Address information input method, acquisition method, apparatus, device, and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10162810-B2
Application number	US-201414491417-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2013
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

Methods and devices are provided for inputting address information in the field of network technologies. The method includes: sending an address acquisition request to a server when an address needs to be input in a target page; receiving address information sent by the server, where the server receives the address acquisition request, acquires a geographical position of a terminal according to the address acquisition request, and determines the address information corresponding to the geographical position according to an address database; and inputting automatically the address information in an address input area of the target page.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for inputting address information, comprising:
receiving, on a terminal having a processor, a request to display a target page associated with a target page identifier;
determining, in response to receipt of the request to display the target page, that the target page includes an address input area by determining the target page identifier is included in a plurality of previously stored target page identifiers for respective target pages that include corresponding address input areas;
automatically sending an address acquisition request to a server in response to identification of the target page identifier in the plurality of previously stored target page identifiers;
receiving address information sent by the server, the address information including an address corresponding to a geographical position of the terminal; and
inputting automatically the address information in an address input area of the target page.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein before sending the address acquisition request to the server, the method comprises:
acquiring the geographical position of the terminal in a preset positioning manner; and
wherein sending the address acquisition request to the server comprises: sending the address acquisition request comprising the geographical position to the server to cause the server to read the geographical position in the address acquisition request and respond with the address information.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending the address acquisition request to the server comprises:
sending a trigger request to acquire the address information from the server, wherein the trigger request comprises an instruction to trigger the server to position the terminal and acquire the geographical position of the terminal.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein after inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page, the method further comprises:
receiving a modification operation for modifying the address information; and modifying the address information according to the modification operation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the address information comprises a plurality of addresses corresponding to the geographical position of the terminal, wherein before inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page, the method comprises:
receiving a selection signal corresponding to one of the addresses; and
selecting the one of the addresses in response to the selection signal, wherein inputting automatically the address information in the address input area of the target page comprises: inputting automatically the one of the addresses in the address input area of the target page.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending a query request to the server, wherein the query request comprises an instruction to query a personal database corresponding to a user account used by the terminal for target address information historically used by the user account, and an instruction to provide the target address information to the terminal; and
receiving the target address information from the server.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the target page comprises a first target page, the method further comprising:
setting, in response to receipt of the address information from the server, the address information as default address information associated with a user account corresponding to the terminal; and
inputting the default address information into an address input area of a second target page in response to a subsequent jump to the second target page.

8. A method for acquiring address information, comprising: receiving an address acquisition request sent by a terminal, wherein the address acquisition request comprises a request to input an address in a target page; acquiring a geographical position of the terminal according to the address acquisition request; determining address information corresponding to the geographical position according to an address database; and sending the determined address information to the terminal, wherein the address information is automatically input in an address input area of the target page by the terminal, wherein determining address information corresponding to the geographical position according to the address database comprises:
selecting at least one piece of address information from the address database, wherein a distance between a position corresponding to each piece of address information in the at least one piece of address information and the geographical position is smaller than a preset threshold value; calculating a score of each selected piece of address information according to a predetermined score item, wherein the predetermined score item comprises at least one of the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position, the number of times that the address information is historically used, the type of the address information, and an information perfection degree of the address information, and the type of the address information is a school, company, hospital, residence, park or mall; and using address information of n highest scores as the address information corresponding to the geographical position, wherein n is a positive integer,
wherein calculating a score of each selected piece of address information according to the predetermined score item comprises: if the predetermined score item comprises the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position, calculating, according to the latitude and longitude of each piece of address information, the distance between the position corresponding to each piece of address information and the geographical position, querying for a first score corresponding to the calculated distance according to a first association relationship, wherein the first association relationship is a negative correlation relationship between the first score and the distance between the position corresponding to the address information and the geographical position; if the predetermined score item comprises the number of times that the address information is historically used, calculating the number of times that each piece of address information is historically used, and querying for a second score corresponding to the calculated number of times of historical use according to a second association relationship, wherein the second association relationship is a positive correlation relationship between the number of times that the address information is historically used and the second score; if the predetermined score item comprises the type of the address information, querying for a third score corresponding to the type of each piece of address information according to a third association relationship, wherein the third association relationship is a relationship between the type of the address information and the third score; if the predetermined score item comprises an information perfection degree of the address information, calculating an information perfection degree of each piece of address information, querying for a fourth score corresponding to the calculated information perfection degree according to a fourth association relationship, wherein the fourth association relationship is a positive correlation relationship between the information perfection degree of the address information and the fourth score; and calculating the score of each piece of address information according to the score of each predetermined score item and a weight corresponding to each predetermined score item.

9. An apparatus comprising a processor and

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ye Wa
• Xu Zhenyu

Classifications

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• G06F40/174 Primary

  Form filling; Merging · CPC title

• H04W4/30

  Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes · CPC title