Method and system for providing object information on the internet

US8903821B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Alibaba Group Holding Limited · KY

Inventors

• Ping Wang · Sammamish, US
• Xu Qiang Yue · Hangzhou City, CN
• Chen Zhu · Lo Wu, CN
• Gan Wu · Houston, US
• Wei Hua · Hangzhou City, CN
• Jia Wang · Ningbo City, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 2, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Providing object information on the Internet includes configuring a plurality of front-end categories for a plurality of network objects and a plurality of screening conditions for screening the plurality of network objects, where each of the plurality of screening conditions uniquely corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of the front-end categories. Providing object information further includes receiving object information pertaining to a network object, the object information including a screening condition for the network object; storing the object information in a back-end category, determining a front-end category to which the network object belongs, according to the screening condition and storing correlation information of the object and the front-end category, wherein the back-end category is separate from and different than the front-end category.