WO2016101749A1

WO2016101749A1 - Method and device for configuring communication groups

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Publication number: WO2016101749A1
Application number: PCT/CN2015/095456
Authority: WO
Inventors: 刘义平
Original assignee: 北京奇虎科技有限公司; 奇智软件（北京）有限公司
Priority date: 2014-12-27
Filing date: 2015-11-24
Publication date: 2016-06-30
Also published as: CN104580431A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and device for configuring communication groups. The method comprises: receiving a communication group configuration request sent by a terminal, the configuration request comprising geographical coordinate information and a user identifier; identifying location information corresponding to the geographical coordinate information; matching the location information with communication groups that are created in advance; and if a match is found, establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a user can automatically join a communication group without the need to search for the communication group according to a keyword. Because members of the communication group have the same rights and do not need to join the communication group by invitation or application, the communication between a terminal of a user who is invited or submits an application, a terminal of an administrator, and a server during the invitation or application process is avoided, thereby greatly simplifying the operation, reducing time consumption, and reducing the consumption of system resources and network bandwidth of the terminals and the server.

Description

Method and device for configuring communication group

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method for configuring a communication group and a device for configuring a communication group.

Background technique

With the development of communication technology, communication systems have been accepted by more and more people and are used more and more in people's work, study, and daily life. It can be said that communication systems have become a necessity in people's lives. a part of.

When multiple individuals gather together, they can be called groups. In social networks, these people come together for some common reason, such as hobbies, geography, work, etc., can create classes such as class groups, company groups, etc., to facilitate communication.

However, in a communication group, the creator of the group or the administrator authorized by the creator is often required to manage, and other users should actively search according to keywords, and an invitation or application is required to join the communication group, and In the process of invitation or application, the terminal of the user who needs to be invited or applied, the terminal of the manager and the server perform multiple communication, which is very troublesome, takes a long time, and consumes more system resources and network bandwidth of the terminal and the server.

Summary of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention has been made in order to provide a communication group configuration method and a corresponding communication group configuration apparatus that overcome the above problems or at least partially solve or alleviate the above problems.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for configuring a communication group is provided, including the steps of:

Receiving a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal, where the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier;

Identifying location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

Matching the location information with the previously created communication group;

When the matching is successful, establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a device for configuring a communication group is provided, including:

a configuration request receiving module, configured to receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal; The request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identification;

a location information identification module, configured to identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

a communication group matching module, configured to match the previously created communication group by using the location information;

The first association establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group when the matching is successful.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a computer program is provided, comprising computer readable code that, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to perform a communication group as described above Configuration method.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a computer readable medium is provided, wherein the computer program described above is stored.

The invention has the beneficial effects that the embodiment of the present invention identifies the location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information of the terminal according to the configuration request of the communication group sent by the terminal, uses the location information to match the previously created communication group, and establishes a user. The association between the identifier and the communication group is realized, and the communication group is automatically added, and the user does not need to search for the communication group according to the keyword. Since the member rights of the communication group are the same, there is no need to invite or apply to join the communication group. The communication frequency between the terminal of the invited or applied user, the terminal of the manager and the server during the invitation or application process is reduced, the operation simplicity is greatly improved, the time consumption is reduced, and the system resources of the terminal and the server are reduced. And network bandwidth.

The embodiment of the present invention obtains the feature region information of the feature region to which the geographic coordinate information belongs, and can ensure the integrity of the region. Since the location information is used as the group name, the group name uniquely identifies the communication group, and the communication group is in the same feature. The integrity of the area avoids the division of communication groups.

