Patent ID: 9563706
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising: receiving one or more pieces of textual annotation content for an image from one or more clients, the one or more pieces of textual annotation content comprising at least a link to a web page associated with merchandise corresponding to the image and an icon for initiating an instant messaging session with a seller of the merchandise; examining a legitimacy of the textual annotation content, the examining including applying a word filter based on a predetermined word lexicon to filter out illegitimate words; storing the one or more pieces of the textual annotation content for the image, wherein the storing the one or more pieces of the textual annotation content includes storing the textual annotation content having a highest score in auxiliary information of the image, wherein the storing the textual annotation content having the highest score in the auxiliary information of the image comprises storing the textual annotation content in a user comments tag in accordance with Exchangeable image file format (Exif) specification, and providing the one or more pieces of textual annotation content as search indices for the image to an image search engine; and ordering the search indices specifically in the database, including establishing reverse indices, wherein a format of question and answer and a scoring rule are organized for the one or more pieces of textual annotation content and the textual annotation content having the highest score corresponds to an answer receiving a highest score from one or more users.