A system and method for managing partner feed index

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016203175-A1
Application number	US-201414912455-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 29, 2014
Priority date	Aug 29, 2013
Publication date	Jul 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

There is disclosed a method of operating a partner feed index. The method may be executable at a server. The method comprises receiving an updated-partner-feed; determining a partition associated with the updated-partner-feed, the partition including a first-prior-partner-feed and a second-prior-partner-feed, the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed having been grouped into the partition based on a characteristic shared by the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed; responsive to the updated-partner-feed being indicative of a difference with the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed, updating the partition based on the updated-partner-feed.

First claim

1 . A method of operating a partner feed index, the method executable at a server, the method comprising:
receiving an updated-partner-feed, the updated-partner-feed representing a given item; parsing the updated-partner-feed into key fields, the key fields being representative of a characteristic of the given item; accessing a processed-partner-feeds-database, the processed-partner-feeds-database comprising a single persistent storage, the persistent storage comprising a plurality of partitions associated with a subject, each of the partition grouping a specific item associated with the subject; determining a given partition associated with the given item the given partition including a first-prior-partner-feed and a second-prior-partner-feed, each of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed representing a same item as of the given item, the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed having been grouped into the given partition based on a characteristic shared by the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed; and, responsive to the updated-partner-feed being indicative of a difference with the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed, updating only the given partition based on the updated-partner-feed without updating other partitions stored in the persistent storage.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising updating a search index based on the updated partition.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein said updating a search index comprises determining a portion of the search index associated with the updated portion of the partition.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein said updating a search index comprises only re-indexing said portion of the search index associated with the updated portion of the partition.

5 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising preparing the updated portion of the partition for indexing prior to said updating a search index.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises one or more of: (i) de-serializing; (ii) unifying; (iii) validating the partition by checking against business logic; (iv) image processing; (v) calculating static relevancy; (vi) clustering the advertisements; (vii) validation of the cluster volume and (viii) serialization of the processed partitions.

7 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises de-serializing the updated-partner-feed and wherein said de-serializing comprises converting the updated-partner-feed from a first format to a second format.

8 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises unifying key fields within the updated-partner-feed.

9 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises validating the updated-partner-feed by checking against a business logic.

10 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises image processing.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein said image processing comprises re-sizing images contained within the updated-partner-feed.

12 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said preparing comprises calculating static relevancy.

13 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said processing comprises checking the updated-partner-feed, the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed for duplicates.

14 . The method of claim 5 , wherein said processing comprises validating the size of the partition.

15 - 16 . (canceled)

17 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said parsing comprises executing a unification function.

18 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said updating the partition based on the updated-partner-feed comprises only updating the portion of the partition associated with the updated-partner-feed.

19 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic shared by the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed is determined based on the key fields associated with the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed.

20 . The method of claim 1 , wherein where the updated-partner-feed is being indicative of one of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed being no longer active, said updating comprises removing the respective one of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed.

21 . The method of claim 1 , wherein where the updated-partner-feed is being indicative of a new partner feed being different from the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed, said updating comprises creating a new partner feed in the partition containing the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed.

22 . The method of claim 1 , wherein where the updated-partner-feed is being indicative of one of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed having been changed, said updating comprises updating the respective one of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed.

23 . (canceled)

24 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the given item is representative of an advertisement.

25 . A system for operating a partner feed index, system comprising:
a feed processing apparatus configured to:
receive an updated-partner-feed, the updated-partner-feed representing a given item;
parse the updated-partner-feed into key fields, the key fields being representative of a characteristic of the given item;
access a processed-partner-feeds-database, the processed-partner-feeds-database comprising a single persistent storage, the persistent storage comprising a plurality of partitions associated with a subject, each of the partition grouping a specific item associated with the subject;
determine a given partition associated with the given item, the given partition including a first-prior-partner-feed and a second-prior-partner-feed, each of the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed representing a same item as of the given item, the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed having been grouped into the given partition based on a characteristic shared by the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed;
responsive to the updated-partner-feed being indicative of a difference with the first-prior-partner-feed and the second-prior-partner-feed, update only the given partition based on the updated-partner-feed without updating other partitions stored in the persistent storage.

26 - 48 . (canceled)

Assignees

• Yandex Europe Ag

Inventors

• Kachmar Dmitry Igorevich
• Tcesko Vadim Aleksandrovich

Classifications

• G06F16/23 Primary

  Updating · CPC title

• G06F17/30598

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30321

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30569

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30424

  Physics · mapped topic