In addition, since the range of the feature area is generally large, the location accuracy of the feature area is high, which makes up for the problem that the positioning accuracy is lower in some cases, and reduces the participation of the communication group due to the error of the location information positioning. The impact of group errors increases fault tolerance.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the information of the communication group sorted according to the communication frequency is returned to the terminal for display, and the communication group with more communication frequencies can be preferentially displayed in front, thereby avoiding operations such as page turning by the user, and further improving the operation. Simplicity, reducing the resources consumed by the terminal in response to this operation.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the information of the communication group sorted according to the communication frequency is returned to the terminal. It can be shown that communication groups with more frequent communication frequencies can be prioritized in the front display, which avoids the user to perform page turning and the like, further improves the simplicity of operation, and reduces the resources consumed by the terminal in response to the operation.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the feature location information is used as the group name, and the geographic attribute of the communication group can be prompted in the easiest way, and the information of the communication group is not required to be viewed, thereby further improving the simplicity of the operation.

In addition, since the feature location information can be unique, the communication group is also unique, avoiding the creation of the same group, wasting resources, and making the communication between the users more centralized, easy, and convenient, further improving the operation. Simplicity.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and the above-described and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood. Specific embodiments of the invention are set forth below.

DRAWINGS

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those skilled in the art from a The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting. Throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to refer to the same parts. In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart showing the steps of Embodiment 1 of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart showing the steps of Embodiment 2 of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart showing the steps of Embodiment 3 of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart showing the steps of Embodiment 4 of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

Figure 6 shows schematically a block diagram of a computing device for performing the method according to the invention;

Fig. 7 schematically shows a storage unit for holding or carrying program code implementing the method according to the invention.

Specific embodiment

The invention is further described below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments. .

1 is a schematic flowchart of the steps of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention, which may include the following steps:

Step 101: Receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal.

It should be noted that the embodiment of the present invention may be applied to a server (such as a cloud server), and the server may be connected to one or more terminals through a network, and the terminal may specifically include a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). The embodiment of the present invention does not limit this, the laptop computer, the palmtop computer, and the like.

These terminals can support operating systems including Windows, Android (Android), IOS, Windows Phone, etc., and can usually run clients such as voice, keyboard (including physical keyboard, virtual keyboard) and other functions.

One or more users logged in at the client of one or more terminals may trigger the creation of a communication group to allow the one or more users to communicate within the scope of the communication group.

The configuration request of the communication group may be an indication of the configuration communication group sent by the user, and may be added to the communication group or created a communication group. For example, the user can request to configure the communication group by opening the client main interface, or request to configure the communication group and the like through the control specified in the client.

The configuration request may include geographic coordinate information and a user identifier.

The geographic coordinate information may be a coordinate indicating the position of the ground point, and may include the longitude and the latitude, but may be expressed in other manners, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

The user identifier may be information representing a uniquely determined user, for example, a user ID (an abbreviation of IDentity, an identification number), a user account, other information (such as a phone number, a mailbox) bound to the user ID or the user account, and the like. .

In practical applications, the terminal can obtain geographic coordinate information through various positioning methods, for example:

Satellite positioning mode, wireless fidelity positioning mode, base station positioning mode, cell identification code positioning mode, advanced forward link triangulation mode.

The satellite positioning method can send the position signal of the terminal to the positioning background for positioning. Currently available satellite positioning systems include GPS, GLONASS, Beidou systems, Galileo systems, and the like.

Wireless Fidelity (WIFI) positioning mode can be used to define the location of network devices based on the signal strength and global unique MAC address (Media Access Control Address, or hardware address) issued by WIFI hotspots deployed in various places. ) to locate.

The base station can be located by using operators (such as mobile operators, China Unicom operators, and telecom operators). The base station determines the location of the terminal by measuring the distance of the distance from the terminal.

The cell ID (Cell ID) positioning mode can report the cell number of the terminal (which can be estimated according to the base station of the service) through a wireless network (such as a cellular network), and the location service platform translates the cell number into latitude and longitude coordinates.

Advanced Forward Link Trilateration (AFLT) When performing positioning operations, the terminal simultaneously monitors pilot information of multiple base stations (at least 3 base stations), uses chip delay to determine the distance of the terminal to nearby base stations, and finally uses triangles. The positioning method calculates the position of the terminal.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the satellite positioning mode, the base station positioning mode, the wireless fidelity positioning mode, and the like may be combined with other positioning modes, such as a cell identification code positioning mode and an advanced forward link triangular positioning mode. Positioning to improve the accuracy of positioning.

