METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MICROBLOG DYNAMICS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140372422A1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: ZHANG, Jing, Hou, Xiaomin, Zhao, Yang, Qiao, Liwei
• Granted Patent: US 10,078,704 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/724
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• 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

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for displaying microblog dynamics. The method includes: obtaining a microblog viewing request containing first location information; searching microblog dynamic information containing second location information, wherein a distance between the first location and the second location is within a preset range; and obtaining an electronic map corresponding to the first location information, and showing the microblog dynamic information in a location corresponding to the second location information on the electronic map. Various embodiments of the present invention also provide a device for displaying microblog dynamics and a computer storage medium.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining a microblog viewing request including first location information indicating a first location which is a real geographic location where a user making the microblog viewing request is located or a geographic location set by the user making the microblog viewing request;

searching for respective microblog dynamic information, each respective microblog dynamic information including any of microblog content, user profile information of a user that posted the microblog content, and second location information indicating a second location which is a location of the user that posted the microblog content or a location of the microblog content, wherein the searching searches for respective microblog dynamic information in which a distance between the first location and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within a preset range, to thereby find a plurality of respective microblog dynamic information in which the distance between the first location and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within the preset range;

obtaining an electronic map corresponding to the first location; and

for respective microblog dynamic information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information,

displaying at least a piece of the respective microblog dynamic information in a location corresponding to the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information includes a first microblog dynamic information and a second microblog dynamic information, the method further comprising:

obtaining a proportional scale of the electronic map;

calculating a display distance between a piece of the first microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map and a piece of the second microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map according to the second location indicated by the second location information of the first microblog dynamic information, the second location indicated by the second location information of the second microblog dynamic information, and the proportional scale of the electronic map; and

when the display distance is less than or equal to a preset distinguishable distance, displaying the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in a partial overlapping manner.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

obtaining an unfolding instruction;

unfolding the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information which are displayed in a partial overlapping manner according to the unfolding instruction; and

displaying the unfolded piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the unfolded piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining a switching instruction; and

switching the electronic map between a first state displaying at least a piece of the user profile information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information and a second state displaying at least a piece of the microblog content of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information according to the switching instruction.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising at least one of the following:

when the display state is the second state, randomly displaying a part of the microblog content of a respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in an amplified manner; and

when the display state is the first state, obtaining a filtering instruction including a profile condition selected by the user, and filtering the user profile information of a respective microblog dynamic information according to the profile condition included in the filtering instruction.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining a detail illustration instruction;

pulling microblog detail information corresponding to a respective microblog dynamic information of which at least a piece is being displayed on the electronic map, from a microblog platform, according to the detail illustration instruction; and

displaying the pulled microblog detail information.

7. A device comprising:

a starting module, configured to obtain a microblog viewing request including first location information indicating a first location which is a real geographic location where a user making the microblog viewing request is located or a geographic location set by the user making the microblog viewing request;

a searching module, configured to search for respective microblog dynamic information, each respective microblog dynamic information including any of microblog content, user profile information of a user that posted the microblog content, and second location information indicating a second location which is a location of the user that posted the microblog content or a location of the microblog content, wherein the search searches for respective microblog dynamic information in which a distance between the first location and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within a preset range, to thereby find a plurality of respective microblog dynamic information in which the distance between the first location and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within the preset range; and

a showing module, configured to obtain an electronic map corresponding to the first location, and configured to, for respective microblog dynamic information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information, display at least a piece of the respective microblog dynamic information in a location corresponding to the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information includes a first microblog dynamic information and a second microblog dynamic information, the device further comprising:

an aggregation module configured to obtain a proportional scale of the electronic map;

to calculate a display distance between a piece of the first microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map and a piece of the second microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map according to the second location indicated by the second location information of the first microblog dynamic information, the second location indicated by the second location information of the second microblog dynamic information, and the proportional scale of the electronic map; and

when the display distance is less than or equal to a preset distinguishable distance, configured to display the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in a partial overlapping manner.

