Method for deleting push information, server, and terminal device

• US 10,638,258 B2
• Filed: 01/02/2019
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Liu, Shuyan, Zhang, Tian
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US16/238,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20190141477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 4554121, 4554561, 4554042
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0295 Proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/14 Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• 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 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication

Abstract

A method, a server, and a terminal device of deleting a piece of push information are disclosed. The method includes: determining geographical location information of a terminal device; determining, according to the geographical location information and a preset database, whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place, and if affirmative, pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device, the database storing regional range information of each place and related pieces of information; and after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place, sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device, so that the terminal device deletes the piece of push information. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, interference caused by pieces of push information to the daily life of users can be avoided.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining geographical location information of a terminal device;

determining that the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a place based on the geographical location information and a preset database;

pushing a piece of information related to the place to the terminal device or an application of the terminal device to cause the terminal device to prompt the related piece of information;

determining whether a message is received from the terminal device indicating that the piece of information has been viewed; and

sending an instruction of deleting the piece of push information to the terminal device to cause the terminal device or the application to automatically delete the piece of push information from the terminal device after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset database stores regional range information of a plurality of places and respective related pieces of information.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the regional range information of the plurality of places comprises at least one of respective location information of the plurality of places, or respective identifier information of corresponding wireless networks deployed in the plurality of places.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the geographical location information of the terminal device comprises determining the geographical location information of the terminal device based on positioning information uploaded by the terminal device.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising determining whether the terminal device enters or leaves the regional range corresponding to the place based at least in part on the positioning information and location information corresponding to each place that is pre-stored in the preset database.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the geographical location information of the terminal device comprises:

determining an Internet access mode of the terminal device;

determining identifier information of a wireless network if the Internet access mode is an Internet access via the wireless network; and

setting the identifier information of the wireless network as the geographical location information.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising determining whether the terminal device enters the regional range corresponding to the place based on correspondence relationships between a plurality of places and respective wireless network identifiers stored in the preset database.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place in response to determining that the terminal device switches to another Internet access mode or another wireless network.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, by a terminal device or an application of the terminal device, a piece of information pushed by a server, the piece of push information being related to a place where the terminal device is currently located;

determining whether to send a message to the server indicating that the piece of push information has been viewed; and

deleting, by a terminal device or the application, the piece of push information from the terminal device automatically in response to receiving an instruction of deleting the piece of push information sent by the server, the instruction being sent by the server after the terminal device leaves the place.

10. The method according to claim 9, the acts further comprising:

sending positioning information acquired from the terminal device to the server, to enable the server to determine geographical location information of the terminal device based on the positioning information, and to determine whether the terminal device enters or leaves the regional range corresponding to the place based on the geographical location information and regional range information corresponding to each place that is pre-stored in a database.

11. The method according to claim 9, the acts further comprising receiving and locally storing one or more pieces of information to be pushed from the server in advance, the one or more pieces of information including respective one or more regional range attributes.

12. The method according to claim 11, the acts further comprising:

determining geographical location information of the terminal device; and

determining whether the terminal device leaves a regional range corresponding to the place based at least in part the geographical location information, wherein the piece of push information is deleted after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the place.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein determining the geographical location information of the terminal device comprises determining the geographical location information of the terminal device based on at least one of positioning information of the terminal device or identifier information of a wireless network via which the terminal device is connected to the Internet.

14. One or more computer-readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by a terminal device or an application of the terminal device, cause the terminal device or the application to perform acts comprising:

receiving and locally storing pieces of information to be pushed from a server in advance, the pieces of information including respective regional range attributes;

determining geographical location information of the terminal device;

determining whether the terminal device enters a regional range corresponding to a particular piece of information according to the geographical location information, and prompting the piece of information if affirmative;

determining whether the piece of information has been viewed; and

deleting the piece of information from the terminal device automatically after determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the piece of information.

15. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 14, wherein the particular piece of information is associated with a particular place.

16. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 14, wherein the respective regional range attributes comprises at least one of respective location information of the pieces of information, or respective identifier information of corresponding wireless networks associated with the pieces of information.

17. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 14, wherein determining the geographical location information of the terminal device comprises determining the geographical location information of the terminal device based on positioning information uploaded by the terminal device.

18. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 17, the acts further comprising determining whether the terminal device enters or leaves the regional range corresponding to the particular piece of information by comparing the positioning information with a corresponding regional range attribute of the particular piece of information.

19. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 14, wherein determining the geographical location information of the terminal device comprises:

determining an Internet access mode of the terminal device;

determining identifier information of a wireless network if the Internet access mode is an Internet access via the wireless network; and

setting the identifier information of the wireless network as the geographical location information.

20. The one or more computer-readable media according to claim 19, further comprising:

determining whether the terminal device enters the regional range corresponding to the particular piece of information based on a respective wireless network identifier included in a corresponding regional range attribute of the particular piece of information; and

determining that the terminal device leaves the regional range corresponding to the particular piece of information in response to determining that the terminal device switches to another Internet access mode or another wireless network.