SIGN-IN METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20150244557A1
• Filed: 05/12/2015
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: DENG, Xi
• Granted Patent: US 9,699,016 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Disclosed are a sign-in method and system. The method includes: obtaining, by using a location-based service (LBS) of a mobile terminal, geographical information of a current location of a person who signs in; binding the geographical information of the current location with identity information of the person who signs in and time information, using the geographical information of the current location, the identity information of the person who signs in, and the time information as sign-in information, and sending the sign-in information to a sign-in server; verifying, by the sign-in server, the sent sign-in information; and recording the sign-in information if the verification succeeds. The present disclosure not only can save costs of labor, material, and money, but also can enable several people to sign in simultaneously, thereby greatly improving sign-in efficiency.

Claims

1. A sign-in method, comprising:

obtaining, by using a location-based service (LBS) of a mobile terminal, geographical information of a current location of a person who signs in;

binding the geographical information of the current location with identity information of the person who signs in and time information, using the geographical information of the current location, the identity information of the person who signs in, and the time information as sign-in information, and sending the sign-in information to a sign-in server;

verifying, by the sign-in server, the sent sign-in information; and

recording the sign-in information if the verification succeeds.

2. The sign-in method according to claim 1, after the step of verifying, by the sign-in server, the sent sign-in information, further comprising:

feeding back, by the sign-in server, a verification result to the mobile terminal.

3. The sign-in method according to claim 1, wherein the step of verifying, by the sign-in server, the sent sign-in information comprises:

performing, by the sign-in server, verification by comparing the geographical information, the identity information of the person who signs in, and the time information in the sign-in information with geographical information, identity information of the person who signs in, and sign-in time information that correspond to a sign-in spot and are locally pre-stored.

4. The sign-in method according to claim 1, wherein the geographical information of the current location of the person who signs in is obtained in a Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning manner.

5. The sign-in method according to claim 1, wherein the geographical information is latitude and longitude information of the current location of the person who signs in.

6. A sign-in system, comprising:

a mobile location server, configured to provide a location-based service (LBS) by using a network;

one or more mobile terminals, configured to store identity information of a person who signs in, obtain, from the mobile location server, geographical information of a current location of the person who signs in, bind the geographical information of the current location with the identity information of the person who signs in and time information, use the geographical information of the current location, the identity information of the person who signs in, and the time information as sign-in information, and send the sign-in information; and

a sign-in server, configured to receive the sign-in information sent by the mobile terminals, verify the sign-in information, and record the sign-in information after the verification succeeds.

7. The sign-in system according to claim 6, wherein after completing the verification, the sign-in server feeds back a verification result to the mobile terminals.

8. The sign-in system according to claim 6, wherein the sign-in server comprises:

a communication unit, configured to receive and send data;

a sign-in information storing unit, configured to pre-store geographical information of each sign-in spot, and identity information of a person who signs in and sign-in time information that correspond to each sign-in spot;

a verification unit, configured to perform verification by comparing the sign-in information sent by the mobile terminal with geographical information, identity information of the person who signs in, and time information that correspond to the sign-in spot and are pre-stored in the sign-in information storing unit; and

a record information storing unit, configured to store sign-in information passing the verification.

9. The sign-in system according to claim 6, wherein the mobile location server obtains, in a Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning manner, the geographical information of the current location of the person who signs in.

10. The sign-in system according to claim 6, wherein the geographical information is latitude and longitude information of the current location of the person who signs in.