9. The device of claim 8, further comprising:

an unfolding module configured to obtain an unfolding instruction;

to unfold the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information which are displayed in a partial overlapping manner according to the unfolding instruction; and

to display the unfolded piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the unfolded piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

10. The device of claim 7, further comprising:

a switching module configured to obtain a switching instruction; and

to switch the electronic map between a first state displaying at least a piece of the user profile information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information and a second state displaying at least a piece of the microblog content of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information according to the switching instruction.

11. The device of claim 10, further comprising at least one of:

an amplified displaying module, configured to, when the display state is the second state, randomly display a part of the microblog content of a respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in an amplified manner; and

a filter module configured to, when the display state is the first state, obtain a filtering instruction including a profile condition selected by the user, and to filter the user profile information of a respective microblog dynamic information according to the profile condition included in the filtering instruction.

12. The device of claim 7, further comprising:

a detail information pulling module configured to obtain a detail illustration instruction;

to pull microblog detail information corresponding to a respective microblog dynamic information of which at least a piece is being displayed on the electronic map, from a microblog platform according to the detail illustration instruction;

wherein the showing module is further configured to display the pulled microblog detail information.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by at least one computer, cause the at least one computer to perform:

obtaining a microblog viewing request including first location information indicating a first location which is a real geographic location where a user making the microblog viewing request is located or a geographic location set by the user making the microblog viewing request;

searching for respective microblog dynamic information, each respective microblog dynamic information including microblog content, user profile information of a user that posted the microblog content, and second location information indicating a second location which is a location of the user that posted the microblog content or a location of the microblog content, wherein the searching searches for respective microblog dynamic information in which a distance between the first location information and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within a preset range, to thereby find a plurality of respective microblog dynamic information in which the distance between the first location and the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information is within the preset range;

obtaining an electronic map corresponding to the first location; and

for a respective microblog dynamic information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information,

displaying at least a piece of the respective microblog dynamic information in a location corresponding to the second location indicated by the second location information of the respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information includes a first microblog dynamic information and a second microblog dynamic information and, when executed by the at least one computer, the computer executable instructions further cause the at least one computer to perform:

obtaining a proportional scale of the electronic map;

calculating a display distance between a piece of the first microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map and a piece of the second microblog dynamic information to be displayed on the electronic map according to the second location indicated by the second location information of the first microblog dynamic information, the second location indicated by the second location information of the second microblog dynamic information, and the proportional scale of the electronic map; and

when the display distance is less than or equal to a preset distinguishable distance, displaying the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in a partial overlapping manner.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 14, wherein, when executed by the at least one computer, the computer executable instructions further cause the at least one computer to perform:

obtaining an unfolding instruction;

unfolding the piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the piece of the second microblog dynamic information which are displayed in a partial overlapping manner according to the unfolding instruction; and

displaying the unfolded piece of the first microblog dynamic information and the unfolded piece of the second microblog dynamic information on the electronic map.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein, when executed by the at least one computer, the computer executable instructions further cause the at least one computer to perform:

obtaining a switching instruction; and

switching the electronic map between a first state displaying at least a piece of the user profile information of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information and a second state displaying at least a piece of the microblog content of the found plurality of respective microblog dynamic information according to the switching instruction.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 16, wherein, when executed by the at least one computer, the computer executable instructions further cause the at least one computer to perform at least one of:

when the display state is the second state, randomly displaying a part of the microblog content of a respective microblog dynamic information on the electronic map in an amplified manner; and

when the display state is the first state, obtaining a filtering instruction including a profile condition selected by the user, and filtering the user profile information of a respective microblog dynamic information according to the profile condition included in the filtering instruction.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 13, wherein, when executed by the at least one computer, the computer executable instruction further cause the at least one computer to perform:

obtaining a detail illustration instruction;

pulling microblog detail information corresponding to a respective microblog dynamic information of which at least a piece is being displayed on the electronic map from a microblog platform, according to the detail illustration instruction; and

displaying the pulled microblog detail information.