Search Engine System And Information Searching Method

• US 20120203690A1
• Filed: 04/10/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: YANG, Haisong, SUN, Liang
• Application Number:
  US13/442,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20120203690A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A search engine system includes a search module, an entrance for data submission by data providers, a resource library, and a payment module. The search module is configured to receive an information search request, search for corresponding data information from the resource library, send a payment request to the payment module after receiving a request for viewing the data information, and display or output the data information after receiving an indication of successful payment. The entrance for data submission by data providers is configured to the specialized data providers to submit data information to the resource library. The payment module is configured to receive the payment request, check corresponding account according to account information carrying in the payment request and deduct fees corresponding to the data information from the account, and send the indication of successful payment to the search module after the deduction is successful.

Claims

1. A search engine system comprising:

a search module, an entrance for data submission by data providers, a resource library and a payment module;

wherein the search module is configured to receive an information search request, search for corresponding data information from the resource library according to the information search request, send a payment request to the payment module after receiving a request for viewing the data information, and display or output the data information which is requested to view after receiving an indication of successful payment sent from the payment module;

the entrance for data submission by data providers, which is connected with the resource library, is configured to the specialized data providers to submit data information to the resource library;

the resource library is configured to receive and store data information submitted by the specialized data providers;

the payment module is configured to receive the payment request sent from the search module, check corresponding account according to account information carrying in the payment request and deduct fee corresponding to the data information which is requested to view from the account, and send the indication of successful payment to the search module after the deduction is successful.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an entrance for data submission by individual users, which is connected with the resource library and configured to the individual users to submit data information to the resource library;

wherein the resource library is configured to receive and store the data information submitted by the individual users.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the resource library comprises a payment-requiring resource library and a free-of-charge resource library;

the search module comprises a foreground module, a ranking module, a payment-requiring resource search module and a free-of-charge resource search module;

wherein the payment-requiring resource library is configured to receive and store payment-requiring data information submitted by the individual users or the specialized data providers;

the free-of-charge resource library is configured to receive and store free-of-charge data information submitted by the individual users or the specialized data providers;

the foreground module is configured to receive the information search request, send a search command to the payment-requiring resource search module or the free-of-charge resource search module according to the information search request, send a ranking command to the ranking module, receive data information sent from the ranking module, display summary of the data information, send a payment request to the payment module after receiving a request to view the payment-requiring data, and display or output the data information or link to the data information which is requested to view after receiving the indication of successful payment sent from the payment module;

the ranking module is configured to receive data information sent from the payment-requiring resource search module and/or the free-of-charge resource search module, rank the received data information according to the ranking command sent from the foreground module, and send the ranked data information to the foreground module;

the payment-requiring resource search module is configured to search for corresponding payment-requiring data information from the payment-requiring resource library after receiving the search command sent from the foreground module and send the searched corresponding payment-requiring data information to the ranking module;

the free-of-charge resource search module is configured to search for corresponding free-of-charge data information from the free-of-charge resource library after receiving the search command sent from the foreground module and send the searched corresponding free-of-charge data information to the ranking module.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the payment module comprises a first negotiation module, a fee management module and a settlement module;

the resource library further comprises a second negotiation module;

wherein the first negotiation module is configured to receive a revenue-sharing agreement sent from the second negotiation module and send an acknowledgement indication to the second negotiation module;

the second negotiation module is configured to negotiate the revenue-sharing agreement with the individual users or the data providers via the entrance for data submission by the individual users or data providers, send the revenue-sharing agreement to the first negotiation module after receiving a trigger indicating approvement of the revenue-sharing agreement, and display or output an acknowledgement information via the entrance for data submission by the individual users or data providers after receiving the acknowledgement indication sent from the first negotiation module;

after receiving the payment request from the search module, the fee management module checks whether balance of the account corresponding to the payment request is greater than amount of the fee, deducts the fee from the account if the balance is enough to cover the fee and then sends the indication of successful payment to the search module;

the settlement module, which is connected with the first negotiation module and the fee management module, is configured to obtain information on the fees deducted by the fee management module, the data information for which the fees are paid, information of the individual users or data providers who submit the data resource corresponding to the data information and the revenue-sharing agreement stored by the first negotiation module, and settle revenues for the accounts corresponding to information of the individual user or the data provider according to the revenue-sharing agreement as well as the amounts of the fees concerned.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the payment module further comprises a payment record module;

wherein the fee management module receives the payment request sent from the search module;

according to the account information carrying in the payment request, the fee management module inquires about successively paid data resource information recorded in the payment record module, if it is determined that corresponding account does not pay for the data information which is requested to view, deducts the fee corresponding to the data information which is requested to view, and sends the indication of successful payment to the search module after the corresponding account has paid for the data information which is requested to view;

the payment record module is configured to record the successively paid data resource information by the fee management module as well as the corresponding account information.