For example, the mobile phone can be positioned by using a hybrid positioning method combining a satellite positioning method, a base station positioning method, and a wireless fidelity positioning method.

Step 102: Identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

Since the terminal such as a mobile phone is generally a private item, it is usually carried and used by the user to which it belongs, and by identifying the location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information, the place where the current user is located can be identified.

In a specific implementation, the location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information may be identified by inverse geocoding.

Reverse geocoding is relative to geocoding.

The geocoding service, that is, address matching, can convert the corresponding latitude and longitude coordinates from the known address description, that is, query the geographic coordinates corresponding to the address according to the location information.

The reverse geocoding can be an address resolution service, specifically a conversion service from known geographic coordinate information (such as latitude and longitude coordinates) to corresponding location information (such as provinces, cities, neighborhoods, floors, rooms, etc.).

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the location information may include feature area information. In the embodiment of the present invention, step 102 may include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S11, acquiring feature area information of the feature area to which the geographic coordinate information belongs.

In the embodiment of the present invention, some famous regions, hot regions, and the like may be set as feature regions in advance, and feature region information (such as a name) may be configured, for example, Peking University, China University of Geosciences, and the like.

If the geographic coordinate information is in the feature area, the feature area information of the area is obtained.

For example, the user can return to the China University of Geosciences at any location in the China University of Geosciences, rather than a single location where the geographic coordinates information is located.

In a specific implementation, if there is a first geographic server that provides the feature region identification service, the interface provided by the first geographic server may be invoked, and the geographic coordinate information is assembled into a call request according to the parameter specification of the interface, and sent to the interface. And acquiring the feature area information returned by the first geographic server by calling the feature area identification service of the first geographic server.

For example, the China University of Geosciences may be pre-set as a feature area. If the latitude and longitude of the user is 116.346586 or 39.990677, the following call request may be generated:

Http://restapi.map.**.com/api/simple.php? Sid=7001&number=0&addr_desc=true&show_addr=true&x=116.346586&y=39.990677

Where "**" is the domain name of the first geographic server.

The call request is sent to the interface provided by the first geographic server for querying, and the first geographic server may return to the "China University of Geosciences" when it recognizes that the latitude and longitude is located in the China University of Geosciences.

The embodiment of the invention can reduce the cost by calling the first geographic server and multiplexing the existing feature area identification service.

Of course, the embodiment of the present invention can also locally deploy the component that provides the feature region identification service to speed up the identification of the feature region.

In another optional embodiment of the present invention, the location information may include location information. In the embodiment of the present invention, step 102 may include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S21, acquiring location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, in a case where the feature area to which the location information belongs cannot be identified, the single location where the geographic coordinate information is located, that is, the location information can be identified.

For example, the location information may be "Hongyuan Building, No. 2 Building, No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing."

In a specific implementation, if there is a second geographic server that provides the location information identification service, the interface provided by the second geographic server may be invoked, and the geographic coordinate information is assembled into a call request according to the parameter specification of the interface, and sent to the interface. To call the location of the second geographic server The information recognition service obtains the location information returned by the second geographic server.

For example, a second geoserver can return the following location information:

Province name (if it is a municipality, the province name is null), city name, city code, district (county) name, area code, street and house information, detailed address, description information.

The embodiment of the present invention can reduce the cost by calling the second geographic server and multiplexing the existing location information to identify the service identification location information.

Of course, the embodiment of the present invention may also locally deploy the component that provides the location information identification service to speed up the identification of the location information, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

Step 103: Match the location information with the previously created communication group;

In a specific implementation, when the location information of the user is identified, a suitable communication group can be found to provide a communication service.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the communication group may have a group name. In the embodiment of the present invention, step 103 may include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S31, determining whether the location information includes the group name of the communication group created first; if yes, performing sub-step S32;

Sub-step S32, determining that the location information is successfully matched with the previously created communication group.

