Alibaba Group Holding Limited
User positioning method, information push method, and related apparatus

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for locating a client terminal are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining, by an audio signal playing terminal, identification information of an object associated with the audio signal playing terminal; watermarking, by the audio signal playing terminal, a to-be-played audio signal based on the identification information to obtain an audio signal having a watermark; and playing, by the audio signal playing terminal, the audio signal having the watermark for a client terminal to collect the audio signal having the watermark and send the audio signal having the watermark or the identification information to a server to enable the server to obtain the identification information and determine a position of the object based on a correspondence between the identification information and the position of the object and thereby to determine a position of the client terminal.