Application recommendation method, device, and system

• US 10,038,737 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2014
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Zijun
• Primary Examiner(s): Ndiaye, Cheikh
• Assistant Examiner(s): HABTEMARIAM, MELAKU Y
• Application Number:
  US14/528,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20150052195A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-204, 709217, 709232
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• 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

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an application recommendation method, device, and system, which relate to the field of network technologies, and can recommend an application related to a service system to a user in real time according to location information of a terminal device and the service system, to save the user'"'"'s time for querying the application. The method includes initiating a broadcast message to each service system located within a preset geographic location range, so that each service system returns a response message; and when an application corresponding to a response message of the service system is not installed in a terminal device, sending a download request to a server; and downloading and installing the application according to download information sent by the server.

Claims

1. An application recommendation method comprising:

receiving, by a terminal device, a message from each electronic device in one or more electronic devices located within a preset area, each of the one or more electronic devices being controllable by the terminal device using an application installed in the terminal device, the message received from each electronic device comprising a service type and a service identifier of a corresponding electronic device, wherein a service type and a service identifier of an electronic device allows the terminal device to identify an application that is used to control operations of the electronic device through the terminal device;

determining, by the terminal device, whether an application used for controlling an electronic device in the one or more electronic devices through the terminal device has been installed in the terminal device based on a message sent by the electronic device in the one or more electronic devices to the terminal device; and

when an application corresponding to an electronic device in the one or more electronic devices is not installed in the terminal device, sending, by the terminal device, a download request to a server that is different from the one or more electronic devices, so that the server returns download information, and

downloading and installing the application according to the download information returned by the server automatically, or downloading and installing the application according to the download information returned by the server upon receiving a confirmation from a user; and

wherein;

a broadcast message is sent by the terminal device, the broadcast message carrying a terminal device identifier and a user identifier that are used by the one or more electronic devices to identify the terminal device that sends the broadcast message and a user who sends the broadcast message, respectively;

a message sent by an electronic device carries a uniform resource locator (URL) address of an application store, so that the terminal device determines whether an application of the electronic device corresponding to a service type and a service identifier has already been installed, and when the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier is not installed in the terminal device, sends a download request to the server according to the URL address; and

the download request comprises a service type and a service identifier of an electronic device corresponding to an application that is not installed, so that the server searches for the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message sent by the electronic device further carries a service version of the electronic device.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset area refers to a range in which a connection can be established between the terminal device and an electronic device using a near field communication (NFC) protocol.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising initiating a broadcast message to each electronic device located within the preset area every preset first time interval, wherein the broadcast message comprises information that is used by each electronic device to identify the terminal device.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising initiating a broadcast message to each electronic device located within the preset area upon receiving of a user'"'"'s detection instruction, wherein the broadcast message comprises information that is used by each electronic device to identify the terminal device.

6. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

sending, by an application that has already been installed in the terminal device, a display message to an electronic device corresponding to the application that has already been installed every preset second time interval; and

determining a display state of the application that has already been installed according to a display response message returned by the electronic device, the display state indicates whether the electronic device is located within the preset area.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein:

the display state comprises a first display state and a second display state;

the determining the display state of the application that has already been installed according to the display response message returned by the electronic device comprises;

displaying the application, when the electronic device returns a display response message, in the first display state; and

displaying the application, when the electronic device does not return a display response message, in the second display state.

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

initiating a broadcast message to each electronic device, and determining, according to messages returned by the one or more electronic devices, a display state of each application that has already been installed in the terminal device.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein:

the display state of each application comprises a first display state and a second display state;

the determining, according to the messages returned by the one or more electronic devices, the display state of each application that has already been installed in the terminal device comprises;

displaying an application, which has already been installed in the terminal device and is corresponding to an electronic device that returns a message, in the first display state; and

displaying an application, which has already been installed in the terminal device and is corresponding to an electronic device that does not return a message, in the second display state.

10. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

generating an application use list according to a situation of a user'"'"'s use of an application.

11. A terminal device comprising:

a memory storage comprising instructions; and

one or more processors in communication with the memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to;

receive a message from each electronic device in one or more electronic devices located within a preset area, each of the one or more electronic devices being controllable using an application installed in the terminal device, the message received from each electronic device comprising a service type and a service identifier of a corresponding electronic device, wherein a service type and a service identifier of an electronic device allows the terminal device to identify an application that is used to control operations of the electronic device through the terminal device;

determine whether an application used for controlling an electronic device through the terminal device has already been installed in the terminal device based on a message sent by the electronic device to the terminal device; and

when an application used for controlling an electronic device through the terminal device is not installed in the terminal device, send, by the terminal device, a download request to a server, and

download and install the application according to download information sent by the server automatically, or download and install the application according to the download information sent by the server upon receiving a confirmation from a user; and

wherein;

a broadcast message is sent by the terminal device, the broadcast message carrying a terminal device identifier and a user identifier that are used by an electronic device to identify the terminal device that sends the broadcast message and a user who sends the broadcast message, respectively;

a message sent by an electronic device to the terminal device carries a service type and a service identifier of the electronic device corresponding to an application and a uniform resource locator (URL) address of an application store, so that the terminal device determines whether the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier has already been installed, and when the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier is not installed in the terminal device, sends a download request to the server according to the URL address; and

the download request comprises a service type and a service identifier of a service system corresponding to an application that is not installed, so that the server searches for the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier.

12. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to further:

determine and display a display state of each application that has already been installed in the terminal device, wherein a display state of an application indicates whether a corresponding electronic device is within the preset area.

13. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to further:

determine and display a display state of each application that has already been installed in the terminal device, wherein a display state of an application indicates whether a corresponding electronic device is within the preset area.

14. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to further:

generate an application use list according to a situation of a user'"'"'s use of an application.

15. A service system front end device comprising:

a memory storage comprising instructions; and

one or more processors in communication with the memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to;

receive a broadcast message sent by a terminal device located within a preset area of the service system front end device, the broadcast message being sent by the terminal device for detecting one or more service system front end devices within the preset area of the terminal device, wherein each of the one or more service system front end devices can be controlled using an application installed in the terminal device; and

send a response message to the terminal device in response to the broadcast message, the response message comprising a service type and a service identifier of the service system front end device for the terminal device to identify an application that is used for controlling operations of the service system front end device through the terminal device, wherein the response message is used by the terminal device to determine whether the application has already been installed in the terminal device; and

wherein;

the broadcast message carries a terminal device identifier and a user identifier that are used by the service system front end device to identify the terminal device that sends the broadcast message and a user who sends the broadcast message, respectively; and

the response message further carries a uniform resource locator CURL) address of an application store, so that the terminal device determines whether an application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier has already been installed, and when the application corresponding to the service type and the service identifier is not installed in the terminal device, sends a download request to a server according to the URL address.

16. The service system front end device according to claim 15, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to further, after receiving a display message sent by an application in the terminal device, return a display response message to the terminal device, the display response message indicates that the service system front end device is located within the preset area.

17. The service system front end device according to claim 15, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to further, after receiving a display message sent by an application in the terminal device, return a display response message to the terminal device, the display response message indicates that the service system front end device is located within the preset area.