrary location as the reference point; Step 3080: Determine the FOI of interest centering on the reference point The application app provides a plurality of adjacent information sorted and sorted in the FOI of the attention range, preferably, for example, a directory display, for the user to select the POI of the focus.

As shown in the fourth diagram (b), the application App determines that the GPS signal receiving unit of the mobile computing device 100 can receive the GPS signal, and then obtains the calculated latitude and longitude coordinates P1, and the application App transmits the latitude and longitude coordinates P1 as parameters to the application. In the webpage Webpage, the application webpage Webpage converts the latitude and longitude coordinates P1 into actual addresses. In this embodiment, the converted actual address is "500 Jieshou North Road, Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan", and then returns it to the action. The computing device 10 is then displayed on the webpage, and at the same time, in the form of the directory, multiple pieces of neighboring information in the FOI range corresponding to the location location ISP appearing on the webpage are displayed on the webpage, and the neighboring information is based on the travels, news, attractions, merchants. It is organized into categories such as transportation services and recommended channels, and is presented as a catalogue in different icons. The two categories of attractions and businesses are the more common categories, and users can select the appropriate categories according to their own needs.

Step 3090: The user selects the POI of interest, and the application app provides options for the operation of the focus, such as: map, proximity information, navigation, more information, video, webpage or blog. In conjunction with the fourth figure (c), the user selects the category of the attraction/service, and then the touch interface will continue to display the POI of the point of interest included in the attraction/service, including Huahong in this embodiment. Palace], [Nan Tiangong], [Baguashan Yinqiao] and [Tzuji Temple], etc., then please refer to the fourth picture (d), the user further selects [Huahong Palace] as the selected focus POI, touch The interface displays the plural options for the POI operation of [Huahonggong]. The options for these POI operations are preferably presented by means of buttons, including: maps, proximity information, navigation, more information, etc., as shown in the fourth figure. (d) As disclosed, it is of course possible to further add options for POI operations such as video, web pages, and blogs.

Step 3100: Next, the user selects the required focus operation option from among the POI operation options according to the requirement; Step 3110: Take the navigation focus operation as an example, the user selects the navigation focus operation; Step 3120 The application webpage provides the latitude and longitude coordinates P2 of the selected point of interest POI to the application app in response to the user's attention point operation, and the latitude and longitude coordinates P2 of the selected point of interest POI are pre-measured and stored in the application webpage WebPage or its database. Step 3130: The application App receives the latitude and longitude coordinates P2 provided by the application webpage Webpage, and then opens another external navigation program by, for example, calling, arousing, starting or triggering; step 3140: the application App will be in place The latitude and longitude coordinates P1 of the position and the latitude and longitude coordinates P2 of the selected point of interest POI are transmitted as parameters to the external navigation program; Step 3150: The external navigation program receives the latitude and longitude coordinates P1 and P2, and accordingly, the navigation path is planned and displayed on the mobile computing device 100 touch interface.

In conjunction with the fourth figure (e), the user selects the POI operation of the navigation, so pressing the navigation button in the operation interface of the fourth figure (d), the application App launches the external navigation program and coordinates the latitude and longitude coordinates P1 and P2. In the embodiment, the wheremap navigation software is taken as an example. After receiving the parameters provided by the application App, the wheremap will plan the navigation path and display it on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100. .

Step 3160: Taking the attention point operation of browsing the surrounding map of the POI of the point of interest as an example, the user selects the focus operation of the map; Step 3170: The application web page provides the application application with the physical address of the selected POI, in response to the use. The point of interest operation, the physical address of the selected point of interest POI is pre-established and stored in the application webpage WebPage or its database; step 3180: the application App receives the physical address provided by the application webpage Webpage, and then for example: Calling, arousing, starting or triggering, opening another external geographic map program; Step 3190: The application App transmits the physical address of the selected POI of the selected point of interest as a parameter to the external geographic map asset; Step 3200: The external geographic map program receives the physical address and displays the surrounding map of the physical address on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100 accordingly.

