CN107437158B

CN107437158B - Data query method, device and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN107437158B
Application number: CN201610525770.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢蔚; 王志杰
Original assignee: Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co Ltd; Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co Ltd; Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2016-05-26
Filing date: 2016-07-05
Publication date: 2021-08-10
Anticipated expiration: 2036-07-05
Also published as: CN107437158A

Abstract

A data query method based on a browser plug-in is provided, which comprises the following steps: analyzing the webpage by using the browser plug-in to acquire a target webpage element, and sending a request for inquiring summary data associated with the target webpage element to the server; receiving a message including summary data from a server, and rendering the summary data by using a browser plug-in so as to display the summary data in a graphical mode; responding to the selection of the user to the graphical summary data, and sending a request for inquiring the selected detailed data to a server side through a browser plug-in; and receiving and displaying the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphical summary data. A data query device based on the browser plug-in is also provided. The invention can realize the inventory monitoring function of the commodities on the E-commerce website through the browser plug-in for inventory monitoring, and display the commodities to merchants and operators in an intuitive mode.

Description

Data query method, device and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of electronic commerce, in particular to a data query method and device based on a browser plug-in.

Background

In the retail industry, most inventory management systems provide inventory polling or monitoring functions. The inventory management system displays the remaining inventory information of the goods to the user in a form or web page. The user finds the abnormality from the stock information and decides the subsequent stock operation by combining with other information of the commodity.

In the prior art, the inventory monitoring in the inventory management system is separated from the E-commerce website in operation, so that the user is not very convenient to carry out the inventory monitoring. As shown in fig. 1, there is a screen shot diagram showing a product stock in a table or a web page in the prior art, when a user needs data, the user needs to read the desired number from the screen. Obviously, the display mode is not intuitive enough, and the user has difficulty in judging what inventory operation should be made from the table. Because the user cannot intuitively know the display position of the commodity in the website, the current selling price, the relation with the search keyword and the like.

Browser plug-ins are becoming popular in the internet as a new development technology, and with the rise of e-commerce websites in recent years, various browser plug-ins such as price comparison and ticket snatching are becoming popular. In view of the above, the present invention is proposed, and through the browser plug-in, we can directly present the inventory information on the web page commonly used by the user in an intuitive manner.

Disclosure of Invention

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data query method based on a browser plug-in, including: analyzing the webpage by using the browser plug-in to acquire a target webpage element, and sending a request for inquiring summary data associated with the target webpage element to the server; receiving a message including summary data from a server, and rendering the summary data by using a browser plug-in so as to display the summary data in a graphical mode; responding to the selection of the user to the graphical summary data, and sending a request for inquiring the selected detailed data to a server side through a browser plug-in; and receiving and displaying the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphical summary data.

In one embodiment, the target web page element may be a merchandise tag and the summary data may be a merchandise inventory profile.

In one embodiment, the detailed data may include inventory of the goods across regions and expected time to be available for sale.

In one embodiment, the data query method may further include acquiring the target web page element using a Document Object Model (DOM).

In one embodiment, the data query method may further display the summary data graphically including displaying a product inventory profile in the form of an inventory progress bar.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a data query apparatus based on a browser plug-in, including: the summary data request unit is configured to analyze the webpage by using the browser plug-in to acquire a target webpage element and send a request for inquiring summary data associated with the target webpage element to the server; a summary data display unit configured to receive a message including summary data from a server, render the summary data using a browser plug-in, and display the summary data in a graphical manner; the detailed data request unit is configured to respond to the selection of the graphical summary data by the user, and send a request for inquiring the selected detailed data to the server through the browser plug-in; and a detailed data display unit configured to receive and display the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphic summary data.

In one embodiment, the summary data request unit may be further configured to obtain the target web page element using a document object model, DOM.

In one embodiment, wherein the summary data display unit may be further configured to display the product inventory profile in the form of an inventory progress bar.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a data query apparatus based on a browser plug-in, including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to perform the data query method as described above based on instructions stored in the memory.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the data query method as described above.

