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| 20120131582 | System and Method for Real-Time Batch Account Processing - The present disclosure discloses a technique for real-time batch account processing. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) receiving, by an account processing center, a marked request for batch processing; (2) caching the marked request; (3) pre-processing sub-requests of a type relating to an account that are in the marked request, including merging operations of a type for processing for the account; and (4) processing the marked request, including the pre-processed sub-requests, to provide a processing result to a corresponding client. The request for batch processing can be directly submitted at the client or submitted by a client through an interface that is provided to the client for submitting a request including the request for batch processing. When submitting the request for batch processing, the client can wait for the processing result online, and obtain the processing result at real-time. Further, when receiving the request for batching processing, the account processing center can pre-process it, e.g., merging operations for the same account, and thus increase efficiency of batch processing. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131438 | Method and System of Web Page Content Filtering - The present disclosure provides a method and system for web page content filtering. A method comprises: examining the web page content provided by a user; obtaining at least one high risk rule from a high risk characteristic library when the examining of the web page content detects a high risk characteristic word, the at least one high risk rule corresponding to the high risk characteristic word; obtaining a characteristic score of the web page content based on matching of the at least one high risk rule to the web page content; and filtering the web page content based on the characteristic score. The difference between the present disclosure and prior art techniques is that the disclosed embodiments can more precisely carry out web page content filtering to achieve better real-time safety and reliability of an e-commerce transaction. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131437 | Method, Apparatus and System of Displaying Webpages - A method of displaying a webpage includes: receiving a first request message from a client requesting to browse a webpage; sending a second request message to the client requesting for a screen resolution adopted by the client; receiving, form the client, information indicative of the screen resolution adopted by the client; selecting a font size corresponding to the screen resolution adopted by the client according to the screen resolution adopted by the client and a predetermined correlation between screen resolutions and font sizes; generating the webpage in a scale corresponding to the screen resolution adopted by the client and the selected font size; and sending the webpage to the client. Therefore, the website server is enabled to generate webpages with font sizes to facilitate optimal webpage browsing according to the screen resolution currently adopted, thereby effectively improving the display performance of the webpage, enhancing the quality of service of a website system, and significantly improving the user experience. A website server and a website system are also disclosed. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130804 | PREDICTION OF COST AND INCOME ESTIMATES ASSOCIATED WITH A BID RANKING MODEL - Prediction of cost and income estimates associated with a bid ranking model is disclosed, including: receiving a search keyword estimate prediction request, wherein the request comprises a search keyword, a bid price associated with the search keyword, and a prediction period; determining an average click through rate associated with the search keyword associated with the prediction period for a ranking position; determining a traffic value associated with the search keyword associated with the prediction period; determining an average cost per click associated with the search keyword associated with the prediction period for the ranking position; determining a number of impressions associated with the search keyword for the ranking position; and determining a cost estimate and an income estimate associated with the search keyword associated with the prediction period. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130705 | TEXT SEGMENTATION WITH MULTIPLE GRANULARITY LEVELS - Text processing includes: segmenting received text based on a lexicon of smallest semantic units to obtain medium-grained segmentation results; merging the medium-grained segmentation results to obtain coarse-grained segmentation results, the coarse-grained segmentation results having coarser granularity than the medium-grained segmentation results; looking up in the lexicon of smallest semantic units respective search elements that correspond to segments in the medium-grained segmentation results; and forming fine-grained segmentation results based on the respective search elements, the fine-grained segmentation results having finer granularity than the medium-grained segmentation results. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120124523 | Method and Apparatus for Displaying Cascading Menu - The present disclosure discloses a method of displaying a cascading menu that includes a plurality of submenus. The method determines a first submenu as indicated for browsing by a user based on a clicking event of the user. When an operation interface of the first submenu is in a collapsed mode, a number of submenus that are currently in an expanded mode within an operation interface of the cascading menu is counted. When the number of submenus that are currently in the expanded mode reaches a defined threshold, at least a second submenu is selected from the submenus that are currently in the expanded mode, and an operation interface of the second submenu is shrunk. The operation interface of the first submenu is expanded. Therefore, a size of the operation interface of the cascading menu will not increase as the number of the expanded submenus increases. As such, the amount of a page space occupied by the cascading menu is reduced and utilization of the page space is improved. The present disclosure further discloses a terminal apparatus. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SAVING DATABASE STORAGE SPACE - Saving database storage space includes receiving, using a processor, one or more properties associated with a newly released commodity input at a front-end server; determining whether the one or more properties of the newly released commodity match a standard property unit (SPU), wherein the SPU includes a plurality of properties common to at least two commodities of which data is stored at a back-end server; and in the event that the one or more properties of the newly released commodity match the SPU, storing data associated with binding the newly released commodity with the matching SPU at the back-end server. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123912 | Method and System for Account Parallel Processing - A method for account parallel processing used by an account processing center to process a request for account operation is disclosed. The method comprises: (1) categorizing accounts as high parallel occurrence accounts and common accounts; (2) when receiving the request from the client for processing operation of an account, firstly determining whether the account is a high parallel occurrence account; and if the account is a high parallel occurrence account, continuing to a step (3), otherwise, conducting a step (4); (3) if the account is locked, queuing a current operation to wait until implementation of the current operation; and (4) further determining, by the account processing center, whether the account is locked and outputting an error message when the account is locked, otherwise implementing the current operation. Such method provides more high quality services to the high parallel occurrence accounts. As for the common accounts, when there is a high volume of parallel transactions on the common accounts, the volume of parallel processing can be effectively controlled by outputting an error message to prevent comment accounts from causing damage the system. