WO2014082398A1

WO2014082398A1 - Multi-platform application searching method and server

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Publication number: WO2014082398A1
Application number: PCT/CN2013/072291
Authority: WO
Inventors: 贾凌
Original assignee: 北京网秦天下科技有限公司
Priority date: 2012-11-30
Filing date: 2013-03-07
Publication date: 2014-06-05
Also published as: CN103020188A

Abstract

The present invention provides a multi-platform application searching method (100) comprising: collecting links of one or more applications from multiple platforms according to search configuration (S110); for each link of the one or more applications, extracting and storing information related to corresponding applications from corresponding web pages (S120); and excluding and deleting repeated information according to the extracted information related to the applications (S130). A server (200) is further provided for implementing the multi-platform application searching method.

Description

Multi-platform application search method and monthly server

The present invention relates to the field of network information, and more particularly to a multi-platform application search method and a server for implementing the above multi-platform application search method. Background technique

At present, the app store has become an indispensable application promotion sales channel for various mobile terminal operating platforms (eg, iOS, Android, Windows Mobi le, Symbian, etc.). Users of mobile terminals can search for and find the applications (applications) they need by visiting the app store for paid downloads or free downloads. Not only do various operating platforms have their own app stores, but many sites (eg, Amazon, Goog le, App le, etc.) also have their own independent app stores. This brings great inconvenience to the user's search and use, and the user's search efficiency is low. Summary of the invention

The present invention provides a multi-platform application search method and a server for implementing the above multi-platform application search method. With the invention, the user can search all application platforms (including various operating platforms, websites, etc.) at one time, which greatly improves the user's search efficiency. Specifically, according to a first aspect of the present invention, a multi-platform application search method is provided, including: collecting, according to a search configuration, a link of one or more applications on a plurality of platforms; for the one or more Each of the links of the applications extracts and saves information related to the corresponding application from the corresponding webpage; and excludes and deletes the duplicated information according to the extracted information related to the application. The search configuration may include seed site information of each of the plurality of platforms, and the collection is collected by the crawler program based on the seed site information.

The information related to the application may include one or more of the following: a download address of the application, a name of the application, an ID of the application, version information of the application, the a category of the application, an update date of the application, language information of the application, developer information of the application, the application The installation file name, the installation file size of the application, the price information of the application, and the operating system requirements of the application. In this case, you can exclude and remove duplicate updates by comparing the application's download address with the application's installation file name, or by comparing the application's download address, the application's installation file name, and the application's version information. Information with an earlier date.

According to some embodiments, the multi-platform application search method may further include: retrieving and returning information of an application that matches the search keyword according to the input search keyword. In addition, the multi-platform application search method may further include: selecting an application according to the input selection instruction; performing at least one of the following operations on the selected application according to the input operation instruction: blacklist configuration, whitelist configuration, Application distribution, application notifications.

According to still other embodiments, the multi-platform application search method may further include: listening to one or more of the plurality of platforms to detect an update of an application; when detecting an update of the application, installing to the installation The mobile terminal of the application sends an update notification. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a multi-platform application search server is provided, comprising: a link collection unit, configured to collect links of one or more applications on a plurality of platforms according to a search configuration; and an information extraction unit And for extracting and saving information related to the corresponding application from the corresponding webpage for each of the links of the one or more applications; and applying a weighting unit for extracting the application according to the application Program-related information that excludes and removes duplicate information. The search configuration may include seed site information of each of the plurality of platforms, and the link collection unit collects the link through a crawler program with the seed site information as a starting point.

The information related to the application may include one or more of the following: a download address of the application, a name of the application, an ID of the application, version information of the application, the a category of the application, an update date of the application, language information of the application, developer information of the application, an installation file name of the application, an installation file size of the application, The price information of the application, the operating system requirements of the application. In this case, the application load unit can compare the download address of the application with the installation file name of the application, or by comparing the download address of the application, the installation file name of the application, and the application. Version information, excluding and deleting information that is older than the duplicate update date.

According to some embodiments, the multi-platform application search server may further include: an application retrieval unit, configured to retrieve and return information of an application matching the search keyword according to the input search keyword. In addition, the multi-platform application search server may further include: an application operation unit, configured to select an application according to the input selection instruction, and perform at least one of the following operations on the selected application according to the input operation instruction: List configuration, whitelist configuration, application distribution, application notifications.

