Instruction triggering method and device, user information acquisition method and system, terminal, and server

• US 9,454,234 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2014
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zhang, Xiaolong, Wu, Guanchu, Xie, Yongbo, Huang, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US14/513,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20150054737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for triggering an instruction, methods and systems for obtaining user information, a terminal, and a server. The instruction triggering method includes: detecting a shaking operation of a mobile terminal; and triggering a preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation. The user information obtaining method includes: when a mobile terminal detects a shaking operation, the mobile terminal sending a user information obtaining request to a server; and the mobile terminal receiving user information of a matching user returned according to the user information by the server. Another user information obtaining method includes: after a server receives a user information obtaining request triggered by a shaking operation of a mobile terminal, obtaining a user who matches the user information obtaining request and sending user information of the matching user to the mobile terminal. The present disclosure improves the convenience of operations and provides a widely used experience of randomly making friends.

Claims

1. An instruction triggering method, comprising:

detecting a shaking operation of a mobile terminal;

starting to count time in response to determining that the mobile terminal detects the shaking operation, and in response to determining that counted time is up to a specified length, determining whether the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time; and

triggering a preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation in response to determining that the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time.

2. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the shaking operation of the mobile terminal comprises:

detecting the shaking operation of the mobile terminal by using an accelerometer.

3. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein triggering the preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation comprises:

triggering the preset input instruction according to detected shaking amplitude and/or shaking frequency of the mobile terminal.

4. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein after the step of triggering the preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation, the method further comprises:

playing an animation and/or a sound according to the shaking operation.

5. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein the preset input instruction is a screen unlocking instruction;

and

after the step of triggering the preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation, the method further comprises;

unlocking a display screen of the mobile terminal according to the preset input instruction.

6. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein the preset input instruction is an incoming call answer/termination instruction;

and

after the step of triggering the preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation, the method further comprises;

answering or terminating an incoming call according to the preset input instruction.

7. The instruction triggering method according to claim 1, wherein the preset input instruction is a data sending instruction;

and

after the step of triggering the preset input instruction according to the detected shaking operation, the method further comprises;

sending data to a server according to the preset input instruction.

8. A user information obtaining method, comprising:

sending a user information obtaining request to a server by a mobile terminal in response to determining that the mobile terminal detects a shaking operation; and

,

receiving user information of a matching user returned from the server according to the user information obtaining request by the mobile terminal,

wherein sending the user information obtaining request to the server by the mobile terminal in response to determining that the mobile terminal detects the shaking operation comprises;

starting to count time in response to determining that the mobile terminal detects the shaking operation, and in response to determining that counted time is up to a specified length, determining whether the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time; and

sending the user information obtaining request to the server by the mobile terminal in response to determining that the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time.

9. The user information obtaining method according to claim 8, wherein sending the user information obtaining request to the server by the mobile terminal in response to determining that the mobile terminal detects the shaking operation comprises:

generating the user information obtaining request and sending the user information obtaining request to the server by the mobile terminal according to detected shaking amplitude and/or shaking frequency of the mobile terminal.

10. The user information obtaining method according to claim 8, wherein the user information obtaining request comprises:

a first user identification corresponding to the mobile terminal.

11. The user information obtaining method according to claim 10, wherein the user information obtaining request further comprises:

interest information of a first user corresponding to the mobile terminal, or

the interest information of the first user corresponding to the mobile terminal and a specified condition.

12. The user information obtaining method according to claim 10, wherein the user information obtaining request further comprises:

request time submitted by the mobile terminal.

13. The user information obtaining method according to claim 10, wherein the user information obtaining request further comprises:

geographical location information submitted by the mobile terminal.

14. A user information obtaining method, comprising:

receiving a user information obtaining request triggered by a shaking operation of a mobile terminal; and

obtaining a matching user who matches the user information obtaining request and sending user information of the matching user to the mobile terminal;

wherein the user information obtaining request comprises;

request time submitted by the mobile terminal;

and obtaining the matching user who matches the user information obtaining request comprises;

obtaining a user a time difference between whose request time and the request time submitted by the mobile terminal is smaller than or equal to a second threshold as the matching user by the server.