The invention can realize the inventory monitoring function of the commodities on the E-commerce website through the browser plug-in for inventory monitoring, and display the commodities to merchants and operators in an intuitive mode. The merchant and the steering hand always stay at the e-commerce website to pay attention to the information such as the position, evaluation, price and the like of the commodity, so that the merchant and the steering hand can be helped to monitor the inventory condition of the commodity more conveniently while finishing basic work, and the working efficiency is improved.

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Other details, aspects, and advantages of the disclosure will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying exemplary drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a prior art screen shot showing inventory of goods in a table or web page;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating data interaction based on a browser plug-in according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a browser plug-in based data query method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a data query device based on a browser plug-in according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows a screen shot showing inventory of items through a browser plug-in according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The following description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, including various details of the embodiments of the invention to facilitate understanding, should be construed as merely illustrative. Accordingly, those skilled in the art will recognize that various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments described herein without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.

Fig. 1 shows a screen shot of a prior art showing inventory of goods in a table or web page. The inventory monitoring and the e-commerce website are separated in operation, the display mode is not visual, and the effect is poor.

Specifically, the table shows logistics-related data of a specific commodity in the whole country and in various places (such as shanghai, etc.), including stock in stock, available stock, number of orders available, inward allotment in transit, inward allotment, yesterday sales, 7-day sales, monthly sales, 14-day sales, 28-day sales, 7/28 sales, 60-day sales, 90-day sales, and saleable days.

Generally speaking, the user can obtain the desired information from such a form and take corresponding action. Then, the inventory monitoring is based on a background and is completed manually, so that the efficiency is low and the inventory monitoring is not intuitive enough. The invention provides a technical scheme for visually monitoring commodity inventory in a foreground (such as an e-commerce website) so as to solve the defects.

The DOM parsing is explained first here. The DOM is fully called Document Object Model, the electronic Document Object Model. In an application, a DOM-based XML parser converts an XML document into a set of object models (generally called DOM trees), and the application performs operations on XML document data by operating on the object models. Through the DOM interface, an application can access any part of data in an XML document at any time, and therefore, this mechanism using the DOM interface is also referred to as a random access mechanism.

The DOM interface provides a way to access XML document information through hierarchical object models that form a tree of nodes according to the document structure of XML. Regardless of the type of information described in an XML document, even if tabulated data, a list of items, or a document, the model generated using the DOM is in the form of a tree of nodes. That is, the DOM enforces the use of a tree model to access information in XML documents. This description is quite efficient since XML is inherently a hierarchical structure.

The random access mode provided by the DOM tree brings great flexibility to the development of an application program, and the content in the whole XML document can be controlled arbitrarily. However, because the DOM parser converts the entire XML document into a DOM tree and stores the DOM tree in memory, the DOM parser has a wide range of applications because the idea of the tree structure used by the DOM parser matches the structure of the XML document and because of the convenience of random access.

For the development of XML application, DOM is an objectified XML data interface, a standard interface specification which is independent of language and platform. It defines the logical structure of HTML and XML documents, and provides a method for accessing and processing HTML and XML documents. Using DOM, a program developer can dynamically create documents, traverse document structures, add, modify, delete document content, change the way a document is displayed, and so forth. It can be said that documents represent data, and the DOM represents how to process the data. Applications to the DOM are encountered wherever XML is available, whether in the browser or outside the browser, whether on the server or on the client.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating data interaction based on a browser plug-in according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2, the browser plug-in performs DOM parsing on the specified web page, and uses the probe to capture the target web page element (taking kyoto as an example, href in the target web page element is similar to < a > element of item.

And after the user clicks the Beijing east webpage, refreshing the webpage and loading the browser plug-in. The browser plug-in starts working, DOM is carried out on the appointed webpage, all the target elements are found, and the DOM sends corresponding commodity details to the plug-in. And then the browser plug-in sends a request for inquiring detailed inventory summarization of commodities in batches to the server. The server receives the request of the plug-in, then requests the inventory general view of the goods from the inventory management system, and after receiving the inventory general view of the goods from the inventory management system, the server processes the goods and returns the goods to the plug-in. After the browser plug-in obtains the inventory profile, the browser plug-in performs batch rendering on the DOM of the webpage, and displays the inventory profile in a graphical mode (such as an inventory progress bar). Thus, the user can visually see the inventory overview of all the goods in the web page.