In the embodiment of the present invention, each communication group may have a unique group name to identify the communication group, and the group name may be named according to the location information.

In general (such as location information is location information), the location information may include the group name. In special cases (such as location information is feature region information), the location information may be the same as the group name (ie, special inclusion).

For example, if the group name of a previously created communication group is “Hongyuan Building”, the location information “Hongyuan Building, No. 2 Building, No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing” contains “Hongyuan Building”. ", matches the communication group.

Step 104: When the matching is successful, establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the user rights in the communication group are the same, and all members of the communication group have the default permissions of the members of the communication group, and the creator is not set in the communication group (ie, the group owner) ") and privileged users such as administrators are equal-sized communication groups that facilitate equal communication between users.

In a specific implementation, the communication group may have a unique group ID, and the association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group may be established by establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the group ID. The user is now joining the communication group.

After establishing the association relationship, the server can return related information of the communication group to the terminal. The related information may include a user of the communication group, a user interface (such as a session window) display, a system interface configuration, and the like.

When the terminal receives the information, it can perform corresponding processing to allow the current user to communicate with other users of the communication group.

For example, create a session window for the communication group, load information for other users in the communication group in the session window, and so on.

The embodiment of the present invention identifies the location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information of the terminal according to the configuration request of the communication group sent by the terminal, uses the location information to match the previously created communication group, and establishes the association between the user identifier and the communication group. The relationship realizes the automatic joining of the communication group, and the user does not need to find the communication group according to the keyword. Since the communication group has the same member rights, there is no need to invite or apply to join the communication group, thereby reducing the invitation or application process. The frequency of communication between the terminal of the user who is invited or applied, the terminal of the manager, and the server greatly improves the simplicity of operation, reduces time consumption, and reduces system resources and network bandwidth of the terminal and the server.

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of the steps of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention, which may include the following steps:

Step 201: Receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal, where the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier.

Step 202: Identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.

Step 203: Perform matching with the previously created communication group by using the location information.

Step 204: When the matching is successful, establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group.

Step 205: Acquire one or more candidate location information in the candidate range.

In practical applications, the accuracy of location information recognition is affected by various conditions, such as the hardware and software of the terminal, network conditions, and so on.

In some usage scenarios, users may easily encounter GPS satellite connection abnormalities, which need to be solved by network positioning, and network positioning is subject to more environmental factors - communication base station switching, signal blocking, Wi-Fi Factors such as no opening, unstable system resources, etc., may cause errors in the location information.

Positioning at the junction of different locations, even if the positioning error is a few meters, may cause position information positioning error.

For example, the user is located in Building A, but near the junction of Building A and Building B, it is possible to locate Building B.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, a candidate range may be obtained, and one or more candidate location information is searched from the candidate range to expand a candidate range of the communication group.

The candidate location information in the vicinity of the current user's location information is identified from the candidate range, and the candidate location information may further be one or more location information that is closest to the current user's location information.

In an embodiment of the invention, the candidate range may be determined by the geographic coordinate information.

For example, the geographic coordinate information may be used as a center, and a distance (for example, 2 kilometers, 3 kilometers, and the like) may be specified as a radius to determine a candidate range of the circle.

Of course, the foregoing candidate range is only an example. When implementing the embodiment of the present invention, other candidate ranges may be set according to actual conditions. For example, a candidate range of a shape such as a rectangle, a triangle, a prism, or the like may be determined centering on the geographic coordinate information. The candidate range may be determined in the front, the rear, the left side, the right side, and the like of the geographic coordinate information, and the like, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

In a specific implementation, if there is a second geographic server that provides the location information identification service, the interface provided by the second geographic server may be invoked, and the geographic coordinate information is assembled into a call request according to the parameter specification of the interface, and sent to the interface. And identifying the service by calling the geographic coordinate information of the second geographic server, and obtaining location information and candidate location information returned by the second geographic server.

The embodiment of the present invention can reduce the cost by calling the second geographic server and multiplexing the existing location information identification service to identify the candidate location information.

