WO2012079387A1

WO2012079387A1 - Method for using short messages and apparatus

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Publication number: WO2012079387A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/078776
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张妍
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-12-16
Filing date: 2011-08-23
Publication date: 2012-06-21
Also published as: CN102572064A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for using short messages and apparatus. The method comprises: identifying a numeral amount in the content of a short message (S102); determining the type of the numeral amount (S104); and acquiring statistics of the amount of different types respectively (S106). The present invention solves the problem of the inconvenience for a user to check and get statistics of the dispersed records of consumption in short messages in prior art, thereby improving user experience.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for using a short message. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Currently, mobile communication plays an increasingly important role in personal information. Short messages (or short messages) in mobile terminals (for example, mobile phones) serve as a convenient way to transfer information to users. For example, the domestic and foreign credit card consumption information of UnionPay cards will be obtained by users through SMS. The user can use the credit card recorded in the short message, transfer the amount of consumption and consumption time information, or use the mobile phone to carry out mobile payment information to know their own expenses for the month. However, such consumption records tend to be scattered in short messages, making it inconvenient for users to view consumer information and to count consumption information. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for using a short message to solve the above problems. According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for using a short message is provided, the method comprising: identifying a digital amount in a short message content; determining a category of the digital amount; and separately counting amounts of different categories. Preferably, determining the category of the digital amount comprises: determining a meaning represented by a character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content to determine a category of the digital amount. Preferably, determining the category of the digital amount comprises: determining a type of the digital amount according to a format of the short message content, wherein a format of the short message content is pre-agreed. Preferably, identifying the digital amount in the short message content comprises: determining whether the short message is from a predetermined number, and if the determination result is yes, identifying the digital amount in the short message content. Preferably, separately counting the digital amounts of different categories comprises: counting the digital amounts of different categories of the preset time period according to the time when the short messages carrying the digital amount are received, so as to query the statistical results according to the preset time period. Preferably, the method further includes: identifying a currency type corresponding to the digital amount; and counting the digital amount of the same category according to different currency types. Preferably, the category of the digital amount includes at least one of the following: an amount of expenditure, an amount of income, and a refill amount. Preferably, identifying the digital amount in the short message content comprises: searching a digital sequence of the short message content, determining a searched digital sequence according to a preset rule, to identify a digital amount of the short message content . According to another aspect of the present invention, a device for using a short message is provided, comprising: an identification module configured to identify a digital amount in a short message content; a determining module configured to determine a category of the digital amount; a statistical module , set to count the amount of different categories separately. Preferably, the determining module is configured to determine, according to a matching rule, a meaning represented by a character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content to determine a category of the digital amount, or set to be short according to the short The format of the message content determines the category of the digital amount, wherein the format of the short message content is pre-agreed. Preferably, the identification module is further configured to identify a currency type corresponding to the digital amount; the statistical module is further configured to, in the case of identifying a currency type corresponding to the digital amount, a digital amount for the same category Statistics are performed according to different currency types. Preferably, the determining module is configured to extract a special character within the agreed range before the digital amount according to the matching rule, and determine a category of the digital amount according to the special character. Preferably, the statistics module is further configured to provide an interface to the application, wherein the interface is configured to enable the application to call the amount of statistics by the statistical module. The invention solves the problem that the consumption record in the prior art is relatively inconvenient for the user to view and count in the short message, thereby improving the user experience. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings, which are set to illustrate,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing a method of using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention; 3 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for processing consumption data information in a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 4 is a flowchart of digital sequence information processing in a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. In this embodiment, a method for using a short message is provided. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the process includes the following steps: Step S102, identifying a short The number related to the amount in the message content (hereinafter referred to as the digital amount for convenience of description); Step S104, judging the category of the digital amount, for example, it can be judged that the digital amount is the income amount, or the expenditure amount, or recharge The amount, of course, may also include a credit amount, an interest amount, and the like; and in step S106, statistics are performed on the amounts of the different categories. Through the above steps, the user divides the digital amount in the short message into different categories, and counts the amount of the different categories, so that the user can clearly understand the total amount of the different categories of the amount, thereby dividing the numbers dispersed in the plurality of short messages. The amount is summarized and the query can be provided for the summed amount, which improves the user experience. There are many methods for judging the category of the digital amount. For example, the matching rule can be flexibly set by the user within the agreed scope. After the matching rule is set, the user can set the special character before the withdrawal of the amount number, and the special character can be set to Chinese or English. For convenience of use, the mobile phone can preset a set of matching rules before leaving the factory. The matching rules can be directly selected or edited by the user. The following description will be made by way of example. For example, the meaning of the character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content can be determined to determine the category of the digital amount. The way of this judgment is completely performed on the receiving side, and the participation of the transmitting end is not required, so that no improvement is made to the sender. For example, you will usually receive the following message "Your