Method and system for providing object information on the internet

• US 9,390,189 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• 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:
  US14/521,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20150142814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 707/999.001, 707/999.102, 707/E17.107, 707/758, 707/736, 707/E17.055, 707/769, 707/999.104, 705/27.1, 705/26.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

configure a plurality of front-end categories to be displayed at a user interface;

configure a plurality of screening conditions corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of front-end categories, wherein a screening condition included in the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category included in the plurality of front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

store a screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category at a front-end category structure, wherein the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category comprises the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category and a category identifying information associated with the front-end category;

receive input object information pertaining to a network object;

configure a first back-end category associated with data stored at a server;

store the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with the 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 associated with the data stored at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, store the category identifying information associated with the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category with the network object in the first back-end category at the server;

display at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the 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 the data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category; and

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

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

2. The system of claim 1, wherein to configure the first back-end category associated with the data stored at the server comprises to configure the first back-end category according to a classification scheme used to store data at the server.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the classification scheme comprises a commodity classification scheme configured for storing commodity information at the server.

4. The system 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.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein to display the at least portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the user interface comprises to display category identifiers corresponding to respective ones of the at least portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the user interface.

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

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.

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

receive an instruction to cancel the front-end category; and

cancel the front-end category based at least in part on the instruction.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein to store the category identifying information associated with the front-end category with the network object at the server comprises to store the category identifying information associated with the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category in an index associated with the network object in the first back-end category at the server.

9. A method, comprising:

configuring a plurality of front-end categories to be displayed at a user interface;

configuring a plurality of screening conditions corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of front-end categories, wherein a screening condition included in the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category included in the plurality of front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

storing a screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category at a front-end category structure, wherein the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category comprises the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category and a category identifying information associated with the front-end category;

receiving input object information pertaining to a network object;

configuring a first back-end category associated with data stored at a server;

storing, using one or more processors, the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with the 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 associated with the data stored at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, storing the category identifying information associated with the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category with the network object in the first back-end category at the server;

displaying at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the 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 the data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category; and

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

10. The method of claim 9, wherein configuring the first back-end category associated with the data stored at the server comprises configuring the first back-end category according to a classification scheme used to store data at the server.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the classification scheme comprises a commodity classification scheme configured for storing commodity information at the server.

12. The method 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.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein displaying the at least portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the user interface comprises displaying category identifiers corresponding to respective ones of the at least portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the user interface.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

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.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an instruction to cancel the front-end category; and

canceling the front-end category based at least in part on the instruction.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein storing the category identifying information associated with the front-end category with the network object at the server comprises storing the category identifying information associated with the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category in an index associated with the network object in the first back-end category at the server.

17. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

configuring a plurality of front-end categories to be displayed at a user interface;

configuring a plurality of screening conditions corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of front-end categories, wherein a screening condition included in the plurality of screening conditions that corresponds to a front-end category included in front-end categories describes a property of one or more network objects that match the front-end category;

storing a screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category at a front-end category structure, wherein the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category comprises the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category and a category identifying information associated with the front-end category;

receiving input object information pertaining to a network object;

configuring a first back-end category associated with data stored at a server;

storing the input object information pertaining to the network object in the first back-end category associated with the 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 associated with the data stored at the server meets the screening condition corresponding to the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category;

in response to the determination that the network object matches the front-end category, storing the category identifying information associated with the front-end category included in the screening condition-category identification pair corresponding to the front-end category with the network object in the first back-end category at the server;

displaying at least a portion of the plurality of front-end categories at the 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 the data stored at the server based at least in part on a category identifying information associated with the displayed front-end category; and

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