15. The user information obtaining method according to claim 14, wherein the user information obtaining request comprises:

a first user identification corresponding to the mobile terminal which sends the user information obtaining request;

or

the first user identification corresponding to the mobile terminal which sends the user information obtaining request and interest information of a first user;

or

the first user identification corresponding to the mobile terminal which sends the user information obtaining request and interest information of the first user, and a specified condition.

16. The user information obtaining method according to claim 15, wherein obtaining the matching user who matches the user information obtaining request comprises:

obtaining the interest information of the first user saved on the server according to the first user identification carried in the user information obtaining request, and matching the interest information of the first user with interest information of multiple second users to determine a matching user by the server;

or

matching the interest information of the first user with the interest information of the multiple second users to determine the matching user according to the first user identification and the interest information of the first user carried in the user information obtaining request by the server.

17. The user information obtaining method according to claim 16, wherein matching the interest information of the first user with the interest information of the multiple second users to determine the matching user comprises:

determining a matching object group from the multiple second users; and

matching the interest information of the first user with interest information of each of second users in the matching object group to determine the matching user.

18. The user information obtaining method according to claim 17, wherein determining the matching object group from the multiple second users comprises:

obtaining a first specified group from the multiple second users according to first time, and taking the first specified group as the matching object group, the first time being time when the user information obtaining request of the terminal of the first user is received, and each of second users in the first specified group is a user corresponding to a user information obtaining request received during a time period to which the first time belongs;

or

in response to determining that the user information obtaining request carries the specified condition, obtaining a second specified group from the multiple second users and taking the second specified group as the matching object group, user information of each of second users in the second specified group all meeting the specified condition.

19. The user information obtaining method according to claim 17, wherein matching the interest information of the first user with the interest information of each of the second users in the matching object group to determine the matching user comprises:

calculating a distance between a first vector and each of second vectors respectively to get multiple distances, taking reciprocals of the multiple distances as interest matching degrees between corresponding second users and the first user, obtaining a preset number of second users from the multiple second users according to an order of interest matching degrees, and determining the preset number of the second users as the matching user, wherein the first vector is a vector corresponding to the interest information of the first user and a second vector is a vector corresponding to interest information of a second user;

or

clustering the first vector and each of the second vectors by using a clustering algorithm and determining a second user corresponding to a second vector which belongs to a same category with the first vector as the matching user.

20. The user information obtaining method according to claim 14, wherein the user information obtaining request further comprises:

geographical location information submitted by the mobile terminal; and

the method further comprises;

extracting the geographical location information contained in the user information obtaining request and calculating the distance between the mobile terminal and the matching user according to the geographical location information by the server; and

sending the distance between the mobile terminal and the matching user to the mobile terminal by the server.

21. The user information obtaining method according to claim 20, wherein obtaining the matching user who matches the user information obtaining request comprises:

obtaining a user whose distance is smaller than or equal to a first threshold as the matching user by the server.

22. A user information obtaining system, comprising a mobile terminal and a server, wherein the mobile terminal comprises:

a detection module, to detect a shaking operation of the mobile terminal;

a triggering module, in response to determining that the detection module detects the shaking operation, to send a user information obtaining request to a server; and

a receiving module, to receive user information of a matching user returned according to the user information obtaining request by the server;

and wherein the server comprises;

a receiving module, to receive a user information obtaining request triggered by a shaking operation of a mobile terminal;

a matching module, to obtain a user who matches the user information obtaining request; and

a sending module, to send user information of the matching user to the mobile terminal;

wherein the detection module is further to start to count time in response to determining that the shaking operation is detected, and in response to

determining that counted time is up to a specified length, determine whether the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time; and

the triggering module is to send the user information obtaining request to the server in response to determining that the shaking operation is continuously received during the counted time.