User information classification method and apparatus, and user group information acquisition method and apparatus

• US 9,992,141 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Luo, Xiaoxia
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khurshid, Zia
• Application Number:
  US14/523,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,320 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses of classifying user information and obtaining user group information, which mainly include: obtaining, by an instant messaging server, an entity data unit posted by a first user from a target database; matching conversation information generated between a second user and the first user through an instant messaging client with the entity data unit; and determining user group information of the first user to which user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information belongs based on a matching result, where the user group information of the first user is determined according to attribute information and/or name information of the entity data unit posted by the first user. As such, for a first user using an instant messaging client, not only the approach of managing the user information of a second user by the first user is improved, but also commodity information can be pushed to the second user in a targeted manner according to a group to which the second user belongs, thereby improving efficiency of releasing the commodity information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining, by an instant messaging server, an entity data unit posted by a first user from a target database by;

receiving a synchronization response message that is returned from the target database, wherein the synchronization response message is used for indicating whether the entity data unit posted by the first user is updated,

determining whether the synchronization response message includes an updated entity data unit, and

upon determining that the synchronization response message does not include the updated entity data unit, reading the entity data unit posted by the first user from a local cache;

matching conversation information generated between a second user and the first user through an instant messaging client with the entity data unit;

determining user group information of the first user based on a matching result, wherein user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information belongs to the user group information of the first user, wherein the user group information of the first user is determined according to attribute information or name information of the entity data unit posted by the first user; and

classifying the user information of the second user based on the user group information of the first user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to obtaining the entity data unit, the method further comprises:

receiving a login request message from the first user, wherein the login request message comprises user information of the first user;

performing a validity check on the user information of the first user;

when the validity check is successfully passed, sending a synchronization request message of the entity data unit to the target database, wherein the synchronization request message comprises the user information of the first user; and

receiving a synchronization response message that is returned from the target database, wherein the synchronization response message is used for indicating whether the entity data unit posted by the first user is updated.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the entity data unit comprises:

upon determining that the synchronization response message includes the updated entity data unit, receiving the updated entity data unit.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein after receiving the updated entity data unit, the method further comprises locally storing the updated entity data unit that is received.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein after obtaining the entity data unit, the method further comprises parsing the entity data unit to determine the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the user group information of the first user comprises at least one of:

after obtaining the entity data unit, establishing a correspondence relationship between the user information of the first user and the attribute information of the entity data unit, and determining the user group information of the first user based on the attribute information of the entity data unit;

or

after obtaining the entity data unit posted by the first user, establishing a correspondence relationship between the user information of the first user and the name information of the entity data unit, and determining the user group information of the first user based on the name information of the entity data unit.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein matching the conversation information generated between the second user and the first user through the instant messaging client with the entity data unit, comprises:

obtaining the conversation information generated between the second user and the first user through the instant messaging client;

determining whether the conversation information comprises the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit corresponding to the user information of the first user; and

when a determination result indicates that the conversation information comprises the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit corresponding to the user information of the first user, establishing a correspondence relationship between the user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information and the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit corresponding to the user information of the first user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the user group information of the first user comprises:

determining attribute information or name information corresponding to the user information of the second user based on a correspondence relationship between the user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information and the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit corresponding to the user information of the first user;

searching for the user group information of the first user corresponding to the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit based on the determined attribute information or name information corresponding to the user information of the second user; and

upon finding the user group information of the first user corresponding to the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit, determining an association relationship between the user information of the second user and the found user group information of the first user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining attribute information or name information corresponding to the user information of the second user based on a correspondence relationship between the user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information and the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit corresponding to the user information of the first user;

searching for the user group information of the first user corresponding to the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit based on the determined attribute information or name information corresponding to the user information of the second user; and

when the user group information of the first user corresponding to the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit is not found, generating the user group information of the first user based on the attribute information or the name information of the entity data unit.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the user group information of the first user comprises determining an association relationship between the user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information and the generated user group information of the first user.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising loading the user information of the second user into a group corresponding to the user group information of the first user.

12. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

obtaining, by an instant messaging server, an entity data unit posted by a first user from a target database;

matching conversation information generated between a second user and the first user through an instant messaging client with the entity data unit;

determining user group information of the first user based on a matching result, wherein user information of the second user corresponding to the conversation information belongs to the user group information of the first user, wherein the user group information of the first user is determined according to attribute information or name information of the entity data unit posted by the first user;

classifying the user information of the second user based on the user group information of the first user;

receiving a synchronization response message that is returned from the target database, wherein the synchronization response message is used for indicating whether the entity data unit posted by the first user is updated;

determining whether the synchronization response message includes an updated entity data unit; and

upon determining that the synchronization response message does not include the updated entity data unit, reading the entity data unit posted by the first user from a local cache.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 12, the acts further comprising:

receiving a login request message from the first user, wherein the login request message comprises user information of the first user;

performing a validity check on the user information of the first user;

when the validity check is successfully passed, sending a synchronization request message of the entity data unit to the target database, wherein the synchronization request message comprises the user information of the first user; and

receiving a synchronization response message that is returned from the target database, wherein the synchronization response message is used for indicating whether the entity data unit posted by the first user is updated.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 12, the acts further comprising:

upon determining that the synchronization response message includes the updated entity data unit, receiving the updated entity data unit.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, the acts further comprising locally storing the updated entity data unit that is received.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 12, the acts further comprising loading the user information of the second user into a group corresponding to the user group information of the first user.

17. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;

memory;

an acquisition module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors that is used for obtaining an entity data unit posted by a first user from a target database, the acquisition module further used for;

receiving a synchronization response message that is returned from the target database, wherein the synchronization response message is used for indicating whether the entity data unit posted by the first user is updated,

determining whether the synchronization response message includes an updated entity data unit,

upon determining that the synchronization response message includes the updated entity data unit, receiving the updated entity data unit; and

upon determining that the synchronization response message does not include the updated entity data unit, reading the entity data unit posted by the first user from a local cache;

a determination module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors that is used for determining attribute information or name information of the entity data unit that is posted by the first user, the attribute information or name information of the entity data unit including conversation information between the first user and a second user;

a user group information generation module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors that is used for generating user group information of the first user corresponding to one or more of the attribute information and the name information based at least in part on one or more of the attribute information and the name information of the entity data unit; and

a classification module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors that is used for classifying user information of the second user based on the user group information of the first user.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising a relationship establishment module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors that is used for:

establishing a first correspondence relationship between the attribute information of the entity data unit, the user group information of the first user corresponding to the attribute information, and user information of the first user; and

establishing a second correspondence relationship between the name information of the entity data unit, the user group information of the first user corresponding to the name information, and the user information of the first user.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the user information of the first user comprises account information with which the first user logs in an instant messaging server, or an instant messaging identifier with which the user logs in to an instant messaging client.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the user group information comprises category information.