WO2019205716A1

WO2019205716A1 - Method and device for searching for information in application program

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Publication number: WO2019205716A1
Application number: PCT/CN2018/125602
Authority: WO
Inventors: 苏勇; 王飞
Original assignee: 上海掌门科技有限公司
Priority date: 2018-04-26
Filing date: 2018-12-29
Publication date: 2019-10-31
Also published as: CN108595642A

Abstract

A method and device for searching for information in an application program. The method comprises: acquiring page content information of at least one application program to which a page description field has been added, wherein the page description field comprises a key word corresponding to the page content information (S11); classifying the page content information according to the key word, and establishing a page content information database according to multiple fields composed by the key word and a page path (S12); and acquiring a search key word of a user, and matching and searching for a target page corresponding to the search key word in the page content information database according to the search key word, to obtain a search result (S13). Page content information of different application programs is summarized to provide more rich and more comprehensive search results for a user, breaking information isolation between application programs and preventing a user from needing to repeatedly conduct a search operation in different application programs for the same search request.

Description

Method and device for searching information in application

Technical field

The present application relates to the field of computers, and in particular, to a method and device for searching information in an application.

Background technique

With the increasing activities of human beings on the Internet and the rapid development of Internet technologies, some search engines have provided search services for Internet users. In the era of personal computer (PC) Internet, mainly search web pages (Web), crawling through web crawling technology. Web content to provide search services. In the era of mobile Internet, the main content of the mobile application (APP) is searched, and the APPs are isolated from each other, forming an information island, which makes the traditional crawler search technology unusable.

Summary of the invention

An object of the present application is to provide a method and device for searching information in an application, which solves the problem of information isolation between applications in the prior art and the inability to provide users with page content information of multiple applications.

According to one aspect of the present application, a method of searching for information within an application is provided, the method comprising:

Obtaining page content information of at least one application of the added page description field, where the page description field includes a keyword corresponding to the page content information;

And categorizing the page content information according to the keyword, and establishing a page content information database according to the plurality of fields composed of the keyword and the page path;

Obtaining a search keyword of the user, and searching for a target page corresponding to the search keyword in the page content information database according to the search keyword, to obtain a search result.

Further, establishing a page content information database according to the plurality of fields consisting of the keyword and the page path, including:

The page content information database is established according to the plurality of fields consisting of the keyword, the source application of the page, the summary information corresponding to the search keyword, and any combination of the page paths.

Further, after obtaining the search results, including:

Sorting the search results according to a preset rule, and sequentially displaying search keywords corresponding to each target page in the search result, source application information, summary information corresponding to the search keyword, and a page of the target page. Any combination of paths.

Further, before acquiring the page content information of the at least one application of the added page description field, the method includes:

At least one application of the added page description field is determined from an application installation list of the user device.

Further, the page content information of the at least one application that has added the page description field includes:

Obtain a list of applications that have added a page description field from the network device side;

Selecting one or more target applications of the same type as the application in the installation list of the user device from the application list;

Obtaining page content information of the one or more target applications and applications in the installation list to which the description field has been added.

Further, the page content information of the at least one application that has added the page description field further includes:

Obtain a list of historical installation applications of user devices;

Determining an application to which a page description field has been added from the list of historical installation applications;

Get the page content information of the application of the added page description field.

Further, the added page description field includes a field composed of one or more keywords corresponding to the page content information, wherein the keyword corresponding to the page content information is a desired search keyword.

Further, the search keyword of the user is obtained, and the search result corresponding to the search keyword is matched in the page content information database according to the search keyword, and the search result is obtained, including:

Obtaining a search keyword of the user, determining relevance information of the search keyword and the desired search keyword, and matching, in the page content information database, the target page corresponding to the search keyword according to the relevance information. , get search results.

Further, the search results are sorted according to a preset rule, including:

Sorting the search results according to historical parameter information corresponding to the target page, where the historical parameter information includes an installation time of a source application of the target page, a number of times the user clicks on the target page, and a user is The duration of the target page.

