Method, device, and system for searching key words

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9946770-B2
Application number	US-201414490428-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2014
Priority date	Jun 4, 2013
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A method and system for searching key words are provided. The method includes: acquire key words typed in the search box, and based on the key words, a search request is sent; associated words which are found based on the search request as well as a summary of the results relevant to the associated words are sent back; the associated words and the summary of the results relevant to the associated words are displayed respectively in the list corresponding to the search box stated previously.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for searching key words, comprising:
obtaining, by a terminal device, a key word typed in a search box;
sending, by the terminal device, a search request based on the obtained key word;
obtaining, by the terminal device, a first set of directly associated words of the key word from a keyword database based on a matching between the search request and the keyword database, and obtaining a summary extracted from search results queried using the first set of directly associated words;
obtaining, by the terminal device, a second set of indirectly associated words of the key word;
displaying, by the terminal device as a list, the first set of directly associated words and the second set of indirectly associated words along with but below the first set of directly associated words in the search box;
upon displaying the list, triggering a time measurement by the terminal device to acquire a user dwell time on the displayed first set of associated words;
monitoring and determining that the user dwell time on the displayed directly associated words has reached a predetermined threshold user dwell time; and
displaying, by the terminal device upon determining that the user dwell time has reached the predetermined threshold user dwell time, the summary extracted from the search results along with the displayed first set of associated words.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of directly associated words of the key word comprise word groups in the keyword database having at least one word matching the key word.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the
second set of indirectly associated words of the key word comprise words from the keyword database that are associated with but not direct match of the key word.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the search results queried using the first set of directly associated words are obtained by searches performed by a server using the first set of directed associated words as search queries.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein after obtaining the summary extracted from the search results, the method further comprises:
obtaining uniform resource locators (URLs) of webpages that comprises the search results queried using the directly associated words.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein after displaying the directly associated words and the summary extracted from the search results, the method further comprises:
inserting the URLs of the webpages into the summary extracted from the search results;
receiving a selection operation that selects the summary; and
loading and displaying the webpages that comprise the search results after receiving the selection operation.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the summary extracted from the search results comprises:
obtaining corresponding setting information based on the directly associated words; and
extracting the summary from the search results relevant to both the directly associated words and the setting information.

8. A system for searching key words, comprising:
one or more hardware processors; and
non-transitory storage medium accessible to the one or more hardware processors;
the non-transitory storage medium is configured to store instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, are configured to cause the system to:
receive a key word typed in a search box and to send a search request based on the key word;
receive a first set of directly associated words of the key word from a keyword database and a summary extracted from search results queried using the first set of directly associated words;
receive a second set of indirectly associated words of the key word;
display, as a list, the first set of directly associated words and the second set of indirectly associated words along with but below the first set of directly associated words in the search box;
upon displaying the list, trigger a time measurement to acquire a user dwell time on the displayed first set of associated words;
monitor and determine that the user dwell time on the displayed directly associated words has reached a predetermined threshold user dwell time; and
display, upon determining that the user dwell time has reached the predetermined threshold user dwell time, the summary extracted from the search results along with the displayed first set of associated words.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first set of directly associated words comprises word groups in the keyword database having at least one word matching the key word.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the second set of indirectly associated words of the key word comprises words from the keyword database that are associated with but not direct match of the key word.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the search results queried using the first set of directly associated words are obtained by searches performed by a server using the first set of directed associated words as search queries.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, are further configured to cause the system to:
acquire URLs of webpages comprising the search results queried using the directly associated words and return the URLs.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, are further configured to cause the system to:
insert the URLs of the webpages comprising the search results relevant to the directly associated words into the summary extracted from the search results displayed in the list;
receive a selection operation that selects the summary; and
load and display the webpages that comprise the search results after receiving the selection operation.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein instructions, when executed by the one or more hardware processors to cause the system to acquire the summary extracted from the search results, are configured to cause the system to:
obtain a setting information based on the direction associated words; and
extract the summary from the search results relevant to both the directly associated words and the setting information.

15. A non-transitory storage medium configured to store instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor of a terminal device, cause the terminal device to:
obtain a key word typed in a search box;
send a search request based on the obtained key word;
obtain a first set of directly associated words of the key word from a keyword database based on a matching between the search request and the keyword database, and obtaining a summary extracted from search results queried using the first set of directly associated words;
obtain a second set of indirectly associated words of the key word;
display as a list, the first set of directly associated words and the second set of indirectly associated words along with but below the first set of directly associated words in the search box;
upon displaying the list, trigger a time measurement by the terminal device to acquire a user dwell time on the displayed first set of associated words;
monitoring and determining that the user dwell time on the displayed directly associated words has reached a predetermined threshold user dwell time; and
displaying, upon determining that the user dwell time has reached the predetermined threshold user dwell time, the summary extracted from the search results along with the displayed first set of associated words.

16. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the first set of directly

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Dou Ningjun

Classifications

• G06F16/90324 Primary

  using system suggestions · CPC title

• G06F16/9566

  URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F3/0237

  using prediction or retrieval techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/248 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title