credit card will consume 100RMB on XX XX day". At this time, you can extract the word "consumption" as the voucher for the amount of the payment. In addition, you can set it in advance. The content of the character to be searched: "consumption", "transfer", "take away", or the corresponding English field is considered as expenditure, so the more pre-set words of the same category, the more accurate the extraction, the more accurate, but to avoid The processing speed is affected. Generally, a matching rule is preset in the mobile phone, allowing the user to modify to a certain extent within the scope of the matching rule, and adding a pre-set rule but allowing the user to modify the processing manner, which can prevent the user from increasing too much. Vocabulary. In addition, the proximity here is not just a phase in the strict sense. Neighbor, it can be strictly adjacent, or it can be adjacent to a predetermined character. For example: "Your credit card consumes RMB 100 on XX XX," then you need to search for three Chinese characters at intervals. Therefore, The pre-set search method (how many characters can be searched by the search mode identifier here) can also affect the accuracy of the judgment. It can be seen that although this method does not require changes to the sender, this method is not very accurate. If you need accurate statistics, you can use the method in Example 2. For example, the format of the fixed short message content may be pre-arranged between the sender and the receiver, and then the type of the digital amount is determined according to the format of the short message content described above. For example, you can agree that "**" means income, "##" means expenditure, then, **123##456 means income is 123, and expenditure is 456. This method is more precise, but the sender needs to be modified, and the way of achieving the ratio is complicated. Through the above two examples, the category of the digital amount can be judged. In the same way, the currency type of the digital amount can be judged, for example, the dollar, the euro, the renminbi, and then counted according to different currencies. Of course, the judgment of the currency type is simpler than the judgment of the numerical amount category. In the implementation, if all the short messages are identified by the digital amount, the terminal will be given an additional processing burden. Therefore, one or more numbers can be set in advance, and then it is determined whether the short message is from a preset number. And if the judgment result is YES, the numerical amount in the content of the short message is identified. Preferably, different numbers can also be grouped, for example, the number from the information for transmitting the debit card and the number for transmitting the credit card information are divided into two groups, and then the contents of the two groups are separately counted. Preferably, the digital amount of different categories of the predetermined time period may also be counted according to the time when the short message carrying the digital amount is received. Of course, after the statistics are performed according to the predetermined time period, the function of querying the statistical results according to the predetermined time period can be provided, and the preferred embodiments can be more convenient for the user to use. Preferably, an interface may also be provided to some applications in the mobile phone, so that if there is preset financial management software in the mobile phone, the information of the above fields may be recorded into a specified field in the wealth management software by manual or synchronous manner. Reduces the cumbersome steps for users to use the accounting software to bill. Preferably, in implementation, a digital sequence of short message content may be searched by using a search rule, and then the searched digital sequence is determined according to a preset rule to identify the digital amount of the short message content. For example, the preset rule may include at least one of the following: a length of the sequence of numbers (eg, a length of the sequence of numbers greater than a threshold (eg, 8 bits), which is considered not a digital amount), a specific character before or after the sequence of numbers (eg, , if there is a $ before or after the sequence of digits, it is considered to be a numeric amount.) Whether a specific character is included in the sequence of numbers (for example, a comma is included in the sequence of numbers, it can be considered as a numerical amount). Of course, this is only an example and is not limited to these rules. In this embodiment, a device for using a short message is also provided, which is used to implement the above-mentioned embodiments and preferred embodiments thereof, and has not been described again, and the modules involved in the device are described below. Description. 2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for using a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the structure includes: an identification module 22, a determination module 24, and a statistics module 26. The structure will be described below. The identification module 22 is configured to identify the digital amount in the short message content; the determining module 24 is connected to the identification module 22 for determining the category of the digital amount; and the statistical module 26 is connected to the determining module 24 for separately performing the amount of the different categories. statistics. Preferably, the determining module 24 is configured to determine, according to the matching rule, a meaning represented by a character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content to determine a category of the digital amount, or to determine a type of the digital amount according to a format of the short message content, The format of the short message content is pre-agreed. Preferably, the identification module 22 is further configured to identify the currency type corresponding to the digital amount; the statistics module 26 is further configured to perform statistics on the digital amount of the same category according to different currency types in the case of identifying the currency type corresponding to the digital amount. For the judging module 24, the matching rule can be flexibly set by the user within the agreed range. After the matching rule is set, the user can set a special character before the withdrawal amount number, and the special character can be set to Chinese or English. For convenience of use, the mobile phone can preset a set of matching rules before leaving the factory. The matching rules can be directly selected or edited by the user. The statistics module 26 can provide an interface to some applications in the mobile phone, so that if there is preset financial management software in the mobile phone, the information of the above fields can be recorded into the designated fields in the wealth management software manually or synchronously. Reduces the cumbersome steps for users to use the accounting software to bill. The method and apparatus in the foregoing embodiments may be applied to a mobile terminal (for example, a mobile phone). The following is an example in which a mobile phone receives a short message. In this embodiment, the daily expenditure is recorded by using the mobile phone short message, and the personal consumption data in the short message of the specific number is extracted and counted, thereby generating monthly personal income and expenditure details. That is, after receiving the short message sent by the designated UnionPay number, the terminal searches for the digital sequence in the short message, and if the digital sequence is searched, identifies whether the digital sequence is the amount information, and if the digital sequence is the amount of consumption, then the number When the sequence is the amount of expenditure, it is counted as expenditure consumption information. When the number is listed as the income amount, it is counted as income information. Preferably, in implementation, the receiving time of the short message where the expenditure consumption information is located may be determined, and the amount of