Method, system, and apparatus for sharing application information

• US 9,621,638 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2014
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Wu, Xuezhu, Lin, Shengwei, Shao, Xing, Xiang, Lifei, Tan, Siying, Yu, Liang, Zhu, Deliang, Zhong, Yusheng, Lv, Jing, Zhu, Tao, Wu, Zhenyu, Huang, Jun, Zeng, Jia
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrao, Ranodhi
• Application Number:
  US14/457,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• 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 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method, a system, and an apparatus are provided for sharing application information. The method receives match request sent by a mobile terminal X upon receipt of a share instruction of a user. According to the match request, the method determines whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among other mobile terminals that send match request, and if a mobile terminal is found, sends a success message. When a server receives identifiers of applications to be shared sent from any one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals, the method determines whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server, if the other mobile terminal is online, obtains relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier respectively, and sends the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A method for sharing application information among mobile devices comprising:

receiving, by a server comprising a processor, a match request sent by a mobile terminal X upon receipt of a share instruction, the match request at least comprising information indicative of a first time at which the mobile terminal X receives the share instruction;

saving, by the server, the match request; and

according to the saved match request and other saved match requests from other mobile terminals, determining, by the server, whether there is a mobile terminal, among the other mobile terminals, that is matched with the mobile terminal X, wherein determining whether there is a match comprises;

if a time interval between a second time at which one mobile terminal of the other mobile terminals receives a share instruction and the first time is within a range [0, M], wherein M>

0, determining that the one mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X; and

if a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, sending a success message respectively to the mobile terminal X and to the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, indicating that they are successfully matched with each other; and

upon a condition that the server receives identifiers of applications to be shared and sent from one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals constituted by the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, determining, by the server, whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from the server, notifying the one mobile terminal that the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from matching; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is online, obtaining, by the server, relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier, and sending the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals, wherein the relevant information at least comprises a name and a download address of the application.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the match request sent by the mobile terminal X further comprises one or more geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal X, and

if the time interval between the first time and the second time is within the range [0, M], determining by the server whether a distance between geographic coordinates in the match request sent by the mobile terminal X and the geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is within a range [0, N], wherein N>

0; and

if the distance is within the range [0, N], determining that the mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining whether there is a mobile terminal among the other mobile terminals that is matched with the mobile terminal X comprises determining, during a preset duration T that starts from a time of receiving the match request sent by the mobile terminal X, whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals during each preset interval of t, wherein t<

T.

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

if no mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found after the preset duration T, sending a failure message to the mobile terminal X for indicating that no mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending the success message respectively to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal which is matched with the mobile terminal X, determining whether there is more than one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, and if only one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, sending the success message respectively to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X;

and

if more than one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, selecting one mobile terminal from the mobile terminals which are matched with the mobile terminal X, wherein a time interval between a third time at which the selected mobile terminal receives a share instruction and the first time is shortest, and sending the success message respectively to the mobile terminal X and the selected mobile terminal.

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

receiving, by the server, device model information or operating system information of each mobile terminal sent by each mobile terminal; and

before sending the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal, determining whether an application corresponding to each identifier is applicable for a device model or an operating system of the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals; and

when the server sends the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals, marking relevant information of an application that is not applicable for the device model or the operating system of the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receipt of the share instruction is initiated by the mobile terminal X when the mobile terminal X detects a shaking of the mobile terminal X.

8. A system for sharing application information, comprising at least two mobile terminals and a server, wherein:

each mobile terminal X is configured to send, upon receipt of a share instruction, a match request to the server, the match request at least comprising information indicative a first time at which the mobile terminal X receives the share instruction; and

the server is configured to,

receive the match request;

save the match request;

determine whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals according to the saved match request and other saved match requests from other mobile terminals, wherein the determination of whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals comprises;

if a time interval between a second time at which one mobile terminal of the other mobile terminals receives a share instruction and the first time is within a range [0, M], wherein M>

0, determine that the one mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X; and

if a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, send a success message to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal which is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively, indicating that they are successfully matched with each other;

upon a condition that the server receives identifiers of applications to be shared sent from one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals constituted by the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, determine whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server;

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from the server, notify the one mobile terminal that the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from matching; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is online, obtain relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier, and send the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal, wherein the relevant information at least comprises a name and a download address of the application.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the match request sent by the mobile terminal X further comprises one or more geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal X;

and

the server is further configured to, upon a condition of determining that the time interval between the second time and the first time is within the range [0, M], determine whether a distance between geographic coordinates in the match request sent by the mobile terminal X and the geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is within a range [0, N], wherein N>

0; and

if the distance is within the range [0, N], determine that the mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X.