Of course, the embodiment of the present invention can also locally deploy the component that provides the location information identification service to speed up the identification of the candidate location information, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

Step 206: Query a candidate communication group that matches the one or more candidate location information.

In a specific implementation, when the location information of the user is identified, a matching candidate communication group may be sought to provide a user selection.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the communication group may have a group name. In the embodiment of the present invention, step 206 may include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S41, determining whether the candidate location information includes the group name of the communication group created first; if yes, executing sub-step S42, if not, executing sub-step S43;

Sub-step S42, determining that the candidate location information is successfully matched with the previously created communication group;

Sub-step S43, determining that the candidate location information matches the previously created communication group. defeat.

In a general case (eg, the candidate location information is location information), the candidate location information may include a group name. In a special case (eg, the candidate location information is feature region information), the candidate location information may be the same as the group name (ie, special) Inclusion).

When the candidate location information includes the group name, it may indicate that the matching with the previously created communication group is successful, and may be used as a candidate communication group; otherwise, the matching may fail.

Step 207: Return information of the candidate communication group to the terminal.

Step 208: When receiving a join request submitted by the terminal for the candidate communication group, establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the candidate communication group.

In a specific implementation, the communication group that matches the current user's location information may be a default communication group, and the communication group that matches the candidate location information in the vicinity of the current user's location information may be a candidate communication group.

When the user sends a join request by clicking or the like to request to join the candidate communication group, the association relationship between the user identifier and the candidate communication group may be established to allow the user to join the candidate communication group.

Specifically, the communication group may have a unique group ID, and the association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group may be established by establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the group ID.

The embodiment of the present invention queries a communication group that matches one or more candidate location information in the candidate range, and returns the terminal for display. By appropriately expanding the candidate range of the communication group, the positioning may be in the case of an error, or The correct communication group is returned to the terminal, so that the user can select, which makes up for the problem that the positioning accuracy is lower in some cases, reduces the influence of the error of joining the communication group due to the error of the location information positioning, and improves the fault tolerance. Sex.

Referring to FIG. 3, a schematic flowchart of the steps of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in the following steps.

Step 301: Receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal, where the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier.

Step 302: Identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.

Step 303, using the location information to match the previously created communication group;

Step 304: When the matching is successful, establishing association between the user identifier and the communication group system.

Step 305: When the matching is successful, increase the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the user has visited more places, there may be a plurality of communication groups stored in the terminal.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the communication frequency can be configured for each communication group associated with the user identifier. When the user identifier matches the communication group each time, the communication frequency can be increased by one.

Step 306: Query the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier.

Step 307: Sort the communication groups associated with the user identifier according to the communication frequency;

Step 308: Return the sorted information of the communication group associated with the user identifier to the terminal.

In a specific implementation, if the communication group has a high frequency of communication, it may indicate that the user goes to the corresponding place of the communication group, and the activity is relatively frequent in the place, and the demand for the communication group is large.

If the communication group has less communication frequency, it can indicate that the user goes to the corresponding place of the communication group, and occasionally activities in the place, the demand for the communication group is less.

Referring to FIG. 4, a schematic flowchart of a step of a method for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in the following steps.

Step 401: Receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal, where the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier.

Step 402: Identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.

Step 403, using the location information to match the previously created communication group;

Sub-step S51, determining whether the location information includes the group name of the previously created communication group; if not, executing sub-step S52;

Sub-step S52, determining that the location information fails to match the previously created communication group.

For example, if the group name of the communication group created earlier is “Peking University” or “China University of Geosciences”, the location information “Hongyuan Building, No. 2 Building, No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing” does not include Peking University and China University of Geosciences failed to match the communication group created earlier.

Step 404: When the matching fails, extract feature location information from the location information.

If the match fails, it indicates that the communication group where the user is located is not currently created. You need to create the communication group that belongs to the user.

The feature location information may be information that reflects the characteristics of a place.

