Communication terminal and information transmission processing method therefor

• US 9,204,248 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2011
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Yong, Song, Chunyu
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US13/819,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20130165156A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,562 Days
• Field of Search: 455518-519, 455/550.1, 4554561-457, 455/466, 370/254
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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

Abstract

Provided in the present invention are a communication terminal and an information transmission processing method therefor. The communication terminal comprises: a communication processing module (6); a location information acquisition module (1), configured to acquire location information of users of a first user set; a target location acquisition module (2), configured to acquire a target location; a filter module (3), configured to filter a second user set from the first user set on the basis of the location information of the users of the first user set and the target location; a content acquisition module (4), configured to acquire content to be transmitted; an information transmission module (5), configured to transmit the content to be transmitted to each of users of the second user set via the communication processing module (6). According to the present invention, the amount of user input is reduced, and it thus increases efficiency of information transmission greatly, particularly when the number of target users is relatively large.

Claims

1. A communication terminal, comprising:

a communication processing module;

a location information acquisition module configured to acquire location information of users of a first user set;

a content acquisition module configured to acquire, from a user of the communication terminal, content to be transmitted to and rendered on communication terminals of receiving users;

a target location acquisition module configured to acquire a target location by using location information included in the content to be transmitted and rendered;

a filter module configured to filter a second user set from the first user set on the basis of the location information of the users of the first user set and the target location;

and

an information transmission module configured to transmit the content to be transmitted and rendered only to each of users of the second user set via the communication processing module.

2. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

an electronic map presenting module configured to present an electronic map,

wherein the target location acquisition module is further configured to determine the target location on the basis of operations on the electronic map.

3. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

an electronic map storage module configured to store an electronic map; and

an original location acquisition module configured to acquire original location information,

wherein the target location acquisition module is further configured to determine the target location by searching in the electronic map on the basis of the original location information.

4. The communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

an electronic map storage module configured to store an electronic map,

wherein the target location acquisition module is further configured to determine the target location by searching in the electronic map on the basis of the content to be transmitted.

5. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the target location is an expected area, and wherein location information of users of the second user set indicates that the users of the second user set are located within the expected area.

6. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the target location is an expected area, and wherein location information of users of the second user set indicates that the users of the second user set are located outside of the expected area.

7. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information transmission module comprises:

a short message processing module configured to enclose the content to be transmitted into a short message, and transmit the short message to each of users of the second user set via the communication processing module;

or

an instant message processing module configured to enclose the content to be transmitted into an instant message for an instant messenger, and transmit the instant message to each of users of the second user set via the communication processing module.

8. The communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the filter module comprises:

a first filter unit configured to filter a third user set from the first user set, wherein locations of users of the third user set and the target location have a predetermined location filter relation; and

a second filter unit configured to filter the second user set from the third user set on the basis of auxiliary filter information of the users of the third user set which is different from the location information, wherein the auxiliary filter information of the users of the second user set meets a predetermined auxiliary filter condition.

9. An information transmission processing method for a communication terminal, comprising:

acquiring location information of users of a first user set;

acquiring, from a user of the communication terminal, content to be transmitted to and rendered on communication terminals of receiving users;

acquiring a target location by using location information included in the content to be transmitted and rendered;

filtering a second user set from the first user set on the basis of the location information of the users of the first user set and the target location; and

transmitting the content to be transmitted and rendered only to each of users of the second user set after the content to be transmitted is acquired.

10. The information transmission processing method according to claim 9, wherein the target location is determined on the basis of operations on an electronic map stored in the communication terminal.

11. The information transmission processing method according to claim 9, wherein the target location is acquired by searching in an electronic map stored in the communication terminal on the basis of input original location information.

12. The information transmission processing method according to claim 9, wherein the target location is acquired by searching in an electronic map stored in the communication terminal on the basis of the content to be transmitted.

13. The information transmission processing method according to claim 9, wherein the step of filtering a second user set from the first user set on the basis of the location information of the users of the first user set and the target location comprises steps of:

filtering a third user set from the first user set, wherein locations of users of the third user set and the target location have a predetermined location filter relation; and

filtering the second user set from the third user set on the basis of auxiliary filter information of the users of the third user set which is different from the location information, wherein the auxiliary filter information of the users of the second user set meets a predetermined auxiliary filter condition.