CN103905972B - A kind of localization method, apparatus and system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of localization method, apparatus and system, wherein this method includes：Receiving terminal includes the positioning request information of the termination number by what WAP gateway was sent；The positional information of the terminal is obtained according to the positioning request information；The positional information of the terminal is pushed into the terminal.Using this method, enable to user that positioning service can be used using mobile phone WAP browser, reduce exploitation complexity, improve the security of positioning service.

Description

A positioning method, device and system

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of data services, in particular to a positioning method, device and system.

Background technique

With the popularity of mobile terminals, WAP services, as Internet application services provided to mobile terminal users, are also playing an increasingly important role in mobile services. Location service is one of the main development directions of mobile communication in the future, especially the location service on WAP has been widely concerned, and location service is the main service form of location service, mainly through location service platform and location service platform (LSP, Location Service Platform) to carry out. The location service platform is responsible for accepting and authenticating the positioning request of the service, and the LSP platform is responsible for locating the current location of the user according to the mobile phone number. The positioning result includes latitude and longitude, city code and detailed address description.

The implementation technical scheme of the positioning process of the existing location-based business is as follows: the mobile phone initiates a service request to the SP service server; the service server processes the service request, and initiates a positioning request to the location service platform through the positioning module on the server side; the location service platform processes the request and forwards the request to the location service platform. To the LSP, the LSP obtains the user's latitude and longitude information and returns it to the mobile positioning gateway; the location service platform returns the latitude and longitude information to the SP service server; the service server performs further business processing on the obtained latitude and longitude information, and then returns the final result to the mobile phone terminal.

The defective of prior art is:

1. After receiving the positioning request from the mobile phone user, the service server needs to send the location request according to the Gv interface specification of the mobile location service platform, which makes the development of the access service more difficult and takes a longer period, which increases the development cost and technology of the service threshold;

2. In order to ensure the privacy and security of users, a series of privacy control measures need to be adopted, resulting in overly complex business logic and poor user perception, which affects the promotion of mobile location services;

3. The business server can easily obtain the user's mobile phone number, location information and time by querying the system log. This triple information group poses risks to the user's privacy and security;

4) For subscribed users, there is a privacy security risk that the business impersonates the user's identity to obtain their location information.

Contents of the invention

In order to solve the technical problems of high access threshold, complex business logic, and privacy security risks in the prior art, the present invention proposes a positioning method, device and system, so that users can use the positioning service by using a mobile phone WAP browser.

One aspect of the present invention provides a positioning method, comprising the following steps: receiving the positioning request information including the terminal number sent by the terminal through the WAP gateway; obtaining the location information of the terminal according to the positioning request information; The location information of the terminal is pushed to the terminal.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a positioning device, including a receiving module, a positioning module and a push module, wherein the receiving module is used to receive the positioning request information including the terminal number sent by the terminal through the WAP gateway; The positioning module is configured to obtain the location information of the terminal according to the location request information; the pushing module is configured to push the location information of the terminal to the terminal.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a positioning system, including: a terminal, a WAP gateway, a service platform, a location service platform, an LSP, and a GIS, wherein the terminal is used to send a positioning request to the location service platform through the WAP gateway, Initiate a service request to the service platform through the redirection URL address, and receive the service processing result completed by the service platform through the location information; the WAP gateway is used to start the transparent transmission mechanism according to the setting and send the number of the terminal to the location service platform and the positioning request; the location service platform is used to initiate a positioning request to the LSP according to the number of the terminal to obtain the location information of the terminal, and to initiate an address request to the GIS platform according to the location information of the terminal to obtain the location information of the terminal. address information of the terminal, and push the location information and address information of the terminal and the redirection URL to the terminal; the service platform is used to complete the service request according to the redirection URL, and send the obtained service The processing result is pushed to the terminal; the LSP is used to receive the positioning request sent by the location service platform, obtain terminal location information according to the terminal number in the location request, and return the location information to the location service platform ; The GIS is used to convert the location information sent by the location service platform into an address description and return it to the location service platform.

In the positioning method, system and device of the present invention, the positioning interface adopts a relatively simple HTTP GET protocol, which does not require the business system to use a complicated interface to report a positioning request, which simplifies the development of the business; the user directly interacts with the location service platform through the mobile phone, and the location service The platform automatically obtains the mobile phone number of the positioning user through the WAP gateway, which does not need to be actively reported by the business, which can effectively ensure the authenticity of the positioning initiation; the location service platform redirects the positioning result to the business platform through the WAP browser of the user's mobile phone, and the result does not include the user's mobile phone number. Mobile phone number information can effectively prevent users from leaking their privacy.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the flow chart of the embodiment of positioning method of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a preferred embodiment of the positioning method of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of the positioning device of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the positioning system of the present invention.

detailed description

As shown in Figure 1, it is a flow chart of a positioning method embodiment of the present invention, including the following steps:

Step 101, receiving the positioning request information including the terminal number sent by the terminal through the WAP gateway;

Step 102, acquiring the location information of the terminal according to the location request information;

Step 103. Push the location information of the terminal to the terminal.