Further, sorting the search results based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page includes:

Determining a weight value of each target page based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page and weight information corresponding to each parameter in the historical parameter information;

The search results are sorted according to the weight value of each target page.

A weight value of each target page is determined based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page.

Further, determining, according to the historical parameter information corresponding to the target page, a weight value of each target page, including:

Sorting the target page according to the installation time of the source application of the target page to obtain sorting information;

And grouping the target pages according to the preset unit time and the installation time, and updating the weight value of each target page according to the number of groups and the sorting information.

Further, the method includes:

Updating the weight value of the target page according to the number of times the user clicks on the target page.

Further, the method includes:

Updating the weight value of the target page according to the preset duration and the duration of the user staying at the target page.

Further, after sequentially displaying the search keyword and the source application information corresponding to each target page in the search result, the method includes:

And jumping to the source application corresponding to the target page according to the user's selection operation and the page path to display the page content information of the target page in the source application.

According to another aspect of the present application, there is also provided a computer readable medium having stored thereon computer readable instructions executable by a processor to implement the aforementioned method of searching for information within an application.

According to still another aspect of the present application, there is also provided an apparatus for searching for information in an application, wherein the apparatus comprises:

One or more processors;

A memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform the operations of the aforementioned methods.

Compared with the prior art, the present application obtains page content information of at least one application that has added a page description field, where the page description field includes keywords corresponding to the page content information; according to the keyword pair The page content information is classified, and the page content information database is established according to the plurality of fields composed of the keyword and the page path; the search keyword of the user is obtained, and the page content information database is matched according to the search keyword. Find a target page corresponding to the search keyword, and obtain a search result. Therefore, it is possible to summarize the page content information of different applications, provide users with richer and more comprehensive search results, break the information isolation between applications, and avoid the need for users to repeatedly search for different applications for the same search request.

DRAWINGS

Other features, objects, and advantages of the present application will become more apparent from the detailed description of the accompanying drawings.

1 is a flow chart showing a method for searching for information in an application according to an aspect of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an interface display of search results in an embodiment of the present application.

The same or similar reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar components.

detailed description

The present application is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In a typical configuration of the present application, the terminal, the device of the service network, and the trusted party each include one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include non-persistent memory, random access memory (RAM), and/or non-volatile memory in a computer readable medium, such as read only memory (ROM) or flash memory. Memory is an example of a computer readable medium.

Computer readable media includes both permanent and non-persistent, removable and non-removable media. Information storage can be implemented by any method or technology. The information can be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of programs, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), other types of random access memory (RAM), read only memory. (ROM), electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical storage, A magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape storage or other magnetic storage device or any other non-transportable medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, computer readable media does not include non-transitory computer readable media, such as modulated data signals and carrier waves.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for searching information in an application according to an aspect of the present application. The method includes: Step S11 to Step S13, wherein in step S11, at least one of the added page description fields is acquired. a page content information of the application, wherein the page description field includes a keyword corresponding to the page content information; in step S12, the page content information is classified according to the keyword, according to the keyword And a plurality of fields composed of the page path to establish a page content information database; in step S13, acquiring a search keyword of the user, and searching for the target corresponding to the search keyword in the page content information database according to the search keyword Page, get search results. Therefore, it is possible to summarize the page content information of different applications, provide users with richer and more comprehensive search results, break the information isolation between applications, and avoid the need for users to repeatedly search for different applications for the same search request.

