Information filtering method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium

• US 10,412,031 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2017
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Inventors: Wang, Yongshan, Huo, Donghai, Liu, Xiaotong
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye, Zi
• Application Number:
  US15/491,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20170310621A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

An information filtering method for use in a terminal, includes: calculating, based on application information received by the terminal, an information display characteristic of the application information, the information display characteristic representing a display feature of the application information; determining the application information as interfering information, if the information display characteristic meets an interference characteristic condition; and filtering out the application information.

Claims

1. An information filtering method for use in a terminal, comprising:

calculating, based on application information received by the terminal, an information display characteristic of the application information, the information display characteristic representing a display feature of the application information;

determining the application information as interfering information, if the information display characteristic meets an interference characteristic condition; and

filtering out the application information,

wherein when the information display characteristic is display coordinates of the application information, the determining the application information as interfering information if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition comprises;

determining the application information as interfering information if the display coordinates fall within a preset interference coordinate range, and

the method further comprises;

acquiring historically recorded data on coordinate ranges in which target information is acquired; and

obtaining the preset interference coordinate range through statistical processing based on the data on the coordinate ranges, the data on the coordinate ranges comprising an average coordinate value of a preset number of positions clicked by a user in a process of continuously clicking a screen of the terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the information display characteristic is a digest of the application information, the determining the application information as interfering information if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition comprises:

comparing the digest of the application information with stored digests; and

determining the application information as interfering information if a digest identical to the digest of the application information exists in the stored digests.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

storing an information file corresponding to a preset time period, the information file storing a digest of each piece of application information received in the preset time period; and

determining if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition, by determining if the digest identical to the digest of the application information is stored in the information file.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the filtering out the application information comprises:

displaying a mark at a display position of the application information, the mark indicating that the application information is received; and

displaying the application information at the display position, if a display instruction from a user with respect to the mark is received.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the application information in an instant communication application.

6. A terminal, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to;

calculate, based on application information received by the terminal, an information display characteristic of the application information, the information display characteristic representing a display feature of the application information;

determine the application information as interfering information, if the information display characteristic meets an interference characteristic condition; and

filter out the application information,

wherein when the information display characteristic is display coordinates of the application information, the determining the application information as interfering information if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition comprises;

determine the application information as interfering information if the display coordinates fall within a preset interference coordinate range, and

the processor is further configured to;

acquire historically recorded data on coordinate ranges in which target information is acquired; and

obtain the preset interference coordinate range through statistical processing based on the data on the coordinate ranges, the data on the coordinate ranges comprising an average coordinate value of a preset number of positions clicked by a user in a process of continuously clicking a screen of the terminal.

7. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein when the information display characteristic is a digest of the application information, the processor is further configured to:

compare the digest of the application information with stored digests; and

determine the application information as interfering information if a digest identical to the digest of the application information exists in the stored digests.

8. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to:

store an information file corresponding to a preset time period, the information file storing a digest of each piece of application information received in the preset time period; and

determine if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition, by determining if the digest identical to the digest of the application information is stored in the information file.

9. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display a mark at a display position of the application information, the mark indicating that the application information is received; and

display the application information at the display position, if a display instruction from a user with respect to the mark is received.

10. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive the application information in an instant communication application.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of a terminal, cause the terminal to perform an information filtering method comprising:

calculating, based on application information received by the terminal, an information display characteristic of the application information, the information display characteristic representing a display feature of the application information;

determining the application information as interfering information, if the information display characteristic meets an interference characteristic condition; and

filtering out the application information,

wherein when the information display characteristic is display coordinates of the application information, the determining the application information as interfering information if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition comprises;

determining the application information as interfering information if the display coordinates fall within a preset interference coordinate range, and

the method further comprises;

acquiring historically recorded data on coordinate ranges in which target information is acquired; and

obtaining the preset interference coordinate range through statistical processing based on the data on the coordinate ranges, the data on the coordinate ranges comprising an average coordinate value of a preset number of positions clicked by a user in a process of continuously clicking a screen of the terminal.

12. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein when the information display characteristic is a digest of the application information, the determining the application information as interfering information if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition comprises:

comparing the digest of the application information with stored digests; and

determining the application information as interfering information if a digest identical to the digest of the application information exists in the stored digests.

13. The storage medium according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

storing an information file corresponding to a preset time period, the information file storing a digest of each piece of application information received in the preset time period; and

determining if the information display characteristic meets the interference characteristic condition, by determining if the digest identical to the digest of the application information is stored in the information file.

14. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the filtering out the application information comprises:

displaying a mark at a display position of the application information, the mark indicating that the application information is received; and

displaying the application information at the display position, if a display instruction from a user with respect to the mark is received.