For example, for the location information "Hongyuan Building, No. 2 Building, No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing", the characteristic location information can be "Hongyuan Building" or "No. 2 Building of No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road" A person skilled in the art can make settings according to the actual situation, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

In an optional embodiment of the invention, step 404 can include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S61, when the location information is feature region information, the feature region information is set as feature location information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the user is located in a preset feature area, the feature area information itself of the feature area may be used as the feature location information.

In another optional embodiment of the present invention, step 404 can include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S62, when the location information is location information, the specified parameter is extracted from the location information as feature location information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, if the location information is location information, the parameter specified in the location information may be extracted as feature location information.

For example, the location information obtained is as follows:

In this example, the parameter of the description information can be used as the feature location information.

Step 405: Create a new communication group by using the feature location information.

In a specific implementation, a new communication group may be established based on the feature location information, and the communication group may have a geographic attribute.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, step 405 may include the following sub-steps:

Sub-step S71, the new communication group is established by using the feature location information as a group name.

Step 406: Establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the new communication group.

In a specific implementation, the communication group may have a unique group ID. After establishing the communication group, the association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group may be established by establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the group ID. The user joins the communication group.

It should be noted that, although the current user is a user who triggers the creation of a communication group, the rights of the privileged user such as the creator and the administrator may not be configured for the user in the embodiment of the present invention, and the rights of the user and the user who subsequently joins Permissions are equal, can be the default permissions of members of the communication group, have general sending information (including text, images, language, etc.), upload files, view group member data, send friend requests to group members, exit group Groups and other permissions, do not have administrative rights.

Since the geographical location has been divided in detail in real life, people's activities are mostly carried out in units of the geographical location, and people in the unit have communication needs.

For example, students attend classes at school, and students have a need to discuss learning; merchants conduct commodity transactions in commercial centers, and merchants have a need to discuss market conditions; white-collar workers work in office buildings, and white-collar workers have discussions about work needs.

Traditional communication groups generally focus on privileged users such as creators and administrators, and manage the entire communication group. The status of communication group members is unequal, which is easy to cause communication gaps between people.

For example, privileged users such as creators and administrators can arbitrarily deny other users to join the communication group. Privilege users such as creators and administrators can also delete the members of the communication group (that is, kick out the group) or even dismiss the communication. Groups, blocking members between communication groups, and members and others User communication.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the communication group is created by using the feature geographic information as the group name, and the range of the communication group is highly consistent with the actual geographical location. For example, the group name is “Peking University” communication group, and its scope and reality are Beijing. The university's area is basically the same, which can greatly satisfy the communication needs of users in the same geographical location.

The subsequent users are added to the communication group through the matching of the location information, which reduces the communication cost of the users in the same geographical location.

There are no privileged users such as creators and administrators, which breaks the communication gap between people and allows people around them to communicate directly.

For the method embodiments, for the sake of simple description, they are all expressed as a series of action combinations, but those skilled in the art should understand that the embodiments of the present invention are not limited by the described action sequence, because the embodiment according to the present invention Some steps can be performed in other orders or at the same time. In the following, those skilled in the art should also understand that the embodiments described in the specification are all preferred embodiments, and the actions involved are not necessarily required by the embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for configuring a communication group according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown. Specifically, the following modules may be included:

The configuration request receiving module 501 is adapted to receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal; the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier;

The location information identification module 502 is adapted to identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

The communication group matching module 503 is adapted to use the location information to match the previously created communication group;

The first association establishing module 504 is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group when the matching is successful.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the location information may include feature area information; the location information identification module 502 may also be adapted to:

Obtaining feature region information of the feature region to which the geographic coordinate information belongs.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the location information may include location information; the location information identification module 502 may also be adapted to:

Obtaining location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the communication group may have a group name; The communication group matching module 503 can also be adapted to:

Determining whether the location information includes a group name of a communication group created first;

If yes, determining that the location information is successfully matched with the previously created communication group;

If not, it is determined that the location information fails to match the previously created communication group.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the following modules may also be included:

a candidate location information acquiring module, configured to acquire one or more candidate location information in a candidate range; the candidate range is determined by the geographic coordinate information;

a communication group query module, configured to query a candidate communication group that matches the one or more candidate location information;

The first information returning module is adapted to return information of the candidate communication group to the terminal.