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120078631 | RECOGNITION OF TARGET WORDS USING DESIGNATED CHARACTERISTIC VALUES - Target word recognition includes: obtaining a candidate word set and corresponding characteristic computation data, the candidate word set comprising text data, and characteristic computation data being associated with the candidate word set; performing segmentation of the characteristic computation data to generate a plurality of text segments; combining the plurality of text segments to form a text data combination set; determining an intersection of the candidate word set and the text data combination set, the intersection comprising a plurality of text data combinations; determining a plurality of designated characteristic values for the plurality of text data combinations; based at least in part on the plurality of designated characteristic values and according to at least a criterion, recognizing among the plurality of text data combinations target words whose characteristic values fulfill the criterion. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120047148 | Method for Generating Search Result and System for Information Search - The present disclosure discloses a method for generating a search result and an information search system. The method for generating a search result includes: receiving, by an information search system, a search request; obtaining, by searching, a plurality of pieces of matching information that match the search request; obtaining a respective amount of user response associated with each of the plurality of pieces of matching information and further obtaining a total amount of user response associated with a respective categories to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs; and ranking the plurality of pieces of information to generate a search result based on the total amount of user response associated with the respective category to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs. By using the above technical scheme, a result of more rational ranking of matching information can be displayed to a user when the user performs a search, thus improving experience of the user. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120030091 | Credit Risk Control - A method and a system of credit risk control use different incentive mechanisms for different type of users for post-loan credit risk control. The method classifies the user to one of several different user types based on the user information and a correspondence relationship between the user information and risk levels, and selects an appropriate incentive mechanism for risk control based on the user type. The incentive mechanisms may either be a positive incentive mechanism or a negative incentive mechanism depending on the user type. The incentive mechanisms are performed over a network, and are designed to encourage a user of good loan payment record but to discourage a user of bad loan payment record. The method and the system are particularly suited for risk control of repayment of various kinds of loans which are applied and disbursed over the Internet. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120011431 | Method and System of Retrieving Ajax Web Page Content - The present disclosure describes a method and a system of retrieving Ajax web page content. The method of retrieving Ajax web page content includes: obtaining information of web page codes; retrieving JavaScript information in the information of the web page codes; analyzing the JavaScript information to determine function(s) that include(s) Ajax call(s) in the web page codes; and triggering the determined function(s) that include(s) the Ajax call(s) to obtain web page content generated by the function(s) that include(s) the Ajax call(s). Through analyzing JavaScript information in web page codes, the above technical scheme obtains function(s) that include(s) Ajax call(s) in the web page codes and further triggers the function(s) to obtain web page content generated thereby, thus achieving retrieval of dynamic content in an Ajax web page. Using the above technical scheme, a search engine can collect more complete web page contents and hence provide a better search service to users. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011262 | Method and System of Processing Cookies Across Domains - Method and system of processing cross-domain cookies in order to allow a first website to access a cookie of a second website are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: providing a flash cookie of a first website in a user's local computer; reading an ordinary cookie of a second website that is stored in the user's local computer; and writing the ordinary cookie of the second website into the flash cookie of the first website. Based on this method, it is achievable to access and store cookies across domains in the user's local computer. Accordingly, the method enables e-commerce websites to have a more comprehensive collection of user information to provide more reliable references for the e-commerce websites to analyze user information. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120010920 | Method, Apparatus and System for Visualizing User's Web Page Browsing Behavior - A visual technique for tracking user's webpage browsing behavior is provided. In one aspect, a method includes: gathering data related to the user's mouse clicks; determining a respective number of times the user accessed each section of a plurality of sections of a webpage based on the gathered data; matching each section of the webpage with the respective number of times to establish correlations; and displaying the correlations. A visual mechanism and system for monitoring how users browse the webpage are also described. The disclosed technique will help determine the amount of time and attention a user spends on a particular webpage, and how these correspond to the content of the site. As a result, the user's level of attention to the webpage can be clearly displayed. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20110265071 | Apparatus and Method for Loading and Updating Codes of Cluster-Based Java Application System - The present disclosure discloses embodiments of an apparatus and method for loading codes of cluster-based Java application system. The loading techniques provided by the present disclosure do not need to publish the latest codes to each server in the cluster or restart the Java application in each server of the cluster. The loading techniques only need to update the codes in the codes storage server, such as a SVN server. Each server in the cluster will automatically load the latest codes, thereby improving the usability of the Java cluster system. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110252010 | Method and System of Selecting Word Sequence for Text Written in Language Without Word Boundary Markers - The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus of selecting a word sequence for a text written in a language without word boundary in order to solve the problem of having excessively large computation load when selecting an optimal word sequence in existing technologies. The disclosed method includes: segmenting a segment of the text to obtain different word sequences; determining a common word boundary for the word sequences; and performing optimal word sequence selection for portions of the word sequences prior to the common word boundary. Because optimal word sequence selection is performed for portions of word sequences prior to a common word boundary, shorter independent units can be obtained, thus reducing computation load of word segmentation. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110238730 | Correlated Information Recommendation - Method and apparatus for information recommendation are provided. In one aspect, a method for information recommendation uses correlated information combinations to improve recommendation accuracy. Upon receiving data from a client indicating a visited information type, the method obtains correlated information types related to the visited information type from stored records. The correlated information types providing one or more correlated information combinations each including at least two correlated information types. For each of the one or more correlated information combinations, the method computes a degree of correlation between the correlated information combination and the visited information type. The method selects a target correlated information combination with a satisfying degree of correlation, and recommends the target correlated information combination to the client. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238570 | System of Online Trading Through Intermediary Platform and Methods Thereof - System and methods of conducting an online transaction through an intermediary platform are provided. In one aspect, a system of conducting online transactions comprises an intermediary platform that includes an intermediary platform server and an intermediary platform database. The intermediary platform server includes a synchronous processing unit that receives information of a product from a merchant selling the product causes the information of the product of the merchant to be displayed at a predetermined linked position in a user interface. The intermediary platform server also includes a transaction request processing unit that receives a transaction request to purchase the product from a user, sends the transaction request to the merchant, and receives a transaction result from the merchant. The intermediary platform server further includes an interaction unit that establishes communications with the merchant and the user. The intermediary platform database includes a merchant information storage unit that stores contact information of the merchant and a correlation between the information of the product of the merchant and the merchant. The intermediary platform database also includes a transaction information storage unit that stores information of a transaction, which includes one or more of merchant information, user information, product information, transaction result information of the transaction, or a combination thereof. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110231399 | Clustering Method and System - The present disclosure discloses a method and system for clustering. The method includes: vectorizing a plurality of readable files to obtain a plurality of file vectors corresponding to the multiple readable files; extracting a total characteristic vector based on the file vectors; and clustering the readable files based on a ranking result of a respective similarity degree between the total characteristic vector and each of the file vectors. The present disclosure also provides a method and system for clustering webpages. An application of the methods or systems described in the present disclosure reduces the number of times of comparison of similarity degrees between file vectors, and further reduces the resulting burden on system resources. This advantageously results in reduced usage of CPU and memory, reduced run time of clustering and improved performance of clustering. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231283 | Online Processing for Offshore Business Transactions - A method and system for processing offshore online transaction use an intermediary platform to conduct foreign currency exchange on behalf of a buyer and an offshore seller. The method allows the buyer to purchase a product of an offshore merchant website using a local currency through the intermediary platform. The buyer places an order at the offshore merchant website, which sends an order request to the intermediary platform. The intermediary platform calculates the purchase amount in local currency, and exchanges the local currency amount provided by the user into an equivalent foreign currency amount through a financial platform, and sends a transaction message indicating successful payment to the offshore merchant website to allow shipping of the product. The intermediary platform periodically conducts accounting and profit sharing operations with the offshore merchant website. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110219054 | Method and System for Processing Online Joint Guarantee - A method and a system are disclosed for processing online joint guarantee. After a server receives an application from a user, the server provides various types of joint guarantee grouping to the user for selection. The server creates a joint guarantee group having a unique ID according to the selection of the user, organizes the information of the joint guarantee group into a data packet and sends the data packet to a bank system to be approved. The method potentially improves the success rate of joint guarantee grouping and removes the geographical limitations. Through the Internet, the method makes it possible to join companies of different geographical locations for online joint guarantee. The method also establishes a complete online alert mechanism, and realizes computerized loan risk control to improve the business credit system. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110218989 | Information Search Method and System - The present disclosure provides an information search method and system applicable in an information search system wherein each document has corresponding forward index data to address the issue of low search efficiency suffered by existing information search techniques. In one aspect, the method may include: receiving an inquiry word and obtaining one or more keywords contained in the inquiry word by segmentation; searching one or more documents matching the one or more keywords and forward index data corresponding to the one or more documents through the information search system's inverted index data; and determining an abstract of each of the one or more documents according to a corresponding document's forward index data, and outputting the abstract and information of the one or more documents as a search result. The proposed techniques can increase efficiency of information search and, at the meantime, guarantee accuracy of the search to a certain extent. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110218859 | Method, Apparatus and System for Increasing Website Data Transfer Speed - In one aspect, a method for increasing website data transmission speed comprises: obtaining a characteristics attribute set corresponding to a browsing behavior of a user; obtaining at least one rule corresponding to the characteristics attribute set from a rules database; selecting at least one advertisement corresponding to a scenario stipulated by the at least one rule; placing the at least one advertisement to be presented to the user; and monitoring operations of the user with respect to the placed at least one advertisement. Thus, the update and revolution of the rules database are implemented based on advertisement placement effects in real time. as Advantages achieved include low implementation cost, short period, and quick optimization speed. The present disclosure also discloses an advertisement placement administration apparatus and an advertisement placement administration system. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110213777 | Method and Apparatus of Text Classification - The present disclosure provides a technique of text categorization to simplify and optimize the classification. In one aspect, a method parses a given text into one or more words; determines a word vector in a spherical space model for one of the one or more words, a number of dimensions of the spherical space being equal to a number of categories, each category corresponding to a spherical space category vector; for each category, determines a distance between a sum of word vectors of the one or more words and the respective category vector; and classifies the text into one or more categories with the shortest distance. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus used to implement the method. