Method, Apparatus and System of Processing Correlated Keywords

• US 20140089337A1
• Filed: 12/04/2013
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Xu, Zhan, Wang, Weiwei
• Granted Patent: US 9,275,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus and a system of processing related keywords. The method includes: receive a primary keyword inputted by a user; form a spliced URL for requesting related keywords based on the primary keyword; establish a link between an embedded window object in a current web page and a server using the URL to obtain the related keywords from the server; the embedded window object creates a keyword list and presents the related keywords in the current web page; and obtain a related keyword selected by the user and instantaneously add the related keyword into an input box.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A method of processing correlated keywords, the method comprising:

receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a keyword at one or more servers;

obtaining multiple related keywords that are related to the keyword;

receiving a user selection of a related keyword of the multiple related keywords;

providing a keyword list including the related keyword; and

in response to a receipt of an additional user selection of an additional related keyword of the multiple related keywords;

updating the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list, and

presenting the updated keyword list.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising enabling a search using the updated keyword list.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the updating the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list comprises updating the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list if a number of keywords in the keyword list is greater than a predetermined value.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the presenting the updated keyword list comprises presenting the updated keyword list in an input box before the user completes user selections.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the updating the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list comprises updating an input box to include the related keyword and the additional keyword before the user completes user selections.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the keyword list is created using an embedded window object associated with a Webpage.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the embedded window object includes a predetermined height value of the keyword list and an offset that is relative to an input box that presents the keyword list.

9. Server memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a server, perform acts comprising:

receiving, from a user device, a keyword;

obtaining multiple related keywords that are related to the keyword;

receiving a user selection of a related keyword of the multiple related keywords;

providing a keyword list including the related keyword;

in response to a receipt of an additional user selection of an additional related keyword of the multiple related keywords, determining a number of keywords in the keyword list;

updating the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list in response to a determination that the number of keywords is greater than a predetermined value; and

presenting the updated keyword list.

10. The server memory of claim 9, wherein the acts further comprise enabling a search using the keyword list.

11. The server memory of claim 9, wherein the presenting the keyword list comprises presenting the updated keyword list using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

12. The server memory of claim 9, wherein the keyword list is created using an embedded window object associated with a Webpage.

13. The server memory of claim 12, wherein the embedded window object includes a predetermined height value of the keyword list and an offset that is relative to an input box that presents the keyword list.

14. The server memory of claim 9, wherein the acts further comprises determining that the keyword list does not include a duplication of the additional related keyword.

15. The server memory of claim 9 wherein the presenting the updated keyword list comprises presenting the updated keyword list using a predetermined graphic style.

16. A system for processing correlated keywords, the system comprising:

one or more servers comprising multiple components comprising;

an interface unit configured to;

receive, from a computing device, a keyword;

obtain multiple related keywords that are related to the keyword;

receive a user selection of a related keyword of the multiple related keywords;

an object processing unit configured to;

providing a keyword list including the related keyword;

in response to a receipt of an additional user selection of an additional related keyword of the multiple related keywords, determine a number of keywords in the keyword list;

update the keyword list by adding the additional related keyword into the keyword list in response to a determination that the number of keywords is greater than a predetermined value; and

present the updated keyword list via the interface unit.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the object processing unit further enable a search using the updated keyword list.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the presenting the updated keyword list comprises presenting the updated keyword list using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the keyword list is created using an embedded window object associated with a Webpage.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the embedded window object includes a predetermined height value of the keyword list and an offset that is relative to an input box that presents the keyword list.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein the presenting the updated keyword list comprises presenting the updated keyword list using a predetermined graphic style.