the expenditure is accumulated with the first spending amount of the current month. Among them, the monthly expenditure amount statistics table can be saved in the terminal. Of course, it is possible to distinguish between different currency categories, for example, when the amount in the short message is the amount of the spent RMB, the amount is added to the RMB expenditure item of the current month, and when the amount in the short message is the amount of the dollar spent, the amount is added. Under the dollar expenditure for the month. In this embodiment, the matching of the digital amount category is implemented by using a matching rule. For example, a matching rule is stored in the terminal, and after the terminal identifies the digital sequence as the consumption information, the matching rule is read and executed; When the amount is the expenditure amount, the matching rule judges that the expenditure amount is added to the corresponding currency of the expenditure amount according to the identification field of the digital sequence in the short message and the specific field in the message body. When the amount in the short message is the income amount, the matching rule judges that the income amount is added to the corresponding item of the income amount according to the identification field of the digital sequence in the short message and the specific field in the message body. 3 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for processing consumption data information in a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention. The solid line in the figure represents an instruction stream, and the dotted line in the figure represents a data stream. As shown in FIG. 3, the apparatus includes: filtering Module 302, search module 303, identification module 304, query module 306 and storage module 305. This is explained separately below. The filtering module 302 is configured to filter the short message. For example, only the specified special number entry can be allowed to pass, and the filtered output is transmitted to the search module. The search module 303 is configured to search the digital sequence in the short message after receiving the short message of the specific number, and send the digital sequence to the identification module 304 if the digital sequence is found in the short message. The identification module 304 is configured to identify the key field and the digital sequence related to the revenue and expenditure searched in the message entry. After the identification, the identified digital sequence may also be identified. For example, the color and the underline may be used to distinguish the income. Still spending, and allowing users to make choices. Then, put it in a different storage unit for easy statistics. Preferably, for the monetary value information, the judgment is the amount of consumption or the amount of the payment class. Preferably, the identification is RMB consumption or US dollar consumption or other local currency, and is saved to the corresponding field of the storage module 305 according to the storage rule. It should be noted that the search module implements the functions of the above-mentioned identification module 22, and the identification module implements the functions of the above-described determination module 24. The storage module 305 is configured to store search rules, identification rules, and operation rules, and receive the sequence of numbers and operation results found in the short message. For example, the storage module 305 is configured to save the monthly corresponding expenditure and income data and the accumulated data. The module implements the functions of the statistics module 26 described above. The storage module 305 receives the value amount sent by the identification module 304 and accumulates it in the income or expenditure amount of the same currency attribute of the current month. Preferably, the storage module 305 is further configured to save revenue and expenditure information in the previous monthly message of the user; preferably, if There are preset financial management software in the mobile phone. The information of these fields can be recorded to the specified fields in the wealth management software manually or synchronously. The query module 306 is configured to provide a query function. Through this embodiment, the existing network and short message service can be used to obtain monthly revenue and expenditure details, and statistical data is generated, which is convenient for the user to count the income and expenditure of the current month. 4 is a flowchart of digital sequence information processing in a short message according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the process includes the following steps: Step 401: After receiving a short message of a specific number, the terminal reads the memory from the memory. Take pre-configured search rules. It should be noted that the special short message number and the corresponding UnionPay account relationship table may be pre-stored for filtering the received short message; for example, the special number may be: 95555 China Merchants Bank, 95566 Bank of China, 95588 Industrial and Commercial Bank Step 402: The terminal runs a search rule to search for a sequence of numbers contained in the content of the short message; for example, the search rule may use any rule that may search for a sequence of numbers from the short message, and the sequence of digits may be an Arabic numeral or a combination of a plurality of Arabic numerals with special symbols, wherein the special symbols include only a decimal point or a comma; Step 403: The terminal marks the sequence of numbers identified as the amount of consumption; for example, the terminal may search for a message with a special number. Multiple digit sequences, the terminal only extracts the keywords, such as "RMB (including RMB)" and the number before "Yuan", and according to the "send", "account", "repayment" and "consumption""When the key field determines whether the amount is income or expenditure; Step 404: Terminal pair identification Extracting digital sequence; for example, the terminal identification number sequence of length symbols and numerals are requirements, such as a predetermined sequence of numbers between field contains symbols not meet the requirements, this number sequence is discarded, the re-recognition. In order to ensure the normal performance of the mobile phone, the number of identifications of each short message is required to be exceeded, and the short message is automatically discarded. Step 405: The terminal runs a matching rule, the matching rule is to identify the digital sequence, and according to the identified number The sequence gives a choice of income and expenditure; Step 406: storing and calculating the identified currency amount and storing the original currency amount according to the set storage location; Step 407: Save the recognized digital amount and the operation result in the storage module 305, so that the user can query the monthly income and expenditure situation. For example, the storage rules of the terminal have a number of digits and positive and negative constraints, such as a sequence of numbers that do not meet these conditions are not saved. In summary, the foregoing embodiment solves the problem that the consumption record in the prior art is relatively inconvenient for the short message to be viewed by the user, thereby improving the user experience. Obviously, those skilled in the art should understand that the above modules or steps of the present invention can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which can be concentrated on a single computing device or distributed over a network composed of multiple computing devices. Alternatively, they may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device so that they may be stored in the storage device by the computing device, or they may be separately fabricated into individual software or hardware modules, or they may be Multiple modules or steps are made into a single software or hardware module. Thus, the invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software. The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