According to some embodiments, the multi-platform application search server may further include: an application update unit, configured to monitor one or more of the plurality of platforms to detect an update of the application, when the application is detected When updating, an update notification is sent to the mobile terminal that has installed the application. With the invention, the user can search all application platforms (including various operation platforms, websites, etc.) at one time, which greatly improves the search efficiency of the user. In addition, the user can manage the installation of the application in the mobile terminal through the unified platform provided by the present invention, and provides an efficient multi-platform, multi-device mobile terminal application search system. DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from

1 is a schematic diagram showing an application scenario of a multi-platform application search system 1000 in accordance with the present invention.

2 is a flow diagram showing a multi-platform application search method 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a multi-platform application search server 200 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an application web page 400.

In all the drawings of the present invention, the same or similar structures are identified by the same or similar reference numerals. detailed description

The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the details and functions that are not necessary for the present invention are omitted in the description to avoid confusion of the understanding of the present invention. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail by taking the scenario in which the present invention is applied to a wireless mobile communication system as an example. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention can also be applied to a fixed communication system, a wired communication system, or an arbitrary hybrid structure applied to a wireless mobile communication system, a fixed communication system, a wired communication system, or the like. In the case of a mobile communication system, the present invention is not limited to the specific communication protocols of the respective mobile communication terminals involved, and may include, but is not limited to, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G networks, WCDMA, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA systems, etc. The mobile terminal can use the same communication protocol or use different communication protocols. The present invention is not limited to a specific operating system of a mobile terminal, and may include, but is not limited to, iOS, Windows Mob, Le, Symbian, Android, etc. Different mobile terminals may use the same operating system, or may use different operating systems. . 1 is a schematic diagram showing an application scenario of a multi-platform application search system 1000 in accordance with the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the multi-platform application search system 1000 can include a mobile terminal 300, a multi-platform application search server (server) 200, and a plurality of platform servers (platform A, platform B platform N). A plurality of platform servers (Platform A, Platform B Platform N) are connected to the server 200 via the communication network 1500. The mobile terminal 300 can also be connected to the server 200 via the communication network 1500. It should be noted that the communication network 1500 is merely an example, and the server 200 may be connected to a plurality of platform servers and mobile terminals 300 through communication networks that are identical, partially identical, or completely different from each other. Further, the mobile terminal 300 is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention can also be implemented by other portable or non-portable communication terminals. The user A of the mobile terminal 300 can install the client 310 on the mobile terminal 300 to access the server 200 through the client 310. User A can also access server 200 through browser 310 already installed on mobile terminal 300. The server 200 provides a unified multi-platform application search interface for User A. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, a user input box and a search button are provided in the form of a browser or a client window.

2 is a flow chart showing a multi-platform application search method 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the multi-platform application search method 100 may include steps S110, S120, S130, S140, S150, S152, S154, S156, S158, S160, and S170, wherein steps S110, S120, and S130 constitute an application information collection branch, and steps S140, S150, S152, S154, S156, and S158 constitute an application search. And the operation branch, steps S160, S170 constitute an application update branch. According to the present invention, the application information collection branch, the application search and operation branches, and the application update branch may be executed separately or in any combination, and are not limited to the specific operation sequence shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a multi-platform application search server 200 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal 200 may include a link collection unit 210, an information extraction unit 220, an application deduplication unit 230, an application retrieval unit 240, an application operation unit 250, an application update unit 260, and a database 270. The link collection unit 210 is used for communication between the server 200 and a plurality of platform servers (platform A, platform B platform N), and collects links of one or more applications on multiple platforms. The information extracting unit 220 is configured to obtain a corresponding webpage (for example, FIG. 4) according to the collected links, extract information related to the corresponding application from the webpage, and store the extracted information in the database 270. . The application deduplication unit 230 is configured to detect whether there is a duplication in the information stored in the database 270, and to exclude and delete the duplicated information. The application retrieval unit 240 is configured to retrieve from the database 270 and return an application matching the search keyword according to a search keyword input by the user (for example, the user A) through the mobile terminal 300 (browser or client 310). information. The application operating unit 250 is configured to select an application according to a selection instruction input by the user (for example, the user A) through the mobile terminal 300 (browser or client 310), and select the application according to the input operation instruction. Perform the appropriate action. In addition, the application update unit 260 can listen to one or more of the plurality of platforms, and query the database 270 to detect an update of the application, when an update of the application is detected, to the installed application. The mobile terminal (for example, the mobile terminal 300 or the client 310) issues an update notification. As an example, a separate database 270 is included in the structure of the server 200 shown in FIG. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the extracted application-related information may be stored in the information extraction unit 220 or the application deduplication unit 230, and the other units communicate with the information extraction unit 220 or the application deduplication unit 230. Instead of having to include a separate database 270. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an application web page 400. As shown in FIG. 4, the application web page 400 can include application description information 410 and application presentation information 420. It should be noted that the present invention does not limit the specific layout and content of the application description information 410 and the application presentation information 420 in the webpage 400, and may use the left and right layout as shown in FIG. 4, or may use the upper and lower layout or any other For a suitable layout, the content of the application description information 410 may be text content, or may be table content or other suitable content, and the application presentation information 420 may be picture content, animated content, video content, or other suitable content. The multi-platform application search method 100 and the multi-platform application search server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, and 4. In step S110, the link collection unit 210 of the server 200 collects links of one or more applications on a plurality of platform servers (platform A, platform B platform N) according to the search configuration. The search configuration may be pre-assigned by an administrator and may include seed site information for each of the plurality of platforms. The link collection unit 210 may use the crawler program to collect information based on the seed site information.