If the user is interested in a particular item and wants to further understand the inventory details, e.g., the inventory of the particular item at various distribution centers, recent sales, number of available sales, etc., as shown in FIG. 1, the user may select (e.g., click on their inventory progress bar) the item. At this time, in response to the selection, the browser plug-in sends a request for inquiring detailed inventory information of the specified goods to the server. And after receiving the request, the server forwards the request to the inventory management system to inquire the detailed inventory information of the specified commodity, and returns the detailed inventory information to the browser plug-in after the detailed inventory information is obtained. The browser plug-in then renders the detailed inventory information for the specified item so that the user can see the detailed inventory information for the specified item in the web page. Also, detailed inventory information of a specified product may be displayed near the inventory progress bar of the product.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a browser plug-in based data query method 300 according to an embodiment of the invention.

The method 300 includes step 301, parsing the web page with the browser plug-in to obtain the target web page elements, and sending a request to the server for querying summary data associated with all the target web page elements. In the present invention, the target web page element may be a goods tag, the summary data may be a goods inventory profile, and the target web page element may be acquired using a document object model DOM.

In step 302, a message including summary data is received from a server, and the summary data is rendered using a browser plug-in to display the summary data in a graphical manner. Preferably, the product inventory profile may be displayed in the form of an inventory progress bar. In this way, the user can visually see the inventory profile of all the items on a web page (e.g., the web page of an e-commerce website).

If the user is interested in a particular good, that good may be selected. The method 300 further comprises, in step 303, in response to a user selection of graphical summary data, sending a request to the server via the browser plug-in for querying the selected detailed data. Preferably, the detailed data may include inventory of the goods across regions and expected time to be available for sale.

The method 300 may further include, at step 304, receiving and displaying the detailed data proximate to corresponding graphical summary data (e.g., inventory progress bar).

Fig. 4 shows a data query apparatus 400 based on a browser plug-in according to an embodiment of the present invention. The data query apparatus 400 includes a summary data request unit 401, a summary data display unit 402, a detailed data request unit 403, and a detailed data display unit 404.

The summary data request unit 401 is configured to parse the web page using the browser plug-in to obtain the target web page elements, and send a request to the server for querying the summary data associated with all the target web page elements. The summary data display unit 402 is configured to receive a message including summary data from a server, render the summary data using a browser plug-in, and display the summary data in a graphical manner. The detailed data requesting unit 403 is configured to send a request for querying the selected detailed data to the server via the browser plug-in response to a selection of the graphical summary data by the user. The detailed data display unit 404 is configured to receive and display the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphical summary data.

Preferably, the target web page element may be a merchandise tag and the summary data may be a merchandise inventory profile.

Preferably, the detailed data may include inventory of the goods in various places and expected time to be available for sale.

Preferably, the summary data requesting unit may be further configured to acquire the target web page element using a document object model DOM.

Preferably, the summary data display unit may be further configured to display the product inventory profile in the form of an inventory progress bar.

FIG. 5 shows a screen shot showing inventory of items through a browser plug-in according to the present invention. The page shown is a merchandise display page that merchants and turners often view on a website. The page includes information such as the placement position, price and picture of the commodity.

By means of the browser plug-in provided by the user, information strips summarizing the remaining stock can be directly added into the pictures. Thus, the user can easily monitor the stock condition of each commodity. For an item with insufficient inventory, for example, a third item (selling price 5.80), the user can further know the detailed remaining inventory quantity of the item in each area and how many days of sales the remaining inventory can support by selecting the item and using the browser plug-in. At this time, the relevant stock operation may also be displayed near the product.

Therefore, the inventory monitoring function of the commodities can be realized on the E-commerce website through the browser plug-in for inventory monitoring. The merchant and the disc manipulator always stay at the e-commerce website to pay attention to the information such as the position, evaluation, price and the like of the commodity, so that the merchant and the disc manipulator can be helped to monitor the inventory condition of the commodity more conveniently while finishing basic work, and the working efficiency is improved.

