Patent ID: 8504563
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of sorting inquiry results in a search engine, performed by one or more processors configured with computer readable instructions, the method comprising: based on extracted inquiry results matching search conditions of a user, collecting one or more features of a respective inquiry result, the one or more features of the inquiry results including at least a quality factor indicating a quality of the respective inquiry result and one or any combination of the following factors: an active level factor indicating an active level of a supplier relating to the respective inquiry result, an industry factor indicating an industry of the supplier relating to the respective inquiry result, an information click conversion rate and an information feedback conversion rate of the supplier relating to the respective inquiry result, the collecting the quality factor including: using collected factors as the one or more features of the respective inquiry result and conducting feature fitting based on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model to obtain a feature fitting value of the respective inquiry result; and sorting the inquiry results based on relevancy values of the inquiry results, and, for inquiry results having a same or similar relevancy values, sorting the inquiry results in a top-down manner based on feature fitting values of the inquiry results.