For example, in the Apple (China) App Store, the seed site information is itunes.apple.com/cn. A crawler can collect links to some or all of the applications under the seed site. For example, a crawler can collect the following information:

In step S120, the information extracting unit 220 of the server 200 extracts information related to the corresponding application from the corresponding web page 400 for each link of the application. The information related to the application may include one or more of the following: download address, name, ID, version information, category, update date, language information, developer information, installation file name, installation file size, Price information, operating system requirements.

Still taking the above link as an example, the displayed webpage is as shown in the webpage 400, and the application description information 410 is included on the left side of the webpage, and the application display is included on the right side of the webpage 400. Information 420. The information extracting unit 220 is available from the application description information 410: Download address https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/ AAA-hd/idl23?mt=8 Name App l ica t ion AAA HD

ID 123

Version Information 1. 0. 15

Category life

Updated May 8, 2012

Language information

Developer Information AAA

Installation file name AAA_HD. 1. 0. 15. apk

Installation file size 10. 0 MB

Price information free

Operating system requirements iOS 3. 2 or higher

The information extracting unit 220 can save the extracted application-related information in the database 270.

In step S130, the application deduplication unit 230 of the server 200 excludes and deletes the duplicated information based on the extracted information related to the application. Specifically, the application deduplication unit 230 can detect whether there is a duplication in the information stored in the database 270, and exclude and delete the duplicated information. As an embodiment, the application deduplication unit 230 may exclude the application by comparing the download address of the application with the installation file name of the application, or by comparing the download address of the application, the installation file name of the application, and the version information of the application. Delete duplicate information (for example, delete information with an earlier update date). For example, in the Apple (China) App Store, three "App ica t ion AAA HD" applications are collected. The installation file name and version information of the application are as follows:

Furthermore, the download addresses of all three applications contain the same i or name information "itunes.apple.com/cn". Thus, depending on the installation file name, or based on the installation file name and version information, It is considered that the application 1 and the application 3 are duplicated, and the related information of the duplicate application 1 and the one of the application 3 whose update date is earlier is excluded and deleted from the database 270.

However, if an application with the same name and version is found on a different platform or website, the applications are not considered duplicated and are not deleted from database 270. For example, to continue the above example, on the Amazon website, another "App li ca t ion AAA HD" application is collected. The installation file name and version information of the application are as follows:

Then, since the i or name information included in the application 4 is "amazon.com", the application 4 is not considered to be duplicated with the application 1 or the application 3, and is not deleted from the database 270. According to the above steps S110 ~ S130, a multi-platform application database can be created in the database 270, and information of multiple applications on multiple platform servers (platform A, platform B platform N) is included. Thereby, a unified search for these applications can be performed, which greatly improves the search efficiency of the user. According to some embodiments, User A may enter a keyword of the application to be searched through the mobile terminal 300 (browser or client 310). The mobile terminal 300 (browser or client 310) sends the keyword to the server 200. In step S140, the application retrieval unit 240 of the server 200 retrieves the database 270 based on the received search key, and returns information of the application matching the search keyword to the mobile terminal 300 (browser or client 310). User A can further operate on the search results. For example, User A can select an application and perform a series of operations such as blacklist configuration, whitelist configuration, application distribution, and application distribution. Of course, the selection and operation of the application can also be done by the server 200 according to pre-set conditions (eg, if the application is downloaded by the mobile terminal (eg, the mobile terminal 300) and then by the mobile terminal (eg, the mobile terminal) 300) >3⁄4 is marked with a virus, then the server 200 automatically adds the application to the blacklist). The application operating unit 250 of the server 200 may select an application according to the input selection instruction (step S150), and perform a corresponding operation on the selected application according to the input operation instruction: blacklist configuration (step S152), whitelist Configuration (step S154), application distribution (step S156), Application notification (step S158). The present invention is not limited to the specific operation of the application, and the details of the various specific operations are not described herein for the sake of clarity. According to further embodiments, the server 200 can listen for updates to the application and send notifications to the mobile terminal 300 that has not updated the application. Specifically, in step S160, the application update unit 260 of the server 200 listens to a plurality of platform servers (platform A, platform B platform N) to detect an update of the application. When the update of the application is detected, the application update unit 260 issues an update notification to the mobile terminal that has installed the application in step S170. The delivery of the update notification can be set by the administrator of the server 200. For example, it can be set according to the version information of the application. H is not an old version of 1. 0. 15 , when listening to the new version 1. 0. 16, you can prompt the administrator of the server 200, the administrator manually determines whether to issue an update notification; and is listening to the new version 1. 1. At 0, the administrator of the server 200 is not prompted to automatically issue an update notification. Alternatively, when the new version 1. 0. 16 is monitored, the notification of the installation is issued (whether or not the installation is determined by the user of the mobile terminal); and when the new version 1. 1. 0 is monitored, the installation notification is issued. (Users of mobile terminals can only choose to install), or install directly (users who do not prompt the mobile terminal;).

