Method And Apparatus For Classifying Users

• US 20130318202A1
• Filed: 07/26/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: MENG, Jinfeng, YU, Liang, ZHENG, Chunlei, WANG, Shengyuan, LI, Lingfei, DONG, Xijun, WANG, Boqiang
• Application Number:
  US13/951,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• 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 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for classifying users. The method includes establishing sub-lists in a stored user list of a user according to information of pre-set regions, receiving user location information uploaded by a user terminal of a user, obtaining all user lists that include the user; moving the user in each of the user lists into a sub-list in the user list corresponding to the location of the user; receives a pulling request from a user, obtains information of sub-lists in a user list of the user, sends the information of the sub-lists to the user terminal of the user via a pulling response to enable the user terminal to display users according to the information of the sub-lists received.

Claims

1. A method for classifying users, comprising:

obtaining information of location of each user and information of regions used by a classified user;

obtaining a user list of the classified user by classifying users in the user list whose locations correspond to the same region into a sub-list corresponding to the region by using location information of the users and the information of the regions used by the classified user to obtain a sub-list of the classified user for each region; and

obtaining, by a user terminal, information of a sub-list of the classified user for each region according to a pulling request of the classified user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating, by a server, stored location information of a user after receiving location information reported by the user;

wherein obtaining a user list of the classified user comprises;

obtaining, by the server, a user list of a user according to user information in a pulling request after receiving the pulling request from a user;

wherein classifying second users in the user list whose locations correspond to the same region into a sub-list and obtaining by a user terminal information of a sub-list of the classified user for each region comprise;

classifying, by the server, users in the user list whose locations correspond to the same region into a sub-list corresponding to the region to generate sub-lists corresponding to regions, and sending information of the sub-lists via a pulling response to the user terminal;

or sending, by the server, location information of users in the user list to the user terminal;

classifying, by the user terminal, the users in the user list whose locations correspond to the same region into a sub-list corresponding to the region to generate sub-lists corresponding to regions.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein classifying second users in the user list whose locations correspond to the same region into a sub-list and obtaining by a user terminal information of a sub-list of the classified user for each region comprise:

generating, by a server, sub-lists corresponding to pre-set regions in a stored user list corresponding to each user according to information of the pre-set regions;

receiving, by the server, information of a location of a user uploaded by the user, obtaining user lists which include the user, and moving the user from the user list into a sub-list corresponding to a region to which the location information of the user belongs;

receiving, by the server, a pulling request from a user, obtaining information of sub-lists in a user list of the user, and sending the information of the sub-lists to a user terminal of the user via a pulling response to enable the user terminal to display the user list according to the information of the sub-lists received.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after obtaining the information of sub-lists of the user,

displaying, by the user terminal, the information of the sub-lists.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein displaying by the user terminal the information of the sub-lists comprises:

matching, by the user terminal, information of the sub-lists in the pulling response with information of an electronic map obtained by the user terminal, and displaying information of users in each sub-list on the electronic map.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the pulling response includes information of an electronic map;

and wherein displaying by the user terminal the information of the sub-lists comprises;

receiving, by the user terminal, the pulling response, identifying each region in the electronic map and displaying users in each region on the electronic map when displaying the users and when the pulling response includes information of an electronic map.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

zooming the electronic map displayed, and displaying users in each region in the zoomed electronic map.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

zooming the electronic map displayed, and displaying users in each region in the zoomed electronic map.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein the information of the location of the user is matched with the information of the pre-set regions.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, by a user terminal, information of a current location of a user by using a Global Position System (GPS);

or

obtaining, by a user terminal, identification of a serving cell in the current network by using a positioning function;

sending, by the user terminal, a positioning request which includes the identification of the serving cell to a positioning server;

searching, by the positioning server, pre-stored relations which associates identifications of cells with information of locations to obtain information of a location corresponding to the identification of the serving cell in the positioning request, and returning a positioning response including the information of the location to the user terminal.

11. The method of any of claims 1, wherein the regions include administrative regions and/or latitude-longitude regions.

12. An apparatus for classifying users, comprising:

a region policy storing module, a region processing module, a user list storing module and a location-information-pulling module;

wherein

the region policy storing module is configured to store information of pre-defined regions;

the region processing module is configured to receive information of location of each user uploaded by a user terminal of the user, to search the user list storing module to obtain a user list which includes the user, and to send an establishing indication to the user list storing module;

the user list storing module is configured to store a user list of each user, to establish a sub-list corresponding to a region corresponding to the information of the location received by the region processing module in response to the establishing indication from the region processing module, and to move the user in the user list into the sub-list in the user list; and

the location-information-pulling module is configured to receive a pulling request from a second user, to obtain information of sub-lists in a user list of the second user and send the information of the sub-lists to a user terminal of the second user in a pulling response for the user terminal to display the user list according to the information of the sub-lists received.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the region policy storing module is further configured to send stored information of the regions to each user terminal to enable the user terminal to determine a region to which the location of the user terminal belongs by using the information of the regions and to report information of the region to the region processing module as the information of the location of the user terminal.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the location-information-pulling module is further configured to set information of an electronic map obtained in advance into the pulling response to enable the user terminal to identify the regions in the electronic map and to display users in each of the regions on the electronic map when displaying the users.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the location-information-pulling module is further configured to set information of an electronic map obtained in advance into the pulling response to enable the user terminal to identify the regions in the electronic map and to display users in each of the regions on the electronic map when displaying the users.

16. An apparatus for classifying user, comprising a storing module, a receiving module, a classifying module and a sending module;

wherein;

the storing module is configured to store a user list of each user and information of locations of users uploaded by user terminals;

the receiving module is configured to receive a pulling request from a user terminal;

the classifying module is configured to obtain information of regions, to obtain a user list of a user by using information of the user in the pulling request, to obtain information of a location of each second user in the user list from the storing module, to classify second users in the user list whose locations are corresponding to the same region into a sub-list corresponding to the region to obtain information of sub-lists of the user list corresponding to the regions; and

the sending module is configured to send the information of the sub-lists to the user terminal via a pulling response.

17. An apparatus for classifying user, comprising a reporting module, a pulling module and a classifying module;

wherein;

the reporting module is configured to report information of a location of a user to a server;

the pulling module is configured to send a pulling request to the server, to obtain information of a location of each second user in a user list of the user from the server by using user information in the pulling request;

the classifying module is configured to obtain information of regions, to classify second users in the user list whose locations are corresponding to the same region into a sub-list corresponding to the region to obtain information of sub-lists corresponding to the regions.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising a displaying module;

wherein

the displaying module is configured to display the information of the sub-lists of the user corresponding to the regions.