Information recommendation method and apparatus

• US 9,241,242 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2014
• Issued: 01/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Cheng, Gang, Zhuang, Ziming, Li, He, Liu, Yiyang, Chen, Jianqun, Pan, Xuan, Lu, Fang, Wang, Gudan, Zhai, Junjie, Qiu, Boyu
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US14/280,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20140315584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 611 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4563, 455/414.1, 707/767, 707/770, 707/776, 707/706, 707/723, 707/724
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/23 Indication means, e.g. displays, alarms, audible means
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/345 Interference values signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] H04B17/336
• 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 52/00 Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes gain control in transmitters or power amplifiers H03G3/3042

Abstract

An information recommendation method is provided for a terminal. The method includes obtaining at least one keyword, obtaining geographical location information corresponding to the keyword, and searching, within a range of a map interface display area, recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information. The method also includes displaying, according to the range of the map interface display area, geographical location information corresponding to the keyword, as well as the map interface having the recommendation information.

Claims

1. An information recommendation method for a terminal, comprising:

obtaining at least one keyword;

obtaining geographical location information corresponding to the keyword;

within a range of a map interface display area, searching recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information;

obtaining a user'"'"'s history information with the user'"'"'s interest;

obtaining recommendation information items described by information entity words;

when there are multiple recommendation information items found, sorting the multiple recommendation information items based on similarity values, wherein an information entity word of a recommendation information item having the largest similarity value with a user'"'"'s interest is used as the similarity value of the recommendation information item;

displaying a preset number of recommendation information items based on similarity values; and

according to the range of the map interface display area, displaying geographical location information corresponding to the keyword, as well as the map interface having the recommendation information.

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

displaying geographical location information corresponding to the recommendation information on the map interface.

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

determining the range of the map interface display area based on at least one of the display granularity of the map interface and the size of a display screen.

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

obtaining the recommendation information and the geographical location information corresponding to the recommendation information; and

creating a recommendation information database based on the obtained recommendation information and the corresponding geographical location information,

wherein the searching recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information further includes;

searching from the recommendation information database the recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the searching recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information further comprises:

searching, within the range of the map interface display area, recommendation information relevant or corresponding to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information and also matching the user'"'"'s history information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying geographical location information corresponding to the keyword and the map interface having the recommendation information further comprises:

when there are multiple recommendation information items found, sorting the multiple recommendation information items; and

displaying the recommendation information according to the sorted order.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sorting the multiple recommendation information items further comprises:

determining the user'"'"'s points of interest using the user'"'"'s history information; and

sorting the multiple recommendation information items based on the user'"'"'s points of interest.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the sorting the multiple recommendation information items further comprises:

sorting the multiple recommendation information items based on respective recommendation cost of the multiple recommendation information items.

9. An information recommendation apparatus, comprising:

a first obtaining module configured to obtain at least one keyword;

a second obtaining module configured to obtain geographical location information corresponding to the keyword;

a searching module configured to, within a range of a map interface display area, search recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information;

a third obtaining module configured to obtain a user'"'"'s history information with the user'"'"'s interest;

obtain recommendation information items described by information entity words;

when there are multiple recommendation information items found, sort the multiple recommendation information items based on similarity values, wherein an information entity word of a recommendation information item having the largest similarity value with a user'"'"'s interest is used as the similarity value of the recommendation information item; and

a display module configured to, according to the range of the map interface display area, display geographical location information corresponding to the keyword, a preset number of recommendation information items based on similarity values, as well as the map interface having the recommendation information.

10. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the display module is further configured to:

display geographical location information corresponding to the recommendation information the map interface.

11. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a determining module configured to determine the range of the map interface display area based on at least one of the display granularity of the map interface and the size of a display screen.

12. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a third obtaining module configured to obtain the recommendation information and the geographical location information corresponding to the recommendation information; and

a creating module configured to create a recommendation information database based on the obtained recommendation information and the corresponding geographical location information,

wherein the searching module is further configured to search from the recommendation information database the recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information.

13. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, to search recommendation information relevant to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information, the searching module is further configured to:

obtain a user'"'"'s history information; and

search, within the range of the map interface display area, recommendation information relevant or corresponding to geographical locations adjacent to the geographical location corresponding to the geographical location information and also matching the user'"'"'s history information.

14. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sorting unit is further configured to:

determine the user'"'"'s points of interest using the user'"'"'s history information; and

sort the multiple recommendation information items based on the user'"'"'s points of interest.

15. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sorting unit is further configured to:

sort the multiple recommendation information items based on respective recommendation cost of the multiple recommendation information items.

16. The information recommendation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the display module further comprises:

a sorting unit configured to, when there are multiple recommendation information items found, sort the multiple recommendation information items; and

a displaying unit configured to display the recommendation information according to the sorted order.