The invention has thus far been described in connection with the preferred embodiments. It will be appreciated that various other changes, substitutions and additions may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but by the appended claims.

Claims

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1. A multi-platform application search method (100), comprising:

Collecting links of one or more applications on multiple platforms according to the search configuration (S110);

Extracting and saving information related to the corresponding application from the corresponding web page for each of the links of the one or more applications (S120);

Exclude and delete duplicate letters, packages, and information based on the extracted application-related information

(S130).

2. The multi-platform application search method (100) according to claim 1, wherein the search configuration includes seed site information of each of the plurality of platforms, and the collecting (S110) is seed site information As a starting point, collected by the crawler program.

The multi-platform application search method (100) according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the information related to the application comprises one or more of the following: a download address of the application, the application Name, an ID of the application, version information of the application, a category of the application, an update date of the application, language information of the application, developer information of the application, The installation file name of the application, the installation file size of the application, the price information of the application, and the operating system requirements of the application.

4. The multi-platform application search method (100) according to claim 3, wherein by comparing the download address of the application with the installation file name of the application, or by comparing the download address of the application, the installation file name of the application, and The version information of the application, excluding and deleting the information of the earlier update date (S130).

The multi-platform application search method (100) according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

Based on the input search keyword, information of the application matching the search keyword is retrieved and returned (S140).

6. The multi-platform application search method (100) according to claim 5, further comprising: selecting an application according to the input selection instruction (S150);

Perform at least one of the following operations on the selected application according to the input operation instruction Work: Blacklist configuration, whitelist configuration, application distribution, application notifications (S152, S154, S156, S158).

7. The multi-platform application search method (100) according to claim 1, further comprising: listening to one or more of the plurality of platforms to detect an update of an application

(S160);

When an update of the application is detected, an update notification is issued to the mobile terminal that has installed the application (S170).

8. A multi-platform application search server (200) comprising:

a link collection unit (210) for collecting links of one or more applications on multiple platforms according to a search configuration;

An information extracting unit (220), configured to extract and save information related to the corresponding application from the corresponding webpage for each of the links of the one or more applications;

The application weight unit (230) is configured to exclude and delete duplicate information according to the extracted information related to the application.

9. The multi-platform application search server (200) of claim 8, wherein the search configuration comprises seed site information for each of the plurality of platforms, and the link collection unit (210) is a seed site The information is the starting point, and the link is collected by the crawler program.

10. The multi-platform application search server (200) according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the information related to the application comprises one or more of the following: a download address of the application, the application Name, an ID of the application, version information of the application, a category of the application, an update date of the application, language information of the application, developer information of the application, The installation file name of the application, the installation file size of the application, the price information of the application, and the operating system requirements of the application.

11. The multi-platform application search server (200) according to claim 10, wherein the application deduplication unit (230) compares the download address of the application with the installation file name of the application, or by comparing the download of the application The address, the installation file name of the application, and the version information of the application, excluding and deleting information that is older than the duplicate update date.

The multi-platform application search server (200) according to any one of claims 8 to 11, further comprising:

The application retrieval unit (240) is configured to retrieve and return information of the application matching the search keyword according to the input search keyword.

13. The multi-platform application search server (200) of claim 12, further comprising:

The application operation unit (250) is configured to select an application according to the input selection instruction, and perform at least one of the following operations on the selected application according to the input operation instruction: blacklist configuration, whitelist configuration, application distribution , application notifications.

14. The multi-platform application search server (200) of claim 8, further comprising:

An application update unit (260) for monitoring one or more of the plurality of platforms to detect an update of the application, and when detecting an update of the application, to the mobile terminal that has installed the application Send an update notification.