Efficient navigation category management

• US 10,296,636 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2016
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Hu, Bin, Gao, Xiaoyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Spieler, William
• Application Number:
  US15/287,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20170103118A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

One embodiment of the present application provides a system for efficiently managing navigation categories in a multi-site web environment. During operation, the system determines whether a category of a product is a synchronized category. A synchronized category is shared by a main site and a local site of the multi-site web environment. If the category is a synchronized category, the system copies the category from the main site to the local site.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for efficiently managing navigation categories in a multi-site web environment, comprising:

determining, by a computing system, that a category of a product is a synchronized category, wherein a synchronized category is shared by a main site and a local site of the multi-site web environment; and

copying the category from the main site to the local site in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising establishing a mapping between the category at the main site and the category at the local site, wherein a respective category is assigned a category identifier, and wherein the mapping is based on a first category identifier of the category at the main site and a second category identifier of the category at the local site.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first category identifier is in a range of identifiers allocated for the main site, and wherein the second category identifier is in a range of identifiers allocated for the local site.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an operation on the category at the main site; and

in response to a category being a synchronized category, applying the operation to the category at the local site.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the operation includes one of:

addition, deletion, and update.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category and receiving an instruction to convert to a differentiated category, converting the category at the local site to a differentiated category by:

terminating a mapping between the category at the main site and the category at the local site; and

setting the category to be a differentiated category.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to determining that a second category of a second product is a differentiated category and receiving an instruction to convert to a synchronized category, converting the second category at the local site to a synchronized category by:

deleting the second category at the local site;

copying the second category from the main site to the local site; and

establishing a mapping between the second category at the main site and the copied category at the local site.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the main site and the local site are distributed in different geographic areas.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for efficiently managing navigation categories in a multi-site web environment, the method comprising:

determining, by a computing system, that a category of a product is a synchronized category, wherein a synchronized category is shared by a main site and a local site of the multi-site web environment; and

copying the category from the main site to the local site in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises establishing a mapping between the category at the main site and the category at the local site, wherein a respective category is assigned a category identifier, and wherein the mapping is based on a first category identifier of the category at the main site and a second category identifier of the category at the local site.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the first category identifier is in a range of identifiers allocated for the main site, and wherein the second category identifier is in a range of identifiers allocated for the local site.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying an operation on the category at the main site; and

in response to a category being a synchronized category, applying the operation to the category at the local site.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operation includes one of:

addition, deletion, and update.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises, in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category and receiving an instruction to convert to a differentiated category, converting the category at the local site to a differentiated category by:

terminating a mapping between the category at the main site and the category at the local site; and

setting the category to be a differentiated category.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises, in response to determining that a second category of a second product is a differentiated category and receiving an instruction to convert to a synchronized category, converting the second category at the local site to a synchronized category by:

deleting the second category at the local site;

copying the second category from the main site to the local site; and

establishing a mapping between the second category at the main site and the copied category at the local site.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the main site and the local site are distributed in different geographic areas.

18. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises establishing a mapping between the category at the main site and the category at the local site, wherein a respective category is assigned a category identifier, and wherein the mapping is based on a first category identifier of the category at the main site and a second category identifier of the category at the local site.

19. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying an operation on the category at the main site, wherein the operation includes one of;

addition, deletion, and update; and

in response to a category being a synchronized category, applying the operation to the category at the local site.

20. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises:

in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category and receiving an instruction to convert to a differentiated category, converting the category at the local site to a differentiated category; and

in response to determining that a second category of a second product is a differentiated category and receiving an instruction to convert to a synchronized category, converting the category at the local site to a synchronized category.

17. A computing system for efficiently managing navigation categories in a multi-site web environment, the computing system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising;

determining that a category of a product is a synchronized category, wherein a synchronized category is shared by a main site and a local site of the multi-site web environment; and

copying the category from the main site to the local site in response to determining that the category is a synchronized category.