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110208691 | Accessing Large Collection Object Tables in a Database - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for accessing large object collection tables in a data warehouse, so that input-output complexities are reduced and the performance and responsiveness of the data warehouse are improved. In one aspect, a process may set up a new large object collection table by determining the object identification information of business activities occurring in a business period using the records in a business flow table. A sub-table from the original large object collection table may be generated based on the derived object identification information. The resulting sub-table may be incorporated into a new large object collection table that is partitioned according to business periods. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110191319 | SEARCH QUERY PROCESSING - Providing search results includes: receiving a search query; determining a plurality of preprocessing functions to be performed on the search query, based at least in part on a search label corresponding to the search query; performing the plurality of preprocessing functions on the search query to obtain a plurality preprocessed search queries; generating, based at least in part on precision levels associated with the plurality of preprocessed search queries, a search plan comprising a selected preprocessed search query; and inputting the search plan to the search engine to obtain the search results. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191211 | Image Search Apparatus and Methods Thereof - Embodiments of a method and apparatus of image search are provided. An exemplary method of image search includes: receiving a request and returning a web page, where the returned web page allows uploading an image and adding annotation content for the image; receiving and storing the image and the annotation content for the image; and providing the annotation content for the image as a search index to an image search engine. Using the disclosed method and server, more searches related to information in an image can be provided. Moreover, because more information related to merchandise in an image can be provided to a viewer, it is believed that more online transactions can be facilitated. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110173495 | Method and System for Reliable Intersystem Message Notification - The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for reliable intersystem message notification that can ensure reliable delivery of notification messages. The method includes the following steps: storing notification messages persistently; sending a new stored notification message or a retry notification message; and resending the notification message in an event that there is a failure of message notification. The described method and apparatus support multiple transmission protocols between different systems. The receiving party can reliably receive notification messages without implementing complicated interaction protocols. The present disclosure therefore is applicable for widespread use in the Internet. Moreover, the method and apparatus also supports multiple transaction processing, can be used as an universal business transaction application platform, and at the same time allows flexible expansion of multiple transactions and multiple protocols. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110166987 | Evaluating Loan Access Using Online Business Transaction Data - A method and a loan access evaluation system use a loan applicant's actual business transaction information received from an online business system on which the loan applicant conducts business. In addition to the information of the loan applicant's owner, other general background business information and historical business information of the loan applicant, the method and the system obtain detailed transaction data of the loan applicant on e-commerce systems or platforms and banks, and thus have access to dynamic business data of the applicant for a more reliable loan access appraisal. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110161211 | Real-Time Settling of Payment for Logistics Company - A method and a system provide real-time payment fund settlement of a logistics company using a third-party payment platform, which signs a withholding agreement with the logistics company and a logistics agency and establishes separate payment accounts for the logistics company and the logistics agency. The logistics company sends a withholding instruction to the third-party payment platform upon receiving signature information and goods information sent by the courier after the buyer has made a payment and signed for the acceptance of the goods. After receiving the withholding instruction, the third-party payment platform verifies the withholding instruction based on the withholding agreement, and transfers a fund from the payment account of the logistics agency to the payment account of the logistics company. The disclosed method and system can greatly increase the speed of fund transfer and fund settlement between the logistics company and the logistics agency. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110145146 | Off-Line Account Recharging - A method for off-line account recharging allows recharging of a user account at a simple payment node without sophisticated account interface. The method does not require the user to have an online bank account. The user enters a recharge amount and a mobile device number at the payment node, which sends the entered recharge information to a server where the user account is held. The server generates a recharge code which corresponds to the recharge amount and the mobile device number, and provides the recharge code to the user. The user uses the received recharge code to contact the server and complete the account recharge. The server may perform additional identity verification using the mobile device number and a random challenge code when the user requests to complete the count recharge. The recharge process does not require complex account information to be entered. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110131102 | SECURE MOBILE PAYMENT PROCESSING - A system for processing payment data includes a payer terminal, a recipient terminal, and a payment server. The payer terminal is adapted to return, to the recipient terminal, encrypted payment request data upon reception of the recipient information transmitted from the recipient terminal, wherein the payment request data comprises payer information, recipient information and a payment amount. The recipient terminal is adapted to forward the encrypted payment request data and the payment amount to the payment server. The payment server is adapted to verify the encrypted payment request data and the payment amount, to perform a payment according to a verification result, and to return encrypted payment result data to the recipient terminal. The recipient terminal is further adapted to return the encrypted payment result data to the payer terminal. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110125845 | Method and Apparatus for Sending Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for sending an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problem that there are few parameters to be relied on when a user authenticates a request seeking to establish a social network relationship with the user, the method disclosed by the present disclosure includes: a social network server that, after obtaining an authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to request to establish a social network relationship, modifies the first client's identification information in the first authentication request message to a third client's identification information to obtain a second authentication request message. The third client has a social network relationship with the first client and also has a direct social network relationship with the second client. The second authentication request message is sent to the second client. As the third client's identification information is used as identification information of a sending party in the second authentication request message that is sent to the second client, there will be more parameters for use when the second client verifies the request to establish the social network relationship. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125707 | EFFICIENT DATA BACKFLOW PROCESSING FOR DATA WAREHOUSE - Processing backflow data includes obtaining backflow data from a data warehouse, determining, according to a backflow rule for the backflow data, a respective destination table in a production system for each data item in the backflow data, and sending the data item according to the determined respective destination table in the production system. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125616 | Buffered Bookkeeping - A method and a system use buffered bookkeeping to update an account timely for a user to see the account information without having to wait until the next accounting date. The method records request events to generate a buffer record of the request events for an account having high-volume concurrent transactions, and fetches and processes the buffer record periodically at predetermined time intervals or recursively for bookkeeping of the request events in the account without waiting for the next accounting date. The transaction funds in the account are made available for inquiries and become accessible after only a short period of time upon the occurrence of the transaction. The length of the delay is configurable according to the level of concurrent transactions of the account. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110113101 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - A method and an apparatus for processing an authentication request message in a social network are provided. To improve the inefficiency of existing technology in processing user authentication and request to establish social relationship as well as inadequacy of parameters available for said authentication, the disclosed method includes a social network server detecting an authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client requesting to establish a social relationship with the second client. The social network server obtains information social attributes that are common to the first client and the second client, forwards the authentication request message, and sends the obtained information of common social attributes to the second client. The social attribute information is used by the second client to decide whether or not to authenticate the authentication request message. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113056 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for processing an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problems of the inefficiency in confirming request to establish social relationship by a user and inadequacy of parameter provided for authentication under existing technologies, the present disclosure provides a method. The method includes: receiving, by a social network server, the authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to establish a social relationship with the second client; determining, by the social network server, a relationship chain information indicative of an indirect social network relationship between the first client and the second client; and forwarding, by the social network server, the authentication request message and the obtained relationship chain information to the second client, the relationship chain information being used by the second client to authenticate the authentication request message. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110082860 | Search Method, Apparatus and System - The present disclosure describes a search method, a search apparatus and a search system. The method includes: a data rewriting system that obtains, from a database, one or more search term candidates that are relevant to a present search term. The data rewriting system retrieves properties of the present search term and the one or more search term candidates, where the properties describe respective matching results of the present search term and the one or more search term candidates. Based on the matching results, the data rewriting system determines whether or not the present search term needs to be rewritten, and rewrites the present search term based on the matching results to provide a rewritten present search term if it is determined that the present search term needs to be rewritten. A search engine performs a search based on the rewritten present search term. The disclosed method, apparatus and system avoid the approach of conducting a search based on fixed rules after the present search term is rewritten, thus reducing the probability of having ambiguity in the search process and improving the degree of search accuracy. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110072058 | Method and System for Large Volume Data Processing - Disclosed are a method and a system for large volume data processing for solving the problem of system collapse caused by processing delays resulting from a failure of processing a large volume of data within a scheduled time. The method allocates a server to divide a source file into multiple small files, according to a source file naming scheme, and allocates multiple servers to distributedly process the small files. The allocation of servers can be based on the filenames named according to a file naming scheme. The disclosed method deploys multiple servers to divide and process large data files, thereby maximally improving the processing power of the system and ensuring the system to complete the processing of the files within scheduled times. Furthermore, the system promises good scalability. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110066697 | Promulgating Information on Websites Using Servers - A method uses web servers to promulgate information from one server to another, instead of promulgating the information by the user to each server individually. A first server receives a first request for promulgating web-information from a user, locally promulgates the web-information, and sends a second request to at least one second website server to instruct the second website server to locally promulgate the web-information. The selection of the second server is done according to a preset configuration file which includes a relationship mapping between the first website server and the second website server. The relationship mapping may provide the user information related to the second website server based on the user information related to the first website server. The present disclosure further discloses a communication apparatus and a communication system. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110060734 | Method and Apparatus of Knowledge Base Building - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of knowledge base building to automatically construct a knowledge base. Furthermore, the disclosed techniques can be used to improve the accuracy of that knowledge base. In one aspect, a method acquires a sentence from a webpage using a basic data processing layer of a computing apparatus. The acquired sentence is parsed into words using a data mining layer of the computing apparatus. One or more representative words in a first category of a knowledge base are matched with the words parsed from the acquired sentence. When there is a match between one of the representative words and one of the words parsed from the acquired sentence, a string of words adjacent the matched word in the acquired sentence is added to the first category as a first entry. When matching the words parsed from the acquired sentence with a second entry of a second category of the knowledge base, it is determined whether or not an established correlation exists between the first category and the second category. When it is determined that an established correlation exists between the first category and the second category, a correlation between the first entry of the first category and the second entry of the second category is established. The present disclosure also discloses methods for searching information and computing apparatuses that implement the methods. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110047138 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying Synonyms and Using Synonyms to Search - A method and an apparatus for identifying synonym and utilizing such synonym to conduct search is disclosed. The disclosed method includes: obtaining arbitrary two words to be identified; determining whether a shortest edit distance between the two words less than or equal to an edit distance threshold; determining whether the two words to be identified exist in a preset knowledge database, and if an answer is yes then searching a smallest granularity type with highest weight value for each word in the knowledge database; and if the two word have the same smallest granularity type with highest weight value, then determining such two words are synonyms, or non-synonym otherwise. The disclosed techniques greatly improve accuracy of synonym identification and guarantee effect of synonym identification. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110029619 | File Folder Transmission on Network - Disclosed are a method and a system for transmitting a file folder from the sending end to the receiving end. The system uses a file folder transmission unit at the sending end side to generate a directory structure file of the file folder. The directory structure file may have properties such as the size of the file folder, paths and path lengths of the files in the file folder. The sending end then sends the directory structure file to the receiving end through the file folder transmission unit to allow the system to determine which files in the file folder need to be transmitted. The needed files in the file folder are then transmitted to the receiving end according to the determination. The sending end and the receiving end may communicate using an instant messaging tool. The disclosed method and system allow a faster and more convenient file folder network transmission. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110010374 | Filtering Information Using Targeted Filtering Schemes - A method for filtering user information takes into account not only specific keywords in the user information, but also related user-characteristic data (e.g., user activity data), and allows targeted user characteristics to be determined from multiple aspects of user activities. In one aspect, the disclosed method adopts different filtering schemes for different types of targeted users to improve the recognition accuracy with respect to the target user information. The method determines a suitable filtering scheme using a correspondence relationship between the filtering scheme and keywords and user-characteristic data. The method uses modeling of sample users and multiple candidate filtering schemes to formulate targeted filtering scheme. An apparatus for implementing the method is also disclosed. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100306246 | Method and System for Managing User Information in Instant Messaging Systems - The present disclosure discloses a method for managing user information in an instant messaging system in order to address the problems of increasing system workload, increasing network overhead and deteriorated system performance in existing technologies due to frequent access of user information management server or servers when user information is searched. According to a disclosed method, an access server obtains and stores information of contacts of a logged-in user; the access server notifies user information of the logged-in user to other access servers; the access servers that receive the notification store the user information of the logged-in user upon determining that contact(s) is/are found locally therein; and when the access server needs to obtain the information of the contacts of the user, the access server performs a search either locally or in other access servers. Furthermore, a communication system is also provided. The disclosed method and system are believed to result in greatly reduced frequency of searching user information in the user information management servers, reduced workload of the user information management servers, improved performance of searching user information and reduced network overhead of the system. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100287068 | Online Transaction Method and System Using a Payment Platform and a Logistics Company - The disclosed online transaction method and system uses payment platform acting as an intermediary agent between the merchant and the shipping company to handle the payment. While the payment platform receives payment from the shipping company, the merchant receives payment from the payment platform. The method and system do not require buyers to use the payment method provided by an intermediary transaction platform to make a payment. Instead, the buyer may pay directly to the shipping company. Unlike conventional transaction method based on COD, however, the disclosed online transaction method and system centrally manage a logistics platform or multiple logistics operations run by logistics companies. The merchant does not receive the payment from the logistics company, but rather receive the payment from a centralized payment platform to ensure secure and fast payment. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100241572 | Payment System and Method Using IC Identification Card - A payment system utilizes an IC identification card to identify a user, finds and verifies a bank account of the user. The payment system uses an IC identification card reader to read user identity information which includes a user identification card number. The system encrypts user identity information using a first encryption key and encrypts the user-entered bank account password using a bank encryption key corresponding to a participating bank, and sends the encrypted information to an intermediary platform, which sends a bank transaction request including user identity information, bank account password and transaction amount to the participating bank subsystem. The participating bank subsystem conducts the requested bank transaction with a user bank account, which is determined according to the user identification card number either by the intermediary platform or by the participating bank subsystem based on a mapping relationship between the user identity information and bank accounts. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241510 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Effectiveness of Online Advertisement - A method and a system monitor the effectiveness of an online advertisement with improved accuracy. The method analyzes a request for visiting a target webpage, determines whether the request is from an advertisement website, and extracts from the request a monitored target identifier if the request is from an advertisement website. The method further obtains a user identifier according to the request, and records a tracking data containing the monitored target identifier and the user identifier. Upon occurrence of an advertisement effect monitoring event, the method finds a recorded tracking data containing the monitored target identifier and the user identifier associated with the event, and records an effective data of advertisement effect based on the tracking data and/or information of the advertisement effect monitoring event. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100235758 | Method, System and Apparatus for Sorting Topics within a Group - A method for sorting topics in a user group of instant messaging is disclosed. An instant messaging server receives a user request for creating a topic within a user group, and thereupon creates a corresponding topic group. Upon subsequently receiving from a request for joining the topic, the server adds the requesting user into the corresponding topic group. Upon receiving a message sent from a user of the topic group, the server transmits the message to other users of the same topic group. Using the topic sorting technology in group chatting, the method allows messages to be conveniently categorized for better use by the user, thus reducing the interference from unrelated topics while allowing group discussions. The method helps to improve user experience and maximize the benefit of group chatting, and may also reduce the volume of unnecessary messages sent by the server. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235509 | Method, Equipment and System for Resource Acquisition - A resource acquisition method uses a customer terminal to load a resource list defined in a uniform resource description file, where the resource list contains resource identifications and corresponding path information of the resources required by the customer terminal. The customer terminal obtains the path information of the required resource from the resource list according to the resource identification of the resource, and sends a request message to acquire the resource according to the path information. The customer terminal is thus able to accurately and rapidly obtain the required resources over a network, greatly improving the success rate and work efficiency of resource acquisition. This disclosure also discloses a network system for data communication and communication equipment that utilize the resource acquisition method. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100229026 | Method and Apparatus for Cluster Data Processing - A cluster data processing method and system based on a unique identity control without requiring continuous network connection between the servers in the cluster and an external computer. The cluster sends a first data containing a controlling identity record to the external computer. The controlling identity record includes a unique identity and a control information. A load-balancing device of the cluster receives from the external computer a second data, which contains a controlling identity record corresponding to that of the first data. The cluster routes the second data according to the control information in the controlling identity record of the second data. The disclosed method and system may help avoid the overload problem of server resources and prevent low performance caused by continuous network connection that has to be maintained between the cluster and external server | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228627 | Method, System and Apparatus for Electronic Business Suited for Conventional Retailing - An electronic business method and system suited for conventional retailers are disclosed. A business transaction server receives from a seller an order form of a product, stores the received order form, assigns an order identification to the product, and communicates the order identification to the seller, who advertises the product with the order identification in any desirable manner including conventional advertising venues such as printed materials. The business transaction server receives from a buyer a purchase order containing the order identification and payment information, and notifies the seller to ship the product to the buyer according to the purchase order. The seller can be a conventional retailer and does not have to rely on Internet for advertisement in order to take advantage of electronic business transactions. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100223297 | Data Merging in Distributed Computing - A data merging method for distributed computing uses a configuration file to guide the insertion of computational results obtained by distributed nodes into a database table, and to merge the computational results inserted in the database table. The configuration file is established according to the task splitting conditions of distributed computing. The method uses a data merging server to import and host the configuration file and create a database table corresponding to the configuration file. Each distributed node inserting its distributed computational result into the database table after completing the respective distributed computing task, while the data merging server merges the data in the database table. An interface standard applicable to various uses and various distributed computing tasks may be used such that the user only needs to establish a job-specific configuration file based on the interface standard. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223227 | Statistical Applications in OLTP Environment - The present disclosure provides a method of statistical application in an OLTP environment to reduce the intensive computational load of invoking SQL statements for statistical calculations. The method introduces a time element into statistical records, and use the time element to determine the time status of previously computed statistical records. Upon receiving a query for a statistical record, the system first searches for an existing copy of the statistical record, and checks the time status of the statistical record if found. The system sends the statistical record to the inquirer if the record exists and is unexpired, and invokes an SQL statement to compute the statistical record only if the record does not exist or has expired. The statistical records may be placed in statistical table in a database and/or a cache of an application server. The disclosed strategy may also increase attack resistance of the system. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223188 | Online Payment System and Method - An online payment system uses an electronic check system to make a payment to a merchant on behalf of an online customer. The electronic check system receives a check application request of the customer, creates an electronic check number and a password for the check, outputs the check information to the customer, and stores the check information in the electronic check system. When a merchant system receives an online payment request of the customer, it sends the request to the electronic check system, which then parses out a payment electronic check number and a payment check password from the payment request, verifies the parsed information with the stored check the information, and makes a payment to the merchant. The electronic check system is centralized and shared by multiple merchants. A payment only needs access to the electronic check system, without requiring participation of multiple receipt-acquiring systems of individual merchants. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100174570 | Method and System for Risk Monitoring in Online Business - A method of risk monitoring in online business is disclosed. The method captures parameters of a user request and business data of processing the request by a business processing system; packs the parameters and the business data into an event object; analyzes the event object according to risk monitoring rules; and generates a risk record if a risk is determined to exist in an operation event that produces the business data. The method further determines a risk processing mode according to the risk record and a risk processing configuration, and processes the risk of the operation event in the risk processing mode. Also disclosed is a system for risk monitoring in online business. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100169223 | Payment System and Method Using an IC Identification Card - A payment system utilizes an IC identification card to identify a user, finds and verifies a bank account of the user. The system uses an IC identification card reader to read user identity information, and sends it along with user bank account information to an intermediary platform to be processed. The intermediary platform sends the received user identity information along with the other bank transaction information as part of a bank transaction request to a participating bank subsystem to be processed. The participating bank subsystem conducts the requested bank transaction with a user bank account determined according to the user identification either by the intermediary platform or by the participating bank subsystem based on a mapping relationship between the user identity and bank accounts. The decryption of the user identification information is done either by the IC identification card reader or at the intermediary platform. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100153249 | Making Payment Using Communication Client - Disclosed are a method and a system for making a payment to a third party using a communication client such as a mobile phone. The payment is made through an intermediary platform adapted for establishing communication between the communication client and the third-party subsystem. The intermediary platform receives a call-in request from the communication client, determines whether the communication client has a mobile telephone number, and further determines whether the mobile telephone number has a payment account bound therewith. If affirmative, the intermediary platform accepts a payment request from the communication client, and makes a deduction from the payment account in order to complete the payment. The intermediary platform may also be used to make a payment to the third-party through a network client such as a PC. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100146516 | Distributed Task System and Distributed Task Management Method - A distributed task system has a task transaction server and at least one task server. Instead of being merely passively called by the task transaction server for executing a task, the task server performs self-balancing according to task execution conditions and operation conditions of the task server. The task transaction server receives task requests from the task server, records the execution conditions, and provides feedback to the task server, and the task server executes the task according to the received feedback and the operation conditions of the task server. The task transaction server may determine if the task server can execute the task according to the execution conditions of the task, and feedback to the task server. A self-balancing unit of the task server may further determine whether the task server is busy, and if not busy, trigger a task execution unit of the task server to execute the task. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100088354 | Method and System for Log File Analysis Based on Distributed Computing Network - The present invention discloses a method and a system for log file analysis based on distributed computing network. The method includes: storing user identifiers and related log information into a log file; dividing the log file into target files each including the log information having the same user identifier; separately analyzing the target files to obtain analysis results using at least two nodes; and combining the analysis results of the nodes. The method thereby establishes relationships among various log files through user identifiers, and further analyzes the relationships among the user's accesses to various contents of a website. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100076995 | Method and System of Displaying Related Keywords - A method and a system of displaying related keywords are provided. The method includes: receiving a primary keyword inputted by a user and a request for retrieving keywords related to the primary keyword; recording a frequency of the retrieving request corresponding to the primary keyword; selecting a candidate group of related keywords based on the frequency from the groups of related keywords corresponding to the primary keyword; and displaying the related keywords in the candidate group of related keywords. The system includes: an interface unit, a recording unit, an acquiring unit and a displaying unit. The disclosed method and system retrieve different groups of related keywords based on the frequency of the request for retrieving keywords related to a certain primary keyword, and display the retrieved related keywords in a rotating manner and allow a user to obtain the related keywords in an easier and more complete way. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100058178 | Network-Based Method and Apparatus for Filtering Junk Messages - The present invention discloses a network-based method and system for filtering a junk message. The method includes the following procedures: word-segmenting a target message to obtain characteristic elements within the target message; obtaining probabilities of the characteristic elements in the target message according to a predefined keyword library, the keyword library being updated periodically; and accumulating the probabilities of the characteristic elements in the target message, comparing accumulated probabilities with a predetermined threshold, and concluding the target message is a junk message if the result is greater than the predetermined threshold. Using a predefined keyword library for verification of a target message avoids time delay and system resource waste caused by massive and complicated computations during message verification in existing technologies, thus satisfying the requirement of real-time filtering of junk messages. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20090313685 | Method and System for Instant Messaging - The present invention provides an instant messaging method to establish a corresponding relationship between a browser application and a message port of an instant messaging server; start the browser application to establish a session with the message port of the instant messaging server; and, through the session, send to the instant messaging server an instant message intended to a communication party and receive from the instant messaging server an instant message sent by the communication party. Using the instant messaging server to provide a message port to a browser application enables a user who does not have instant messaging tools installed to do instant messaging with another party which has instant messaging tools installed, by simply starting the browser application. The invention significantly improves the convenience and user participation in instant messaging. Especially in electronic commerce, the present invention increases the extent of instant messaging between sellers and buyers while keeps it quick and easy for buyers, and expedites the electronic transactions. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090300449 | Method and System for Message Retransmission and Intersystem Message Delivery - The present invention discloses a method and a system for resending messages with a minimized number of retries and maximized timeliness of delivering the message to the receiving party. The method sets a retry period for a message that needs to be resent, determines a retry time according to the retry period, and sends the message after the retry time is reached. The retry period increases as the number of retries increases. The method and the system can ensure reliable delivery of notification messages and support many transmission protocols between different systems, does not require the receiving party to implement complicated interaction protocols to reliably receive a notification message, and is suitable for widespread use in the Internet. Moreover, the disclosure supports multiple transaction processing, can be used as a common business transaction application platform, and allows flexible expansion of multiple transactions and multiple protocols. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090144607 | Method and System for Localized Scrolling Table Display in a Webpage - The present invention discloses a method for localized scrolling table display in a webpage. The method includes: dividing a table being displayed into at least a 2×2 array of an upper left table, a lower left table, an upper right table and a lower right table; setting the lower left table and the upper right table to hide portions that are beyond display area; and setting the lower right table to hide portions that are beyond the display area and to include a vertical scrollbar and a horizontal scrollbar. The upper right table and the lower right table are controlled by the horizontal scrollbar, and the lower left table and the lower right table are controlled by the vertical scrollbar. The present invention is able to display a table in a webpage with a localized scrolling display and a partial frozen display, and allows unlimited number of data columns and rows in the webpage and still maintains good readability. This satisfies the need for displaying table of a large amount of data for data comparison, and allows the user to conveniently and freely scroll any cell of the table to the display area to be displayed. | 06-04-2009 |