10. A server, comprising:

at least one processor, configured to execute a first processing module and a second processing module, wherein

the first processing module is configured to, every time a match request sent by a mobile terminal X upon receipt of a share instruction is received, send the match request to the second processing module, and inform the second processing module to perform functions thereof, wherein the match request at least comprises information indicative a first time at which the mobile terminal X receives the share instruction; and

the second processing module is configured to

save the match request;

according to the saved match request and other saved match requests from other mobile terminals, determine whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals, wherein the determination of whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals comprises;

if a time interval between a second time at which one mobile terminal of the other mobile terminals receives a share instruction and the first time is within a range [0, M], wherein M>

0, determine that the one mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X;

if a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, send a success message respectively to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively, indicating that they are successfully matched with each other; and

upon a condition that the server receives identifiers of applications to be shared sent from one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals constituted by the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, determine whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server;

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from the server, notify the one mobile terminal that the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from matching; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is online, obtain relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier, and send the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal, wherein the relevant information at least comprises a name and a download address of the application.

11. The server according to claim 10, wherein

the match request sent by the mobile terminal X further comprises one or more geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal X;

and

the second processing module is further configured to, upon a condition of determining that the first time and the second time is within the range [0, M], determine whether a distance between geographic coordinates in the match request sent by the mobile terminal X and the geographic coordinates of the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is within a range [0, N], wherein N>

0; and

if the distance is within the range [0, N], determine that the mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X.

12. The server according to claim 10, wherein the second processing module comprises:

a first processing unit, configured to save the match request sent by the mobile terminal X, and determine, during a preset duration T that starts from a time of receiving the match request sent by the mobile terminal X, whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals during each preset interval of t, wherein t<

T; and

if a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, send a success message to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively; and

a second processing unit, configured to determine, upon a condition that the server receives identifiers of applications to be shared sent from one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals constituted by the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server;

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from the server, notify the one mobile terminal that the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from matching; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is online, obtain relevant information of an application corresponding to each identifier, and send the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal.

13. The server according to claim 12, wherein

the first processing unit is further configured to determine, before sending the success message to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively, whether there is more than one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X;

if only one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, send the success message to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively;

if more than one mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, select one mobile terminal from the mobile terminals which are matched with the mobile terminal X, wherein a time interval between a third time at which the selected mobile terminal receives a share instruction and the first time is shortest, match the selected mobile terminal with the mobile terminal X, and send the success message to the mobile terminal X and the selected mobile terminal respectively.

14. The server according to claim 12, wherein

the first processing module is further configured to receive device model information or operating system information of each mobile terminal sent from each mobile terminal, and send the information to the second processing unit;

and

the second processing unit is further configured to, before sending the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal, determine whether an application corresponding to each identifier is applicable for a device model or an operating system of the other mobile terminal; and

when sending the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal, mark relevant information of the application not applicable for the device model or the operating system of the other mobile terminal.

15. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions for directing a method of sharing application information, wherein an instruction set is stored therein, and when the instruction set is executed by at least one processor, performs a method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a match request sent by a mobile terminal X upon receipt of a share instruction, the match request at least comprising information indicative a first time at which the mobile terminal X receives the share instruction;

saving, by the server, the match request; and

according to the saved match request and other saved match requests from other mobile terminals, determining, by the server, whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals, wherein determining whether there is a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X among the other mobile terminals comprises;

if a time interval between a second time at which one mobile terminal of the other mobile terminals receives a share instruction and the first time is within a range [0, M], wherein M>

0, determining that the mobile terminal is matched with the mobile terminal X; and

if a mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X is found, sending a success message to the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X respectively, indicating that they are successfully matched with each other; and

upon a condition that the server receives identifiers of applications to be shared and sent from one mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals constituted by the mobile terminal X and the mobile terminal that is matched with the mobile terminal X, determining, by the server, whether the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is connected to the server;

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from the server, notifying the one mobile terminal that the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is disconnected from matching; and

if the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals is online, obtaining, by the server, relevant information of the application corresponding to each identifier, and sending the obtained relevant information to the other mobile terminal of the matched mobile terminals, wherein the relevant information at least comprises a name and a download address of the application.