This embodiment can directly send the positioning request sent by the terminal to the location service platform through the WAP gateway, and the location service platform obtains the terminal location information through the location service platform according to the request information, and then returns it to the mobile terminal. In this way, there is no need to send a positioning request through the service platform, the process is simpler, it is easy to develop applications, and it can also protect user privacy.

As shown in Figure 2, it is a flowchart of a preferred embodiment of a positioning method of the present invention, including the following steps:

Step 201, the WAP gateway forwards the positioning request of the terminal;

Step 202, the WAP gateway starts the transparent transmission mechanism according to the setting and sends the number of the terminal to the location service platform;

The transparent transmission mechanism is an existing mechanism of the wap gateway. Specifically, when the user's mobile phone accesses the server address through http get, the wap gateway captures the winning user's mobile phone number during the forwarding process and attaches it to the get request.

The server address needs to be added to the wap gateway whitelist in advance.

Step 203, the location service platform authenticates the WAP gateway;

Step 204, if the WAP gateway passes the authentication, then receive the terminal number and location request information;

Step 205, the location service platform initiates a positioning request to the LSP platform according to the number of the terminal, and obtains the location information of the terminal;

LSP (Location Service Platform) locates the current location of the terminal according to its number. The location result includes latitude and longitude, city code and detailed address description.

Step 206: Initiate an address request to the GIS platform according to the location information of the terminal to obtain the address information of the terminal.

GIS (Geographic Information System or Geo-Information system, GIS) geographic information system converts the longitude and latitude information sent by the location service platform into detailed address descriptions.

Step 207. Push the redirection URL including the location information and address information of the terminal to the terminal.

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL, an abbreviation for Uniform/Universal Resource Locator in English), also known as a webpage address, is a standard resource address (Address) on the Internet. The URL contains the positioning result information of the mobile phone user, including latitude and longitude, location description, area code information, etc., and the URL is the positioning result including the redirection instruction.

The detailed process of completing a positioning service by the positioning method of the present invention is illustrated below with a specific example:

Step 1. The user accesses the service system call page through the mobile phone.

Step 2, the service system returns the WAP page required by the user to the user's mobile phone;

Step 3, the user clicks on the "location" connection on the WAP page (the service system will add some parameters such as user ID and calling ability identification on the link), and the connection will transfer the request to the location service platform through the WAP gateway;

Step 4, the location service platform performs CELL-ID positioning according to the mobile phone number provided by the WAP gateway white list, and obtains the user's latitude and longitude;

Step 5, the location service platform pushes the latitude and longitude information of the user to the terminal, and according to the redirection mechanism, the location service platform pushes the redirection URL and the latitude and longitude information to the terminal;

Step 6, the terminal HTTP layer automatically initiates a request to the redirection URL (i.e., the service platform) in the response, and forwards the user's location information to the service system in the request;

Step 7. The business system completes the business logic through the latitude and longitude, such as querying the surrounding merchants with the latitude and longitude;

Step 8. The response page finally displayed to the end user is pushed to the end user by the business system.

As shown in FIG. 3 , it is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a positioning device according to the present invention. The positioning device is set in a location service platform and includes a receiving module 301, a positioning module 302 and a pushing module 303, wherein the receiving module uses The positioning request information including the terminal number sent by the receiving terminal through the WAP gateway; the positioning module is used to obtain the location information of the terminal according to the positioning request information; the push module is used to send the terminal The location information of is pushed to the terminal.

Preferably, an authentication module 304 is also included, configured to authenticate the WAP gateway. The positioning module is used to initiate a positioning request to the LSP platform according to the number of the terminal to obtain the location information of the terminal; to initiate an address request to the GIS platform according to the location information of the terminal to obtain the address information of the terminal. The push module is configured to push the redirection URL including the location information and address information of the terminal to the terminal.

As shown in Figure 4, it is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a positioning system of the present invention, including a terminal 401, a WAP gateway 402, a location service platform 403, an LSP404 and a GIS405, wherein,

The terminal is configured to send a positioning request to the location service platform through the WAP gateway, initiate a service request to the service platform through the redirection URL address, and receive a service processing result completed by the service platform through the location information;

The WAP gateway is used to start a transparent transmission mechanism according to the setting and send the number of the terminal and the positioning request to the location service platform;

The location service platform is configured to initiate a positioning request to the LSP according to the number of the terminal to obtain the location information of the terminal, and initiate an address request to the GIS platform according to the location information of the terminal to obtain the address information of the terminal, Pushing a redirection URL containing the location information and address information of the terminal to the terminal;

The LSP is configured to receive a location request sent by a location service platform, obtain terminal location information according to a terminal number in the location request, and return the location information to the location service platform;

The GIS is used to convert the location information sent by the location service platform into an address description and return it to the location service platform.