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein the resource library is configured to receive and checks validity of data information submitted by the individual users or specialized data providers, and store the data information after the validity check is successful.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the data information includes textual data, audio and/or video data containing descriptive information or valid links directing to the textual data or audio and/or video data.

8. The system according to claim 3, wherein the ranking module acquires weights assigned in advance for the relevance between payment-requiring resources and the information search request, and the numbers of clicks on the payment-requiring resources and comments, then weights the payment-requiring resources according to the weights, the actual relevance between the payment-requiring and the information search request, and the actual numbers of clicks on the payment-requiring resources and comments, and ranks the payment-requiring resources based on the weighted results.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the ranking module further comprises a module configured to judge whether the actual relevance between the payment-requiring resources and the information search request is greater than a predetermined value, and ranking the payment-requiring resources only when the actual relevance between the payment-requiring resources and the information search request is greater is greater than the predetermined value.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the ranking module ranks payment-requiring resources, which are ranked before a pre-determined position of all the payment-requiring resources, before all the free of charge resource.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein the ranking module ranks payment-requiring resources, which are ranked before a pre-determined position of all the payment-requiring resources, before all the free of charge resource.

12. An information searching method comprises:

establishing a first entrance for data providers to submit data information;

receiving and storing the data information submitted by the data providers via the first entrance;

receiving an information search request, searching for corresponding information from the stored data information according to the information search request, receiving a request to view the information, and displaying or outputting the information which is requested to view after payment has been made for the information.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

establishing a second entrance for individual users to submit data information;

receiving and storing the data information submitted by the individual users via the second entrance.

14. A search engine system comprising:

a resource library configured to receive and store data information;

an entrance for data submission connected with the resource library and configured to a supplier to submit data information to the resource library;

two negotiation modules, wherein one of the two negotiation modules is configured to negotiate a revenue-sharing agreement with the supplier via the entrance for data submission and send the revenue-sharing agreement to the other one of the two negotiation modules after receiving a trigger indicating approvement of the revenue-sharing agreement;

the other one of the two negotiation modules is configured to receive and store the revenue-sharing agreement sent from the one of the two negotiation modules and send an acknowledgement indication to the one of the two negotiation modules;

the one of the two negotiation modules is further configured to display or output the acknowledgement information via the entrance for data submission after receiving the acknowledgement indication sent from the other one of the two negotiation modules;

a fee management module configured to receive a payment request carrying account information, deduct fee from corresponding account according to the account information if balance of the corresponding account is enough after receiving the payment request and send an indication whether payment is successful;

a search module configured to receive an information search request, search for corresponding data information from the resource library according to the information search request, send the payment request to the fee management module after receiving a request for viewing the corresponding data information, and display or output the corresponding data information after receiving an indication of successful payment sent from the fee management module; and

a settlement module, which is connected with the other one of the two negotiation modules and the fee management module, configured to obtain information on the fee deducted by the fee management module, the corresponding data information, information of the supplier who submits data resource corresponding to the corresponding data information and the revenue-sharing agreement stored by the other one of the two negotiation modules, and settle revenues for an account corresponding to information of the supplier according to the revenue-sharing agreement as well as the amounts of the fees concerned.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the supplier comprises at least one of data providers and individual users.

16. The system according to claim 14, further comprising a payment record module;

wherein the fee management module receives the payment request sent from the search module;

according to the account information carrying in the payment request, the fee management module inquires about successively paid data resource information recorded in the payment record module, if it is determined that corresponding account does not pay for data information which is requested to view, deducts fee corresponding to the data information which is requested to view, and sends the indication of successful payment to the search module after the corresponding account has paid for the data information which is requested to view;

the payment record module is configured to record the successively paid data resource information by the fee management module as well as the corresponding account information.