In conjunction with the fourth figure (f), the user selects the POI operation of the map, so pressing the map button in the operation interface of the fourth figure (d), the application App launches the external geographic map program and selects the selected focus. The physical address of the point POI is transmitted to the external navigation program. In this embodiment, the physical address of the selected POI [Huahong Palace] is "No. 90, Lane 15, Lane 11, Lane, Yanpingli, Changhua City", geographic map The program is based on the Google Map geography website. After receiving the parameters provided by the application App, the Google Map will display the surrounding map of the physical address on the touch interface of the mobile computing device 100.

It should be noted that the aforementioned graphic program refers to a mobile computing device executable program that can provide static geographic information to the user. The GPS signal receiving unit of the mobile computing device in the mobile computing device is preferably unreceivable. The GPS signal is executed in the state of GPS-off state, that is, as long as the latitude and longitude P1 or P2 of the local location or the point of interest can be obtained, the graphics program can provide the user with static geographic information based on P1 or P2, for example: Display P1 to P2 path or path planning, but can not provide users with instant geographic information, such as: continuous, immediate guidance user to move from P1 to P2.

The navigation program refers to a mobile computing device executable program that can provide dynamic geographic information to the user. The navigation program needs the GPS signal receiving unit in the mobile computing device to preferably receive the GPS signal (GPS-on state). Under the execution, the navigation program can provide the user with dynamic geographic information based on P1 or P2, for example: continuous, instant guidance user to move from P1 to P2.

However, the "POI operation" referred to in this embodiment is not limited to the aforementioned startup map program or navigation program, and the application program application on the mobile computing device 100 via the focus operation method for the mobile computing device of the present invention is also You can launch more other external applications and pass parameters to them at the same time, for example, Geo-info based applications or other external applications.

Example:

(1) A content providing method for a mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is installed with an application and wirelessly connected to an Internet, the Internet includes an application webpage, and the method includes embedding the application in the application Applying a webpage to enable instant communication between the application and the webpage of the application; placing the webpage of the application under the control of the application; and using the content of the webpage of the application as an operation interface of the application.

(2) The method of embodiment 1, further comprising selecting a point of interest via the application webpage; providing a plurality of point of interest operations associated with the point of interest via the application; and selecting one of the point of interest operations.

(3) The method of embodiment 1, wherein the point-of-care operations comprise: a navigation operation, a peripheral map operation, an information acquisition operation, and a proximity information operation.

(4) The method of embodiment 2, further comprising radially extending outwardly from the reference point as a focus radius to further define a range of interest.

(5) The method of embodiment 2, wherein the point-of-care operations comprise: a navigation operation, a peripheral map operation, an information acquisition operation, and a proximity information operation.

(6) The method of embodiment 1, further comprising obtaining a first latitude and longitude coordinate of a reference point via the application; obtaining a second latitude and longitude coordinate of a point of interest via the application webpage; the application is opened and provided The first and second latitude and longitude coordinates are given to the navigation program; and the navigation program is caused to move from the first latitude and longitude coordinate to the navigation of the second latitude and longitude coordinate.

(7) The method of embodiment 6, wherein the reference point is a current location where the mobile computing device is currently located or an arbitrary location selected by the user.

The present invention is a rare and incomprehensible invention, and the above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. That is to say, the equivalent changes and modifications made by the applicant in accordance with the scope of the patent application of the present invention should still fall within the scope of the patent of the present invention. I would like to ask your review committee to give a clear explanation and pray for it.

100. . . Mobile computing device

110. . . GPS satellite

120. . . Internet

130. . . server

ISP. . . Local location

ROI. . . Focus on radius

FOI. . . Scope of concern

POI. . . focus point

P1, P2. . . Latitude and longitude coordinates

App. . . application

WebPage. . . Application page

C. . . Control column

3000. . . Install the application on the mobile computing device

3010. . . Install the application on the mobile computing device, then open the application on the mobile computing device

3020. . . The mobile computing device is connected to the Internet, and the application is connected to the application webpage set up on the server via the Internet.