1. A method of using short messages, including:

Identify the amount of the number in the short message content;

Determining the category of the digital amount;

Statistics are performed on the amounts of different categories.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the category of the digital amount comprises:

The meaning of the character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content is determined to determine the category of the digital amount.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the category of the digital amount comprises:

Determining the type of the digital amount according to the format of the short message content, wherein the format of the short message content is pre-agreed.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying the digital amount in the short message content comprises: determining whether the short message is from a predetermined number, and if the determination result is yes, identifying the short The amount of the number in the message content.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein separately counting statistics for different categories of digital amounts comprises:

According to the time when the short message carrying the digital amount is received, the numerical amount of different categories of the preset time period is counted, so as to query the statistical result by the preset time period.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising: identifying a currency type corresponding to the digital amount;

The amount of the same category is counted according to different currency types.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the category of the digital amount includes at least one of: an amount of expenditure, an amount of income, and a refill amount.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein identifying the digital amount in the short message content comprises: Searching the digital sequence of the short message content, and determining the searched digital sequence according to a preset rule to identify the digital amount of the short message content.

9. A device for using short messages, comprising:

An identification module, configured to identify a digital amount in the content of the short message;

a judging module, configured to determine a category of the digital amount;

The statistics module is set to count the amounts of different categories separately.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the determining module is configured to determine, according to a matching rule, a meaning represented by a character adjacent to the digital amount in the short message content to determine the digital amount The category, or, is configured to determine a category of the digital amount according to a format of the short message content, wherein a format of the short message content is pre-agreed.

The device according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the identification module is further configured to identify a currency type corresponding to the digital amount; the statistical module is further configured to identify the digital amount corresponding to In the case of a currency type, the amount of the same category is counted according to different currency types.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the determining module is configured to extract, according to the matching rule, a special character within a predetermined range before the digital amount, and determine the The category of the numeric amount.

13. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the statistics module is further configured to provide an interface to an application, wherein the interface is configured to cause the application to call an amount calculated by the statistical module.