Specifically, in step S11, the page content information of the at least one application that has added the page description field is acquired, where the page description field includes a keyword corresponding to the page content information; here, for example, in an Android system. Each application (APP) has a description file used to define the page inside the app, called AndroidManifest.xml, each page can be called Activity. Obtain all externally exposed activities of all applications in the system by querying the Android system interface queryIntentActivities. Therefore, when the APP adds a description field (such as android: description) in the description file of the activity that is exposed to the outside, the search engine can be searched for the content of the page of the APP. In the system of the terminal, by searching for the APP that has added the description field, after determining these APPs, they can search their page contents, thereby breaking the information isolation between the APPs. It should be noted that the description field includes keywords corresponding to the page content of the APP, such as an APP, and the description field android: description=“store 1 shop 2 shop 3” is added in the store activity, and the search can be found. The page content information corresponding to the store 1 store 2 store 3 of the APP. The number of keywords added in the description field is not limited. Spaces can be used to distinguish different keywords. When there are multiple page activities, the desired keywords are added.

Next, in step S12, the page content information is classified according to the keyword, and a page content information database is established according to the plurality of fields composed of the keyword and the page path; here, the description is added in the search determination After one or more APPs of the field, the corresponding description field is read, and the obtained page content information is classified according to the keywords in the description field to perform word segmentation processing, so that the page content information database can be established. The database includes a plurality of fields consisting of a keyword and a page path to implement the establishment of the index database, and the matching query is quickly performed to the information associated with the keyword according to the query request of the keyword. Then, in step S13, the search keyword of the user is obtained, and the target page corresponding to the search keyword is matched in the page content information database according to the search keyword, and the search result is obtained. Here, the search keyword is a keyword input by the user. When the user inputs a keyword in the search box, the matching query from the established page content information database to the corresponding information is fed back to the user, and the user can select a certain one. The search result then enters the corresponding page content information or jumps to the corresponding application interface.

In an embodiment of the present application, in step S12, a plurality of fields composed of any combination of the keyword, the source application of the page, the summary information corresponding to the search keyword, and the page path are established. Page content information database. Here, the database may be established according to the keyword, the information of the source application, the summary information associated with the keyword and the target page content, and the multi-field composed of the path of the target page, wherein the path of the target page is the entry into the page. Links, so that users can understand the source of the search results, briefly understand the summary information of the page, and select operations based on the source and summary information, and select the corresponding search results. The database may also be established according to the fields composed of the summary information, the keywords, and the page path, and the keywords may appear in the index form in the subsequent matching search results. When the database is established, the database can also be established according to the keyword, the page path and the source application of the page, so as to conveniently provide the user with the source application information of each search result page, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, when searching for “cake” The search results from the three applications are displayed in the search result list, and the corresponding source application information is displayed for the user to select. By diversifying the content of the fields in the database, the user can provide a display interface with various search results to meet the user's search requirements.

In an embodiment of the present application, the search results may be sorted according to a preset rule, and the search keywords, the source application information, and the search keyword corresponding to each target page in the search result are sequentially displayed. Summary information and any combination of the page paths of the target page. Further, according to the user's selection operation, the user may jump to the detailed page content corresponding to the summary information, or jump to the source application corresponding to the target page according to the page path, to display the target page in the source application. Page content information. In an embodiment of the present application, the source application corresponding to the target page may be jumped according to the user's selection operation and the page path to display the page content information of the target page in the source application. Here, the search results may be sorted according to preset rules, and the search keywords and source application information corresponding to each page are sequentially displayed, for example, the search result for the search keyword is “cake”, and the order is followed by APP 1 . , APP 2, APP 3 related to the cake page, according to the user's selection operation of a certain search result and the corresponding page path jump to the corresponding APP interface, for example, the user clicks on the search result from APP 1, can jump to In the application interface of APP 1, it is convenient for the user to directly perform operations such as placing an order and making an appointment in the APP 1.