The second association relationship establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the candidate communication group when receiving a join request submitted by the terminal for the candidate communication group.

The communication frequency increasing module is adapted to increase the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier when the matching is successful.

The communication frequency query module is configured to query the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier;

a sorting module, configured to sort the communication groups associated with the user identifier according to the communication frequency;

The second information returning module is adapted to return the sorted information of the communication group associated with the user identifier to the terminal.

a feature location information extraction module, configured to extract feature location information from the location information when the matching fails;

The communication group establishing module is adapted to establish a new communication group by using the feature location information.

The third association establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the new communication group.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the feature location information extraction module may also be adapted to:

When the location information is feature region information, the feature region information is set as feature location information.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the feature location information extraction module may further be adapted to:

When the location information is location information, the specified parameter is extracted from the location information as feature location information.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the communication group establishing module may further be adapted to:

A new communication group is established by using the feature location information as a group name.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant parts can be referred to the description of the method embodiment.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in a software module running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that a microprocessor or digital signal processor (DSP) may be used in practice to implement some or all of the functionality of some or all of the components of the communication group in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. The invention can also be implemented as a device or device program (e.g., a computer program and a computer program product) for performing some or all of the methods described herein. Such a program implementing the invention may be stored on a computer readable medium or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such signals may be downloaded from an Internet website, provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

For example, Figure 6 illustrates a configuration method computing device, such as an application server, that can implement a communication group in accordance with the present invention. The computing device conventionally includes a processor 610 and a computer program product or computer readable medium in the form of a memory 620. The memory 620 may be an electronic memory such as a flash memory, an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), an EPROM, a hard disk, or a ROM. Memory 620 has a storage space 630 that stores program code 631 for performing any of the method steps described above. For example, storage space 630 storing program code may include respective program code 631 for implementing various steps in the above methods, respectively. The program code can be read from or written to one or more computer program products. These computer program products include program code carriers such as hard disks, compact disks (CDs), memory cards or floppy disks. Such a computer program product is typically a portable or fixed storage unit such as that shown in FIG. The storage unit may have storage segments, storage spaces, and the like that are similarly arranged to memory 620 in the computing device of FIG. Program code can be, for example, in the appropriate form Compress. Typically, the storage unit includes computer readable code 631' for performing the method steps of the present invention, ie, code that can be read by a processor, such as 610, which when executed by the computing device causes the computing device Perform the various steps in the method described above.

"an embodiment," or "an embodiment," or "an embodiment," In addition, it is noted that the phrase "in one embodiment" is not necessarily referring to the same embodiment.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that the embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures, and techniques are not shown in detail so as not to obscure the understanding of the description.

It is to be noted that the above-described embodiments are illustrative of the invention and are not intended to be limiting, and that the invention may be devised without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as a limitation. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of the elements or steps that are not recited in the claims. The word "a" or "an" The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In the unit claims enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by the same hardware item. The use of the words first, second, and third does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

In addition, it should be noted that the language used in the specification has been selected for the purpose of readability and teaching, and is not intended to be construed or limited. Therefore, many modifications and changes will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. The disclosure of the present invention is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive, and the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

A method for configuring a communication group includes the steps of:

Receiving a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal, where the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier;

Identifying location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

Matching the location information with the previously created communication group;

When the matching is successful, establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group.
The method of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises feature area information; and the step of identifying the location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information comprises:

Obtaining feature region information of the feature region to which the geographic coordinate information belongs.
The method of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises location information; the step of identifying location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information comprises:

Obtaining location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.
The method of claim 1, wherein the communication group has a group name; and the step of matching the location information with the previously created communication group comprises:

Determining whether the location information includes a group name of a communication group created first;

If yes, determining that the location information is successfully matched with the previously created communication group;

