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Mobile Terminal Position Storage Method And Device
[1] [Technical Field]
[2] The present invention relates to the field of data management
technologies, and in
particular, to a method and a device for storing a location of a mobile
terminal.
[3] [Background Technology]
[4] With the 2G / 3G and even the 4G era is coming, as well as the
widespread of WiFi
hotspot, it marks the advent of the era of big data today. All the user's
daily behaviour can
theoretically achieve processing a variety of data by means of the network
constructed by
mobile data network provided by major operators, wireless local area networks
such as
WiFi and Internet technology. Therefore, the network environment has
advantages over the
offline real world in terms of user-friendliness. In such an environment, e-
commerce has
become increasingly widely used in a variety of commercial trade activities,
the so-called
e-commerce is a business operation model that based on the browser and server
applications helps consumer realize online shopping, online transactions
between
merchants and online electronic payments, as well as a variety of business
activities,
trading activities, financial activities and related integrated service
activities in the Internet
open network environment.
[5] Many mobile terminals, for an example, cell phones, have receiving
devices that can
receive wireless signals transmitted by satellites and, based on global
positioning system
(GPS) measurements, can estimate the location of mobile terminals that have
such
receiving devices installed. The position estimation technique using this
receiving device is
a common basic technique that is important in various fields such as
navigation, security,
entertainment and the like. However, location estimation techniques based on
GPS
measurements require a long time of synchronization when activated, and since
servers,
such as server platforms that manage multiple mobile terminals, store latitude
and
longitude information of the mobile terminal, for the case of managing a large
number of
mobile users under the server requires massive storage space.
[6] [Summary of the Invention]
[7] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to
provide a method and a
device for storing a location of a mobile terminal, which can effectively
reduce the storage
space required for storing the location information of the mobile terminal.
[8] In order to solve the above technical problem, another technical
solution adopted by the
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present invention is to provide a method for storing a location of a mobile
terminal, where
the method includes: acquiring location information of the mobile terminal
sent by the
mobile terminal; wherein the location area of the mobile terminal is located;
according to a
pre-set rule, wherein an area is divided to obtain a plurality of the location
areas; the
location information of the mobile terminal and the determined location area
are save
correspondingly.
[9] In order to solve the above technical problem, another technical
solution adopted by the
present invention is to provide a location storage device for a mobile
terminal, where the
device includes: an acquisition module, configured to acquire a location of
the mobile
terminal sent by the mobile terminal; a positioning module, configured to
determine,
according to the location information of the mobile terminal acquired by the
acquisition
module, a positioning area where the mobile terminal is located; wherein the
positioning
module is configured to divide an area in advance according to a pre-set rule
to obtain
more positioning areas; and a saving module, configured to save the mobile
terminal
correspondingly to the positioning area determined by the positioning module.
[10] Different from the prior technology, the present invention provides a
method and device for
storing location of a mobile terminal. After acquiring the location
information of the
mobile terminal, the server divides an area into a plurality of location areas
in advance, and
according to the location of the mobile terminal Information to determine a
corresponding
positioning area, thereby implementing positioning and location information
saving for the
mobile terminal. With the method taught by the examples of the present
invention, the
storage space required for storing the location information of the mobile
terminal can be
reduced.
[11] [Brief Description]
[12] Figure 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for storing a location
of a mobile terminal
according to one example of the present invention;
[13] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of obtaining a plurality of
positioning areas by dividing an
area according to an example of the present invention;
[14] Figure 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a location storage
device of a mobile terminal
according to an example of the present invention.
[15] [Description of the Preferred Examples]
[16] The present invention will be described in detail below with reference
to the accompanying
drawings and examples.
[17] Referring to Figure 1, it is a schematic flowchart of a method for
storing a location of a
mobile terminal according to the present invention. The method flow shown in
this
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example includes:
[18] Step S10, acquire location information of the mobile terminal sent by
the mobile terminal.
[19] Wherein, the location information of the mobile terminal is obtained
by the mobile
terminal.
[20] Further, the location information of the mobile terminal obtained by
the server is obtained
by the mobile terminal based on the global positioning system. Of course, the
mobile
terminal can also obtain its own location information according to other
positioning
methods, for example, positioning by using a communication base station.
[21] In step S10, the server acquires the location information of the
mobile terminal in real time
and updates the saved location area corresponding to the mobile terminal
according to the
current location information. In this example, the server is an e-commerce
transaction
platform, and the mobile terminal is a corresponding client.
[22] Further, when obtaining the location information of the mobile
terminal, the service may
further update the location information of the mobile terminal: detecting
whether the
location area corresponding to the mobile terminal has been saved, and when it
is
determined that the location of the mobile terminal has been saved, determine
the
corresponding positioning area according to the currently received position
information; if
the determined positioning area is different from the previously stored
positioning area,
modify the positioning area of the mobile terminal to be the current
positioning area
accordingly, so as to realize the position of the mobile terminal Information
update.
