Method and system for providing object information on the internet

• US 8,903,821 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2009
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Wang, Ping, Yue, Xu Qiang, Zhu, Chen, Wu, Gan, Hua, Wei Wen, Wang, Jia
• Primary Examiner(s): Saeed, Usmaan
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, CECILE H
• Application Number:
  US12/462,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,952 Days
• Field of Search: 707/E17.014, 707999002-999005, 707/999.1, 707/791, 707/804, 707/700, 707/767, 707/731, 707/E17.009, 707/999.104, 707/999.102, 707/999.003, 707/999.103, 707/999.107, 707/E17.107, 707/E17.055, 707/705, 386/247, 705/1.1, 705/16, 705/22, 705 35- 37, 705 261- 268, 705/26.41, 704/270.1, 709/207
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

Providing object information on the Internet includes configuring a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions for screening the plurality of network objects, where each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories. Providing object information further includes receiving object information pertaining to a network object, the object information including a screening condition for the network object; storing the object information in a back-end category, determining a front-end category to which the network object belongs, according to the screening condition and storing correlation information of the object and the front-end category, wherein the back-end category is separate from and different than the front-end category.

Claims

1. A method for providing object information on the Internet, comprising:

configuring a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions determined based at least in part on the plurality of front-end categories for screening the plurality of network objects, each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories, wherein a screening condition of the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category of the plurality of front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

receiving input object information pertaining to a network object comprising a commodity to be stored at a server;

creating a first back-end category associated with data stored at the server including by;

configuring the first back-end category according to a classification scheme of the network object; and

correlating the network object with a selection of the first back-end category that is input via a terminal;

storing the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with data stored at the server;

determining that the network object matches the front-end category by determining that the input object information pertaining to the network object stored in the first back-end category at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, storing a category identifying information associated with the front-end category in a commodity index associated with the network object at the server;

displaying at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at a user interface;

receiving a selection to a displayed front-end category;

in response to the selection to the displayed front-end category, identifying a correlating object stored in a second back-end category associated with data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category;

outputting object information pertaining to the identified correlating object at the user interface;

receiving an instruction to modify the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category; and

modifying the screening condition based at least in part on the instruction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction comprises a first instruction and the method further comprising canceling at least one front-end category according to a second instruction received.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the object information pertaining to the network object is received based on a commodity classification scheme configured for storing commodity information at the server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second back-end category is not the same as the displayed front-end category.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category comprises one or more of the following:

a brand and a price range.

6. A system for providing object information on the Internet, comprising:

a processor configured to;

configure a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions determined based at least in part on the plurality of front-end categories for screening the plurality of network objects, each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories, wherein a screening condition of the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category of the plurality of front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

receive input object information pertaining to a network object comprising a commodity to be stored at a server;

create a first back-end category associated with data stored at the server including by;

configuring the first back-end category according to a classification scheme of the network object; and

correlating the network object with a selection of the first back-end category that is input via a terminal;

store the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with data stored at the server;

determine that the network object matches the front-end category by determining that the input object information pertaining to the network object stored in the first back-end category at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, store a category identifying information associated with the front-end category in a commodity index associated with the network object at the server;

display at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at a user interface;

receive a selection to a displayed front-end category;

in response to the selection to the displayed front-end category, identify a correlating object stored in a second back-end category associated with data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category;

output object information pertaining to the identified correlating object at the user interface;

receive an instruction to modify the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category; and

modify the screening condition based at least in part on the instruction;

and

a memory coupled to the processor, configured to provide the processor with instructions.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the instruction comprises a first instruction and wherein the processor is further configured to cancel at least one front-end category according to a second instruction received.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category comprises one or more of the following:

a brand and a price range.

9. A computer program product for providing object information on the Internet, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

configuring a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions determined based at least in part on the plurality of front-end categories for screening the plurality of network objects, each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories, wherein a screening condition of the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category of the plurality of front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

receiving input object information pertaining to a network object comprising a commodity to be stored at a server;

creating a first back-end category associated with data stored at the server including by;

configuring the first back-end category according to a classification scheme of the network object; and

correlating the network object with a selection of the first back-end category that is input via a terminal;

storing the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with data stored at the server;

determining that the network object matches the front-end category by determining that the input object information pertaining to the network object stored in the first back-end category at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, storing a category identifying information associated with the front-end category in a commodity index associated with the network object at the server;

displaying at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at a user interface;

receiving a selection to a displayed front-end category;

in response to the selection to the displayed front-end category, identifying a correlating object stored in a second back-end category associated with data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category;

outputting object information pertaining to the identified correlating object at the user interface;

receiving an instruction to modify the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category; and

modifying the screening condition based at least in part on the instruction.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category comprises one or more of the following:

a brand and a price range.