Patent ID: 11934394
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by an open platform, a first natural language query statement sent by a user terminal, wherein the first natural language query statement is generated after the user terminal receives a query request described by a user in a natural language;
transforming, by the open platform, the first natural language query statement into a second query statement that is recognizable by at least one third-party content provider;
sending, by the open platform, the second query statement to one or more third-party content providers of the at least one third-party content provider;
receiving, by the open platform, one or more query response messages returned by the one or more third-party content providers according to the second query statement; and
sending, by the open platform, the one or more query response messages to the user terminal;
wherein the open platform receives multiple query response messages returned by multiple third-party content providers; and
wherein the sending, by the open platform, the one or more query response messages to the user terminal comprises:
determining, by the open platform, a matching degree between a query response message returned by each of the multiple third-party content providers and the first natural language query statement; and
sending, by the open platform, the multiple query response messages to the user terminal in descending order of matching degrees between the multiple query response messages and the first natural language query statement, wherein each matching degree comprises at least one of a distance matching degree, a price matching degree, or a product matching degree.