Preferably, the system further includes a business platform, configured to complete the service request according to the redirection URL, and push the obtained business processing result to the terminal; the terminal is configured to pass The redirection URL address initiates a service request to the service platform, and receives a service processing result completed by the service platform through location information.

On the basis of the existing system architecture, this system mainly adds the transparent transmission mechanism of the WAP gateway, and adds a positioning device to the location service platform, including a receiving module, a positioning module, a push module and an authentication module. The WAP gateway transparent transmission mechanism is mainly to add the address of the location service platform to the white list of the mobile WAP gateway, so that each time the user accesses the location service platform, the WAP gateway can transparently transmit the user's mobile phone number to the base platform. The WAP positioning module implements the WAP positioning module in the location service platform, which can capture the mobile phone number transparently transmitted by the mobile WAP gateway and convert the mobile phone number into location information by calling LSP and GIS. The WAP gateway authentication function is added to the authentication module of the location service platform. The location service platform only trusts the positioning request sent by the mobile WAP gateway. It is very safe for the platform to provide location mobile phone numbers. This method not only ensures the authenticity and reliability of the user's identity, but also ensures that the location request must be the user's own location.

It should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention without limitation, and the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned examples, and all technical solutions and improvements thereof that do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be included in the present invention. within the scope of the claims.

Claims (7)

1. a kind of localization method, comprises the following steps：

Receiving terminal includes the positioning request information of the termination number by what WAP gateway was sent；

The positional information of the terminal is obtained according to the positioning request information；

The positional information of the terminal is pushed into the terminal；

The step of obtaining the positional information of the terminal according to the positioning request information includes：

Location Request is initiated to LSP platforms according to the number of the terminal, the positional information of the terminal is obtained；

Address requests are initiated to GIS platform according to the positional information of the terminal, the address information of the terminal is obtained；

Also include step before the positioning request information that the receiving terminal is sent by WAP gateway：

The WAP gateway is authenticated.

2. according to the method described in claim 1, it is characterised in that what the WAP gateway was sent includes the termination number Positioning request information includes：

The WAP gateway starts the number of the transparent transmission mechanism transmission terminal according to setting.

3. according to the method described in claim 1, it is characterised in that the positional information of the terminal is pushed into the terminal Step includes：

The Redirect URL of positional information comprising the terminal and address information is pushed into the terminal.

4. method according to claim 3, it is characterised in that push the positional information of the terminal and Redirect URL Also include after to the terminal：

Terminal initiates service request by the Redirect URL to business platform；

Terminal receives the service processing result that operation system is completed by the Redirect URL.

5. a kind of positioner, including receiving module, locating module and pushing module, wherein,

The receiving module, includes the positioning request information of the termination number for receiving terminal by what WAP gateway was sent；

The locating module, the positional information for obtaining the terminal according to the positioning request information；

The pushing module, for the positional information of the terminal to be pushed into the terminal；

The locating module is used for,

Location Request is initiated to LSP platforms according to the number of the terminal, the positional information of the terminal is obtained；

Address requests are initiated to GIS platform according to the positional information of the terminal, the address information of the terminal is obtained；

Also include authentication module, for being authenticated to the WAP gateway.

6. device according to claim 5, it is characterised in that the pushing module is used for,

The Redirect URL of positional information comprising the terminal and address information is pushed into the terminal.

7. a kind of alignment system, including terminal, WAP gateway, business platform, Location Service Platform, LSP and GIS, wherein,

The terminal, for sending Location Request to Location Service Platform by WAP gateway；

The WAP gateway, for according to number and the institute for setting startup transparent transmission mechanism to send the terminal to Location Service Platform State Location Request；

The Location Service Platform, initiates Location Request to LSP for the number according to the terminal, obtains the position of the terminal Confidence ceases, and initiates Address requests to GIS platform according to the positional information of the terminal, obtains the address information of the terminal, will The Redirect URL of positional information and address information comprising the terminal pushes to the terminal；

The LSP, the Location Request sent for receiving position service platform, the termination number in the Location Request is obtained Terminal positional information is taken, and the positional information is returned into the Location Service Platform；

The GIS, the positional information for Location Service Platform to be sent is converted to address descriptor and returns to the position clothes Business platform；

Also include business platform,

The business platform, for completing the service request according to the Redirect URL, and by obtained service processing result Push to the terminal；

The terminal, for initiating service request to business platform by the Redirect URL address, and receives business platform The service processing result completed by positional information.