Patent Document ID: 8504563
Application ID: 13262611
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
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: obtaining one or more quality indicators of the respective inquiry result according to statistics of information of a database, the one or more quality indicators including one or any combination of: a completion rate of information including a ratio of a number of filled fields to a number of fillable fields of the respective inquiry result, a completion rate of attributes including a ratio of a number of filled attributes to a number of fillable attributes of the respective inquiry result, and a completion rate of detailed description including a pre-set value based on a number of words included in a description of the respective inquiry result; and conducting a linear fitting of the one or more quality indicators to obtain the quality factor; 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.