3030. . . Embed an application webpage into an application and place the application webpage under the control of the application, enabling instant interaction between the application and the application webpage

3040. . . The application accesses the application webpage and causes the application webpage to be displayed on the touch interface of the mobile computing device as an operation interface of the application

3050. . . Determine if the signal receiving unit can receive the GPS signal

3060. . . When the signal receiving unit determines that the GPS signal can be normally received, the mobile computing device starts to receive the GPS signal and calculates the latitude and longitude coordinates of the location of the location as a reference point.

3070. . . If the GPS signal receiving unit cannot receive the GPS signal normally, the application allows the user to select any other location as the reference point.

3080. . . Focusing on the reference point, the application provides multiple pieces of nearby information that are sorted and sorted for users to select the focus.

3090. . . The user selects a point of interest and the app provides a focus option

3100. . . The user selects the desired focus operation option according to the needs.

3110. . . Taking the navigation focus operation as an example, the user selects the navigation focus operation.

3120. . . The application web page provides the application with the latitude and longitude coordinates of the selected focus point in response to the user's focus operation

3130. . . The application receives the latitude and longitude coordinates provided by the application webpage, and then opens another external navigation program.

3140. . . The application transmits the latitude and longitude coordinates of the local location and the latitude and longitude coordinates of the selected attention point as parameters to the external navigation program.

3150. . . The external navigation program receives the latitude and longitude coordinates, and accordingly plans the navigation path and displays it on the touch interface of the mobile computing device

3160. . . Taking the attention point operation of the surrounding map of the attention point as an example, the user selects the focus operation of the map.

3170. . . The application web page provides the application with the physical address of the selected point of interest in response to the user's focus operation

3180. . . The application receives the physical address provided by the application webpage, and then opens another external geographic map asset

3190. . . The application transmits the entity address of the selected point of interest as a parameter to the external geographer

3200. . . The external geographic map program receives the physical address, and accordingly displays the surrounding map of the physical address on the touch interface of the mobile computing device

The first figure is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;

The second figure is a schematic diagram of the interaction structure between the application and the application webpage of the present invention;

The third diagrams (a)-(c) are flowcharts of the navigation method for the mobile computing device of the present invention;

The fourth figure (a)-(f) is a schematic diagram of the operation interface of the application of the present invention.

100. . . Mobile computing device

110. . . GPS satellite

120. . . Internet

130. . . server

ISP. . . Local location

ROI. . . Focus on radius

FOI. . . Scope of concern

POI. . . focus point

P1, P2. . . Latitude and longitude coordinates

Claims (7)

A content providing method for a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device is installed with an application and wirelessly connected to an Internet, the Internet includes an application webpage, and the method includes: embedding the application webpage in the application Instantly communicating the application with the application webpage; placing the application webpage under the control of the application; and using the content of the application webpage as the operation interface of the application. The method of claim 1, further comprising: selecting a point of interest via the application webpage; providing a plurality of focus operations associated with the point of interest via the application; and selecting one of the focus operations . The method of claim 1, wherein the operations of the focus include: a navigation operation, a peripheral map operation, an information acquisition operation, and a proximity information operation. The method of claim 2, further comprising: radially extending the straight line distance from the reference point as a focus radius to further define a range of interest. The method of claim 2, wherein the focus operations include: a navigation operation, a peripheral map operation, an information acquisition operation, and a proximity information operation. The method of claim 1, further comprising: obtaining, by the application, a first latitude and longitude coordinate of a reference point; obtaining a second latitude and longitude coordinate of a point of interest via the application webpage; the application is opened and Providing the first and second latitude and longitude coordinates to the navigation program; and causing the navigation program to perform navigation from the first latitude and longitude coordinate to the second latitude and longitude coordinate. The method of claim 6, wherein the reference point is a current location where the mobile computing device is currently located or an arbitrary location selected by the user.