Systems and methods for assisting two terminals to establish connections therebetween

• US 10,555,354 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2018
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology And Development Co.Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology And Development Co.Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhang, Beibei
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Paul P
• Application Number:
  US15/870,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20180160464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 751 Days
• Field of Search: 4554143, 4554221, 4554563, 455518, 455519, 455520, 455521, 701 11, 701 49, 701400, 701465, 701487, 701522, 701533, 701540, 705 5, 705 713, 705 13
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/42 for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• 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 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for assisting two terminals to establish connections therebetween. The systems may perform the methods to receive first electronic signals from a second terminal, the first electronic signals including first structured data encoding terminal information of a first terminal associated with the second terminal; receive second electronic signals including second structured data encoding an identification of a third terminal; and send third electronic signals to the third terminal, the third electronic signals including third structured data encoding the terminal information of the first terminal.

Claims

1. A system of electronic device configured to operating an online transportation service platform, comprising:

a bus;

one or more storage media electronically connected to the bus, comprising a set of instructions for assisting two other terminals to establish connections therebetween; and

logic circuits configured to communicate with the one or more storage media via the bus, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the logic circuits are directed to;

receive first electronic signals from a second terminal, the first electronic signals including first structured data encoding terminal information of a first terminal associated with the second terminal;

receive second electronic signals including second structured data encoding an identification of a third terminal; and

send third electronic signals to the third terminal, the third electronic signals including third structured data encoding the terminal information of a display device of the first terminal, wherein the third structured data includes a first portion encoding the identification of the third terminal, a second portion encoding the terminal information of the display device of the first terminal including a short-range connection ID and password of the display device of the first terminal, a third portion encoding a command to direct the third terminal to initiate a process to establish a connection with the display device of the first terminal via a short-range connection based on the terminal information of the display device of the first terminal, so that a transportation service requestor directly accesses video data played on the display device, wherein the video data played on the display device is received from the third terminal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first terminal is associated with a vehicle, the second terminal is associated with a transportation service provider, and the third terminal is associated with the transportation service requestor;

and

the logic circuits are further directed to determine that the service provider is providing a transportation service to the service requestor.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first structured data includes a first portion encoding an identification of the first terminal, and

a second portion encoding connection information of the first terminal.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the connection information includes an authorization code to enable the first terminal to accept a connection request from the third terminal.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the third structured data include a third portion encoding a command to direct the third terminal to initiate a process to establish a communication connection with the first terminal based on the terminal information of the first terminal.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the communication connection between the third terminal and the first terminal is limited to unidirectional sending multimedia data from the third terminal to the first terminal.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first terminal is included in the second terminal.

8. A method implemented on a computing device having one or more processors and one or more storage media, the method comprising:

receiving, by the one or more processors, first electronic signals from a second terminal, the first electronic signals including first structured data encoding terminal information of a first terminal associated with the second terminal;

receiving, by the one or more processors, second electronic signals including second structured data encoding an identification of a third terminal; and

sending, by the one or more processors, third electronic signals to the third terminal, the third electronic signals including third structured data encoding the terminal information of a display device of the first terminal, wherein the third structured data includes a first portion encoding the identification of the third terminal, a second portion encoding the terminal information of the display device of the first terminal including a short-range connection ID and password of the display device of the first terminal, a third portion encoding a command to direct the third terminal to initiate a process to establish a connection with the display device of the first terminal via a short-range connection based on the terminal information of the display device of the first terminal, so that a transportation service requestor directly accesses visually or by hearing video data played on the display device, wherein the video data played on the display device is received from the third terminal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first terminal is associated with a vehicle, the second terminal is associated with a transportation service provider, and the third terminal is associated with the transportation service requestor;

and

the method further comprising;

determining, by the one or more processors, that the service provider is providing a transportation service to the service requestor.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first structured data includes a first portion encoding an identification of the first terminal, and

a second portion encoding connection information of the first terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the connection information includes an authorization code to enable the first terminal to accept a connection request from the third terminal.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the third structured data include a third portion encoding a command to direct the third terminal to initiate a process to establish a communication connection with the first terminal based on the connection information of the first terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the communication connection between the third terminal and the first terminal is limited to unidirectional sending multimedia data from the third terminal to the first terminal.

14. An electronic terminal, comprising:

one or more storage media comprising a set of instructions for connecting to another terminal device associated with an on-demand transportation platform; and

one or more processors configured to communicate with the one or more storage media, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the one or more processors are directed to;

receive first electronic signals from a computer server, the first electronic signals including first structured data encoding terminal information associated with a target terminal; and

generate second electronic signals to initiate a communication connection between the target terminal and the electronic terminal based on the terminal information of a display device of the target terminal, wherein the second structured data includes a first portion encoding the terminal information of a display device of the target terminal including a short-range connection ID and password of the display device of the target terminal, a second portion encoding a command to direct the electronic terminal to initiate a process to establish a connection with the display device of the target terminal via a short-range connection based on the terminal information of the display device of the target terminal, so that a user directly accesses video data played on the display device, wherein the video data played on the display device is received from the electronic terminal.

15. The electronic terminal of claim 14, wherein the computer server is associated with an online on-demand transportation service platform;

the target terminal is associated with a terminal of a transportation service provider who is providing a transportation service to the user of the electronic terminal.

16. The electronic terminal of claim 14, wherein the first structured data includes:

a first portion encoding an identification of the target terminal, and

a second portion encoding connection information of the target terminal.

17. The electronic terminal of claim 16, wherein the connection information includes an authorization code to enable the target terminal to accept a connection request from the electronic terminal.

18. The electronic terminal of claim 14, the one or more processors are further directed to:

access the one or more storage media to read multimedia contents stored therein;

encode the multimedia contents to second structured data; and

send third electronic signals encoding the second structured data to the target terminal via the communication connection.

19. The electronic terminal of claim 14, wherein the communication connection between the electronic terminal and the target terminal is limited to unidirectional sending multimedia data from the electronic terminal to the target terminal.

20. The electronic terminal of claim 14, wherein to initiate the communication connection between the target terminal and the electronic terminal the one or more processors are directed to:

send, to the target terminal, fourth electronic signals encoding a request of connecting the target terminal with the electronic terminal based on the terminal information of the display device of the target terminal;

receive, from the target terminal, fifth electronic signals encoding a response of agreeing to connect the target terminal with the electronic terminal; and

establish the communication connection between the target terminal and the electronic terminal based on the response.