[23] Similarly, when the server determines and saves the location area of
the mobile terminal,
the mobile terminal information (for an example, a name) may also be deleted
from the
location area according to the corresponding instruction so as to delete the
location
information of the mobile terminal.
[24] Step S11, determine a positioning area where the mobile terminal is
located according to
the acquired location information of the mobile terminal.
[25] Wherein, the server divides an area according to a pre-set rule to
obtain multiple
positioning areas.
[26] In an example, according to latitude and longitude, the server divides
an area to obtain a
plurality of positioning areas.
[27] Further, the area of each positioning area is the same.
[28] In another example, the server divides a region evenly to obtain a
plurality of positioning
regions.
[29] In another example, the positioning area is obtained by the server
dividing the area
according to the acquired number of the mobile terminals.
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[30] The area is an area within a predetermined range that is determined by
the server according
to the acquired location information of the mobile terminal.
[31] Step S12, save the mobile terminal corresponding to the determined
positioning area.
[32] In step S12, the server divides an area into a plurality of
positioning areas, and each of
which has corresponding position information. When the location information of
the
mobile terminal is received, the location of the mobile terminal is stored in
the
corresponding location area, so as to determine the location of the mobile
terminal in this
area.
[33] Please also refer to Figure 2, which is a schematic diagram of
dividing a region for a server
to obtain multiple positioning regions. For example, the server averages this
area into 6x5
grids, with each grid corresponding to a targeting area. When the location
information of
the mobile terminal is received, the corresponding grid is determined
according to the
location information of the mobile terminal and is located in the grid, and
the mobile
terminal and the positioning area represented by the grid are saved at the
same time to
complete the location of the mobile terminal storage.
[34] In the above solution, after obtaining the location information of the
mobile terminal, the
server divides an area into a plurality of location areas in advance, and
determines the
corresponding location area according to the location information of the
mobile terminal so
as to implement the location and location information of the mobile terminal
save. With the
present invention, the storage space required for the server to save the
location information
of the mobile terminal can be reduced.
[35] Referring to Figure 3, it is a schematic structural diagram of a
location storage device for a
mobile terminal according to an example of the present invention. The device
30 shown in
this example includes an acquisition module 31, a positioning module 32, and a
saving
module 33. In this example, the device 30 is a server running an e-commerce
transaction
platform. The mobile terminal is a corresponding client, and it may be an
electronic device
such as a smart phone or a tablet computer.
[36] The acquisition module 31 is configured to obtain the location
information of the mobile
terminal sent by the mobile terminal.
[37] Further, the location information of the mobile terminal acquired by
the acquisition module
31 is obtained by the mobile terminal based on the global positioning system.
Of course,
the mobile terminal can also obtain its own location information according to
other
positioning methods, for example, positioning by using a communication base
station.
[38] Further, the acquisition module 31 acquires the location information
of the mobile terminal
in real time, so that the positioning module 32 updates the saved location
area
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corresponding to the mobile terminal according to the current location
information.
[39] The positioning module 32 is configured to determine, according to the
location
information of the mobile terminal acquired by the acquisition module 31, a
positioning
area where the mobile terminal is located. The positioning module 32 divides
an area
according to a pre-set rule in advance to obtain a plurality of positioning
areas.
[40] In an example, the positioning module 32 divides an area according to
latitude and
longitude to obtain a plurality of positioning areas. Further, the area of
each positioning
area is the same.
[41] In another example, the positioning module 32 evenly divides a region
to obtain a plurality
of positioning regions.
[42] In another example, the positioning area is obtained by the server
dividing the area
according to the acquired number of the mobile terminals.
[43] The area is an area within a predetermined range that is determined by
the positioning
module 32 according to the acquired location information of the mobile
terminal.
[44] The saving module 33 saves the mobile terminal correspondingly to the
positioning area
determined by the positioning module.
[45] In the above solution, the positioning module 32 previously divides an
area into a plurality
of positioning areas, each of which has corresponding position information.
When the
acquisition module 31 receives the location information of the mobile
terminal, the
positioning module 32 stores the location of the mobile terminal in the
corresponding
location area, so as to determine the location of the mobile terminal in this
area.
[46] In the above solution, after the acquisition module acquires the
location information of the
mobile terminal, the positioning module previously divides an area into a
plurality of
positioning areas and determines the corresponding positioning area according
to the
location information of the mobile terminal so as to implement the positioning
of the
mobile terminal and location information saved. With the present invention,
the storage
space required for the server to save the location information of the mobile
terminal can be
reduced.
[47] In the above examples, the present invention has been exemplary
described only, but
various modifications to the present invention can be made by those skilled in
the area after
reading this patent application without departing from the spirit and scope of
the present
invention.
