Address information input method, acquisition method, apparatus, device, and system

• US 10,162,810 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2014
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Ye, Wa, Xu, Zhenyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Zuberi, Mohammed H
• Application Number:
  US14/491,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20150089346A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/243 Natural language query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes

Abstract

Methods and devices are provided for inputting address information in the field of network technologies. The method includes: sending an address acquisition request to a server when an address needs to be input in a target page; receiving address information sent by the server, where the server receives the address acquisition request, acquires a geographical position of a terminal according to the address acquisition request, and determines the address information corresponding to the geographical position according to an address database; and inputting automatically the address information in an address input area of the target page.

Claims

1. A method for inputting address information, comprising:

receiving, on a terminal having a processor, a request to display a target page associated with a target page identifier;

determining, in response to receipt of the request to display the target page, that the target page includes an address input area by determining the target page identifier is included in a plurality of previously stored target page identifiers for respective target pages that include corresponding address input areas;

automatically sending an address acquisition request to a server in response to identification of the target page identifier in the plurality of previously stored target page identifiers;

receiving address information sent by the server, the address information including an address corresponding to a geographical position of the terminal; and

inputting automatically the address information in an address input area of the target page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein before sending the address acquisition request to the server, the method comprises:

acquiring the geographical position of the terminal in a preset positioning manner; and

wherein sending the address acquisition request to the server comprises;

sending the address acquisition request comprising the geographical position to the server to cause the server to read the geographical position in the address acquisition request and respond with the address information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the address acquisition request to the server comprises:

sending a trigger request to acquire the address information from the server, wherein the trigger request comprises an instruction to trigger the server to position the terminal and acquire the geographical position of the terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein after inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page, the method further comprises:

receiving a modification operation for modifying the address information; and

modifying the address information according to the modification operation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the address information comprises a plurality of addresses corresponding to the geographical position of the terminal, wherein before inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page, the method comprises:

receiving a selection signal corresponding to one of the addresses; and

selecting the one of the addresses in response to the selection signal, wherein inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page comprises;

inputting automatically the one of the addresses in the address input area of the target page.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a query request to the server, wherein the query request comprises an instruction to query a personal database corresponding to a user account used by the terminal for target address information historically used by the user account, and an instruction to provide the target address information to the terminal; and

receiving the target address information from the server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the target page comprises a first target page, the method further comprising:

setting, in response to receipt of the address information from the server, the address information as default address information associated with a user account corresponding to the terminal; and

inputting the default address information into an address input area of a second target page in response to a subsequent jump to the second target page.

8. A method for acquiring address information, comprising:

receiving an address acquisition request sent by a terminal, wherein the address acquisition request comprises a request to input an address in a target page;

acquiring a geographical position of the terminal according to the address acquisition request;

determining address information corresponding to the geographical position according to an address database; and

sending the determined address information to the terminal, wherein the address information is automatically input in an address input area of the target page by the terminal, wherein determining address information corresponding to the geographical position according to the address database comprises;

selecting at least one piece of address information from the address database, wherein a distance between a position corresponding to each piece of address information in the at least one piece of address information and the geographical position is smaller than a preset threshold value;

calculating a score of each selected piece of address information according to a predetermined score item, wherein the predetermined score item comprises at least one of the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position, the number of times that the address information is historically used, the type of the address information, and an information perfection degree of the address information, and the type of the address information is a school, company, hospital, residence, park or mall; and

using address information of n highest scores as the address information corresponding to the geographical position, wherein n is a positive integer,

wherein calculating a score of each selected piece of address information according to the predetermined score item comprises;

if the predetermined score item comprises the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position, calculating, according to the latitude and longitude of each piece of address information, the distance between the position corresponding to each piece of address information and the geographical position, querying for a first score corresponding to the calculated distance according to a first association relationship, wherein the first association relationship is a negative correlation relationship between the first score and the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position;

if the predetermined score item comprises the number of times that the address information is historically used, calculating the number of times that each piece of address information is historically used, and querying for a second score corresponding to the calculated number of times of historical use according to a second association relationship, wherein the second association relationship is a positive correlation relationship between the number of times that the address information is historically used and the second score;

if the predetermined score item comprises the type of the address information, querying for a third score corresponding to the type of each piece of address information according to a third association relationship, wherein the third association relationship is a relationship between the type of the address information and the third score;

if the predetermined score item comprises an information perfection degree of the address information, calculating an information perfection degree of each piece of address information, querying for a fourth score corresponding to the calculated information perfection degree according to a fourth association relationship, wherein the fourth association relationship is a positive correlation relationship between the information perfection degree of the address information and the fourth score; and

calculating the score of each piece of address information according to the score of each predetermined score item and a weight corresponding to each predetermined score item.

9. An apparatus comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor, the non-transitory storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions executable by the processor, the instructions comprising:

instructions executable by the processor to receive a request to display a target page provided by a first server, the target page associated with a target page identifier;

instructions executable by the processor to identify the target page identifier included in a plurality of previously stored target page identifiers for respective target pages that include corresponding address input areas;

instructions executable by the processor to determine, in response to receipt of the request to display the target page and identification of the target page identifier included in the previously stored target page identifiers, that the target page includes an address input area;

instructions executable by the processor to send, in response to the target page identifier being included in the plurality of previously stored target page identifiers, an address acquisition request to a second server before the target page is displayed;

instructions executable by the processor to receive address information from the second server, the address information including an address corresponding to a geographical position of the apparatus;

instructions executable by the processor to display the target page; and

instructions executable by the processor to automatically input the address information in an address input area of the target page in response to receipt of the address information.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the non-transitory storage medium further comprises:

instructions executable by the processor to acquire the geographical position of the apparatus according to a preset positioning manner; and

instructions executable by the processor to include the geographical position of the apparatus in the address acquisition request.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to send the address acquisition request further comprise instructions executable by the processor to send a trigger request that causes the second server to

acquire the geographical position of the apparatus from a source other than the apparatus, and

communicate the geographical position of the apparatus to the apparatus.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, the non-transitory storage medium further comprising:

instructions executable by the processor to receive a modification operation for modifying the address information; and

instructions executable by the processor to modify the address information according to the modification operation.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the address information comprises a plurality of pieces of address information, wherein the non-transitory storage medium further comprises:

instructions executable by the processor to receive a selection signal directed at a piece of address information displayed by the apparatus;

instructions executable by the processor to select the piece of address information in response to receipt of the selection signal; and

instructions executable by the processor to automatically input the piece of address information in the address input area of the target page.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the non-transitory storage medium further comprises:

instructions executable by the processor to send a query request to the second server, wherein the query request comprises an instruction to query a personal database corresponding to a user account associated with the apparatus to identify target address information historically used by the user account, and provide the target address information to the apparatus; and

instructions executable by the processor to receive the target address information provided by the second server.