GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20140012840A1
• Filed: 06/27/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Han, Xiaomei, Song, Chao, Wei, Hui
• Granted Patent: US 9,934,293 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/353 into predefined classes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Generating search results is disclosed, including: sorting a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information; for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determining a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and determining whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

sort a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information;

for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determine a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and

determine whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor; and

one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors and configured to provide the one or more processors with instructions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first attribute comprises a main product attribute.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein to determine the value included in the group of sets of web page information includes to:

extract values associated with product words fields from the group of sets of web page information;

determine a percentage of occurrence for at least each unique value of the extracted values; and

determine at least the unique value of the extracted values in the event the percentage of occurrence associated with the unique value is equal to or exceeds a first preset threshold value.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

for the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor, determine another value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a second attribute associated with the vendor.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the second attribute comprises a main industry attribute.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein to determine the other value included in the group of sets of web page information includes to:

extract values associated with associated industry fields from the group of sets of web page information;

determine a percentage of occurrence for at least each unique value of the extracted values; and

determine at least the unique value of the extracted values in the event the percentage of occurrence associated with the unique value is equal to or exceeds a second preset threshold value.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein to determine whether the set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether the search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor is further based on whether the search query corresponds to the attribute value of the second attribute associated with the vendor.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein in the event that the search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor or the attribute value of the second attribute associated with the vendor, to include the set of web page information into the search results and in the event that the search query does not correspond to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor nor the attribute value of the second attribute associated with the vendor, to exclude the set of web page information from the search results.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein in the event that the search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor, to include the set of web page information into the search results and in the event that the search query does not correspond to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor, to exclude the set of web page information from the search results.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine whether to filter out a first set of web page information from the plurality of sets of web page information based on a similarity between the first set of web page information and the search query.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to rank search results.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to return at least a portion of the ranked search results.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least some of the plurality of sets of web page information comprise sets of product information.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sets of web page information were determined to match the search query.

15. A method, comprising:

sorting, using one or more processors, a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information;

for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determining a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and

determining whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first attribute comprises a main product attribute.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein determining the value included in the group of sets of web page information includes:

extracting values associated with product words fields from the group of sets of web page information;

determining a percentage of occurrence for at least each unique value of the extracted values; and

determining at least the unique value of the extracted values in the event the percentage of occurrence associated with the unique value is equal to or exceeds a first preset threshold value.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

for the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor, determining another value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a second attribute associated with the vendor.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the second attribute comprises a main industry attribute.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein determining the other value included in the group of sets of web page information includes:

extracting values associated with associated industry fields from the group of sets of web is page information;

determining a percentage of occurrence for at least each unique value of the extracted values; and

determining at least the unique value of the extracted values in the event the percentage of occurrence associated with the unique value is equal to or exceeds a second preset threshold value.

21. A computer program product, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

sorting a plurality of sets of web page information into one or more groups based on vendors associated with respective ones of the plurality of sets of web page information;

for a group of sets of web page information associated with a vendor, determining a value included in the group of sets of web page information as an attribute value of a first attribute associated with the vendor; and

determining whether a set of web page information of the group of sets of web page information associated with the vendor is to be included in search results based at least in part on whether a search query corresponds to the attribute value of the first attribute associated with the vendor.