The foregoing detailed description has set forth numerous embodiments of the inspection method and system via the use of schematics, flowcharts, and/or examples. Where such diagrams, flowcharts, and/or examples contain one or more functions and/or operations, it will be understood by those within the art that each function and/or operation within such diagrams, flowcharts, or examples can be implemented, individually and/or collectively, by a wide range of structures, hardware, software, firmware, or virtually any combination thereof. In one embodiment, portions of the subject matter described by embodiments of the invention may be implemented by Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), or other integrated formats. However, those skilled in the art will recognize that some aspects of the embodiments disclosed herein, in whole or in part, can be equivalently implemented in integrated circuits, as one or more computer programs running on one or more computers (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more computer systems), as one or more programs running on one or more processors (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more microprocessors), as firmware, or as virtually any combination thereof, and that designing the circuitry and/or writing the code for the software and or firmware would be well within the skill of one of skill in the art in light of this disclosure. In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mechanisms of the subject matter described herein are capable of being distributed as a program product in a variety of forms, and that an illustrative embodiment of the subject matter described herein applies regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media used to actually carry out the distribution. Examples of signal bearing media include, but are not limited to: recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, Compact Disks (CDs), Digital Versatile Disks (DVDs), digital tape, computer memory, etc.; and a transmission type medium such as a digital and/or an analog communication medium (e.g., a fiber optic cable, a waveguide, a wired communications link, a wireless communication link, etc.).

While the present invention has been described with reference to several exemplary embodiments, it is understood that the terminology used is intended to be in the nature of words of description and illustration, rather than of limitation. As the present invention may be embodied in several forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, it should also be understood that the above-described embodiments are not limited by any of the details of the foregoing description, but rather should be construed broadly within its spirit and scope as defined in the appended claims, and therefore all changes and modifications that fall within the meets and bounds of the claims, or equivalences of such meets and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims.

It is to be noted that the foregoing is only illustrative of the preferred embodiments and principles of the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein. Numerous obvious variations, adaptations and substitutions will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A data query method based on browser plug-ins comprises the following steps:

analyzing the webpage by using the browser plug-in to obtain target webpage elements, and sending a request for inquiring summary data associated with all the target webpage elements to the server;

receiving a message comprising summary data from a server, and rendering the summary data by using a browser plug-in so as to display the summary data in a graphical mode to visually display summary data information associated with all target webpage elements on the webpage to a user;

responding to the selection of the user for the graphical summary data, and sending a request for inquiring the selected detailed data to a server side through a browser plug-in; and

receiving and displaying the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphical summary data;

wherein the target web page element is a merchandise tag and the summary data is a merchandise inventory profile.

2. The data query method according to claim 1, wherein the detailed data includes stock conditions of the goods in various places and predicted time available for sale.

3. The data query method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a target web page element using a Document Object Model (DOM).

4. The data query method of claim 1, wherein graphically displaying the summary data comprises displaying a product inventory profile in the form of an inventory progress bar.

5. A data query device based on browser plug-ins comprises:

the summary data request unit is configured to analyze the webpage by using the browser plug-in to acquire target webpage elements and send a request for inquiring summary data associated with all the target webpage elements to the server;

a summary data display unit configured to receive a message including summary data from a server, render the summary data using a browser plug-in to display the summary data in a graphical manner to visually display summary data information associated with all target web page elements on the web page to a user;

a detailed data request unit configured to respond to the selection of the graphical summary data by the user, and send a request for inquiring the selected detailed data to a server through the browser plug-in; and

a detailed data display unit configured to receive and display the detailed data in the vicinity of the corresponding graphic summary data;

6. The data query device of claim 5, wherein the detailed data includes inventory status of the goods at various locations and expected time to be available for sale.

7. The data querying device according to claim 5, wherein the summary data requesting unit is further configured to retrieve the target web page element using a document object model, DOM.

8. The data query device of claim 5, wherein the summary data display unit is further configured to display a product inventory profile in the form of an inventory progress bar.

9. A data query device based on browser plug-ins comprises:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to perform the data query method of any of claims 1-4 based on instructions stored in the memory.

10. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the data query method of any one of claims 1 to 4.