Inquiry method and system, inquiry search server and inquiry terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9747373-B2
Application number	US-201214397541-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 11, 2012
Priority date	May 11, 2012
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

The disclosure relates to the communication field and disclosures an inquiry method, an inquiry system, an inquiry search server and an inquiry terminal. The method includes that: after receiving an inquiry request from an inquiry terminal, an inquiry search server acquires a keyword related to the inquiry request, determines a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals, and sends the inquiry request to each target inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group. The disclosure enables the users of inquiry terminals to inquiry of each other about a question and to obtain a corresponding answer, which undoubtedly facilitates the operation of the users and contributes to promoting the technical solution of the disclosure, moreover, the disclosure truly pools the wisdom of the masses to achieve an excellent inquiry-and-answer effect.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An inquiry method, comprising:
acquiring, by an inquiry search server, a keyword related to an inquiry request after the inquiry search server receives the inquiry request from an inquiry terminal, determining a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals, and sending the inquiry request to each target inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group; wherein the determining a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals refers to:
matching the keyword with the relevant information of the other inquiry terminals, preferentially with an idle inquiry terminal and/or an inquiry terminal getting more points, and determining a final target inquiry terminal group based on the number of target inquiry terminals required by the inquiry terminal;
when there is no inquiry terminal matching with the keyword or the number of the target inquiry terminals fails to meet the requirement of the inquiry terminal, adding an inquiry terminal close to a home address or a current location of the user of the inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group;
alternatively, when there is no inquiry terminal matching with the keyword or the number of the target inquiry terminals fails to meet the requirement of the inquiry terminal, preferentially adding the inquiry terminal getting more points in the target inquiry terminal group.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, by the inquiry search server, an answer to the inquiry after the inquiry search server receives the answer from a target inquiry terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
keeping the number of answers to the inquiry received by the inquiry search server and sent from the inquiry search server to the inquiry terminal not more than the number of answers that the inquiry terminal desires to acquire.

4. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

5. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

6. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
storing all relevant information of the inquiry terminal in the inquiry search server, wherein the relevant information of the inquiry terminal comprises at least one of: personal information of a user of the inquiry terminal, and information updated by the inquiry terminal in real time,
wherein the personal information of the user of the inquiry terminal comprises at least one of: a name, gender, age, an ID card number, a home address, a skilled field, a demand, and a wish of each family member of the user of the inquiry terminal, and
wherein the information updated by the inquiry terminal in real time comprises at least one of: geographical location information, the number of target inquiry terminals required by the inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group, the number of answers desired by the inquiry terminal, an idle/busy state of a receiving cache of the inquiry terminal and points gotten by the inquiry terminal as a target inquiry terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the acquiring a keyword related to an inquiry request refers to:
notifying, by the inquiry terminal, the inquiry search server of the keyword of the inquiry request when the inquiry terminal initiates the inquiry request;
or analyzing, by the inquiry search server, the keyword of the inquiry request from content of the inquiry request received.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

10. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
assigning, by the inquiry search server, identification information to each inquiry terminal, and sending the inquiry request received to each target inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group according to the identification information of the each inquiry terminal.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

12. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

13. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the inquiry search server, an evaluation given by the inquiry terminal on an answer and updating points of a target inquiry terminal giving the answer according to scores of the evaluation.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the inquiry request comprises a voice inquiry request, a video inquiry request and a text inquiry request; and
the answer to the inquiry request comprises a voice answer, a video answer and a text answer.

15. An inquiry search server, comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory memory for storing instructions executable by the processor;
wherein the non-transitory memory is configured to:
receive an inquiry request from an inquiry terminal;
acquire a keyword of the inquiry request;
determine a given number of other inquiry terminals as a target inquiry terminal group according to the keyword and relevant information of the other inquiry terminals,
match the keyword with the relevant information of each inquiry terminal, preferentially with relevant information of an idle inquiry terminal and/or an inquiry terminal getting more points, and determine a final target inquiry terminal group based on the number of target inquiry terminals required by the inquiry terminal, when there is no inquiry terminal matching with the keyword or the number of target inquiry terminals in the target inquiry terminal group fails to meet the requirement of the inquiry terminal, an inquiry terminal close to a home address and/or a current location of the user of the inquiry terminal is preferentially added into the target inquiry terminal group; or, when there is no inquiry terminal matching with the keyword or the number of the target inquiry terminals in the target inquiry terminal group fails to meet the requirement of the inquiry terminal, the inquiry terminal getting more points is preferentially added into the target inquiry terminal group; and
send the inquiry request to each inquiry terminal in the target inquiry terminal group.

16. The inquiry search server according to claim 15 , further configured to store relevant information of each inquiry terminal, wherein the re

Assignees

• Yin Junjie
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Yin Junjie

Classifications

• G06F17/30867 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/023

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• G06F17/3053

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W8/005

  Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals · CPC title

• G06F17/30964

  Physics · mapped topic