Data transmission

• US 9,591,616 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2015
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Company Limited (Ant Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Pang, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Masur, Paul H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jahangir, Kabir
• Application Number:
  US14/692,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20150312885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/033 of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0209 in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0219 where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for data transmission are described. A sending terminal sends data and a data identification of the data to a server. The data identification is broadcasted to one or more receiving terminals through a short distance wireless communication. The receiving terminal obtains the data from the server according to the data identification. When the sending terminal needs to transmit data to multiple receiving terminals, the techniques of the present disclosure do not require the sending terminal to establish a point-to-point connection with each of the receiving terminal. Thus, the techniques of the present disclosure effectively reduce transmission time with multiple receiving terminals, improve data transmission efficiency, and lower power consumption at the sending terminal.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sending, by a sending terminal, data and a data identification corresponding to the data to a server; and

broadcasting the data identification to one or more receiving terminals through a short distance wireless communication protocol, wherein the data identification is generated based on multiple parameters including at least a short distance communication method identification of the short distance wireless communication, a random number, and a time length from a previous particular time to a current time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the data and the data identification to the server enables a respective receiving terminal to obtain the data from the server according to the data identification.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the short distance wireless communication protocol includes Bluetooth communication protocol, Infrared communication protocol, or Zigbee communication protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending user identification of the sending terminal to the server.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a user identification of a receiving terminal that is allowed to receive the data to the server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data identification is broadcasted to one or more receiving terminals at a preset frequency within a preset time period.

7. A method comprising:

receiving, by a receiving terminal, a data identification broadcasted by a sending terminal through a short distance wireless communication protocol;

sending the data identification to a server; and

receiving data returned from the server that corresponds to the data identification, wherein the data identification is generated based on multiple parameters including at least a short distance communication method identification of the short distance wireless communication, a random number, and a time length from a previous particular time to a current time.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the short distance wireless communication protocol includes Bluetooth communication protocol, Infrared communication protocol, or Zigbee communication protocol.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining that the data is a user identification of the sending terminal; and

obtaining user information corresponding to the user identification of the sending terminal according to the user identification of the sending terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein obtaining the user information corresponding to the user identification of the sending terminal according to the user identification of the sending terminal comprises obtaining the user information corresponding to the user identification of the sending terminal from the server or a third party device according to the user identification of the sending terminal.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising sending a user identification of the receiving terminal to the server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein receiving the data returned from the server that corresponds to the data identification comprises receiving the data returned from the server that corresponds to the data identification after the user identification of the receiving terminal is determined to be a user identification of a receiving terminal that is allowed to receive the data.

13. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, data and a data identification corresponding to the data from a sending terminal;

receiving the data identification from a particular receiving terminal; and

sending the data to the receiving terminal, wherein the data identification is generated based on multiple parameters including at least a short distance communication method identification of the short distance wireless communication, a random number, and a time length from a previous particular time to a current time.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the data identification is broadcasted by the sending terminal to the receiving terminal through the short distance wireless communication protocol.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the short distance wireless communication protocol includes Bluetooth communication protocol, Infrared communication protocol, or Zigbee communication protocol.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving a user identification of the sending terminal from the sending terminal.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving respective one or more user identifications of one or more receiving terminals that are allowed to receive the data from the sending terminal.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving a user identification of the particular receiving terminal from the particular receiving terminal.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein sending the data to the particular receiving terminal comprises sending the data to the particular receiving terminal in response to determining that the user identification of the particular receiving terminal, is same as a user identification of the respective one or more user identifications.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the data identification is generated further based on a unique device identification of the sending terminal.