If not, it is determined that the location information fails to match the previously created communication group.
The method of claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, further comprising the steps of:

Obtaining one or more candidate location information in the candidate range; the candidate range is determined by the geographic coordinate information;

Querying a candidate communication group that matches the one or more candidate location information;

Returning information of the candidate communication group to the terminal.
The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of:

Establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the candidate communication group when receiving a join request submitted by the terminal for the candidate communication group.
The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

When the matching is successful, the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier is increased.
The method of claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, further comprising the steps of:

Querying the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier;

Sorting the communication groups associated with the user identifier according to the communication frequency;

Returning the sorted information of the communication group associated with the user identifier to the terminal.
The method of claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, further comprising the steps of:

When the matching fails, extracting feature location information from the location information;

The feature location information is used to establish a new communication group.
The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of:

Establishing an association relationship between the user identifier and the new communication group.
The method of claim 9, wherein the step of extracting feature location information from the location information comprises:

When the location information is feature region information, the feature region information is set as feature location information.
The method of claim 9, wherein the step of extracting feature location information from the location information comprises:

When the location information is location information, the specified parameter is extracted from the location information as feature location information.
The method of claim 9 wherein said step of establishing a new communication group using said feature geographic information comprises:

A new communication group is established by using the feature location information as a group name.
A configuration device for a communication group, comprising:

a configuration request receiving module, configured to receive a configuration request of a communication group sent by the terminal; the configuration request includes geographic coordinate information and a user identifier;

a location information identification module, configured to identify location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information;

a communication group matching module, configured to match the previously created communication group by using the location information;

The first association establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the communication group when the matching is successful.
The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the location information comprises feature area information; the location information identification module is further adapted to:

Obtaining feature region information of the feature region to which the geographic coordinate information belongs.
The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the location information comprises location information; the location information identification module is further adapted to:

Obtaining location information corresponding to the geographic coordinate information.
The device of claim 14, wherein the communication group has a group name; the communication group matching module is further adapted to:

Determining whether the location information includes a group name of a communication group created first;

If yes, determining that the location information is successfully matched with the previously created communication group;

If not, it is determined that the location information fails to match the previously created communication group.
The apparatus of claim 14 or 15 or 16 or 17, further comprising:

a candidate location information acquiring module, configured to acquire one or more candidate location information in a candidate range; the candidate range is determined by the geographic coordinate information;

a communication group query module, configured to query a candidate communication group that matches the one or more candidate location information;

The first information returning module is adapted to return information of the candidate communication group to the terminal.
The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising:

The second association relationship establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the candidate communication group when receiving a join request submitted by the terminal for the candidate communication group.
The apparatus of claim 14 further comprising:

The communication frequency increasing module is adapted to increase the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier when the matching is successful.
The apparatus of claim 14 or 15 or 16 or 17, further comprising:

The communication frequency query module is configured to query the communication frequency of the communication group associated with the user identifier;

a sorting module, configured to sort the communication groups associated with the user identifier according to the communication frequency;

The second information returning module is adapted to return the sorted information of the communication group associated with the user identifier to the terminal.
The apparatus of claim 14 or 15 or 16 or 17, further comprising:

a feature location information extraction module, configured to extract feature location information from the location information when the matching fails;

The communication group establishing module is adapted to establish a new communication group by using the feature location information.
The apparatus of claim 22, further comprising:

The third association establishing module is configured to establish an association relationship between the user identifier and the new communication group.
The device of claim 22, wherein the feature location information extraction module is further adapted to:

When the location information is feature region information, the feature region information is set as feature location information.
The device of claim 22, wherein the feature location information extraction module is further adapted to:

When the location information is location information, the specified parameter is extracted from the location information as feature location information.
The device of claim 22, wherein the communication group establishing module is further adapted to:

A new communication group is established by using the feature location information as a group name.
A computer program comprising computer readable code, when the computer readable code is run on a computing device, causing the computing device to perform a configuration method of a communication group according to any one of claims 1-13 .
A computer readable medium storing the computer program of claim 27.