Preferably, when the search results are sorted according to a preset rule, the search results may be sorted based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page, where the historical parameter information includes a source application of the target page. The installation time of the program, the number of times the user clicks on the target page, and the length of time the user stays on the target page. Here, based on the application installation time, the number of user clicks, and the duration of the search result page, the search results are comprehensively sorted, which is closer to the user's selection tendency and improves the user experience. Specifically, the weighting value of each target page may be determined based on the historical parameter information corresponding to the target page and the weight information corresponding to each parameter in the historical parameter information; and the searching is performed according to the weight value of each target page. The results are sorted. Here, the weights of the parameters are set, for example, the parameter setting weight of the user clicks is large, and the weight corresponding to the installation time is small, the parameters are quantized, and then each weight is calculated according to the set weight. The weight value of each page, and the search results are sorted according to the size of the weight value. For example, the installation time of the source application, the number of times the user clicks on the target page, and the duration of the user's stay on the target page are taken as calculation parameters, and the installation time weight is recorded as 0.2, and the weight of the user clicking the page is recorded as 0.5. The duration of the page stay is recorded as 0.3, and the value quantized by each parameter is multiplied by the corresponding weight, and then accumulated, and the weight value of the target page corresponding to each search result is calculated.

When sorting the search results, the weight value of each target page may also be determined based on the historical parameter information corresponding to the target page. That is, the page weight value is calculated for each parameter information, specifically:

When the historical parameter information includes the installation time of the source application, the target page is sorted according to the installation time of the source application of the target page, and the sorting information is obtained; according to the preset unit time and the installation time, the The target page is grouped, and the weight value of each target page is updated according to the number of groups and the sorting information. Here, for example, initially, the weight of the page corresponding to each keyword is weight=1, the page installation time is sorted from low to high, and grouped according to the installation date, for example, according to days and weeks. The month is grouped, and the page is +5, +1, +2, +3...+n from low to high, where n is the number of packets. For example, according to the week, the installation date is grouped into 4 groups, and the weight of the page is added to 4 (ie, +0, +1, +2, +3, +4) from low to high.

When the historical parameter information includes the number of times the user clicks on the target page, the weight value of the target page is updated according to the number of times the user clicks on the target page. Here, each time the user clicks on a certain search result, the weight value of the corresponding target page is incremented by one. Similarly, when the historical parameter information includes the page duration, the weight value of the target page may be set according to the preset duration and the duration of the user staying at the target page. Counts the length of time the user stays on the target page. For example, in seconds, the weight value of the page is increased by 1 for every 10 seconds. By calculating the weight value of each search result page for the application installation time, the number of user clicks, and the duration of the page stay, the ranking is comprehensively performed. When the weight value is higher, the ranking is also higher, and the closer to the user's selection tendency.

In an embodiment of the present application, before acquiring the page content information of the at least one application that has added the page description field, the target application that needs to search for the added page description field may be determined from the application installation list of the user equipment. The at least one application to which the page description field has been added. Here, the query is performed according to the application installation list in the user equipment system, and at least one application that has added the page description field is searched therefrom, and at this time, the server does not need to be involved, and the user equipment can complete the acquisition, and obtain the qualified condition in the current device. The application, when searching, the search result is the page content of the currently installed qualified application, for example, a user device installation application A, application B, and application C are added page description fields, then proceed When searching, directly matching the application A, the application B, and the application C from the installation list, the acquired application content information will no longer be the page content in other applications.

Of course, in addition to the installed application, when obtaining the page content information of the application to which the page description field has been added, the application list of the added page description field may also be obtained from the network device side; selecting from the application list One or more target applications of the same type as the application in the installation list of the user device; obtaining page content information of the one or more target applications and the application in the installation list to which the description field has been added. Here, information about other APPs of the same type as the currently installed application can be obtained from the network device. For example, APP 1 and APP 2 are installed on the user device, but APP3 of the same type is not installed, if the description file of APP3 is performed. By adding the page description field, the content of the APP3 can be obtained from the network device, and the page information from the APP 3 can be displayed in the search result list, which can stimulate the user to install the APP 3 behavior, and can also browse in the current search engine. Some information about the page from APP 3 does not have to jump to the application interface of APP3 to provide users with a more comprehensive search service.

Further, the page content information of the application that has added the page description field is acquired, and the history installation application list of the user equipment is also obtained; and the application that has added the page description field is determined from the history installation application list; The page content information of the application that has added the page description field. Here, the APP that collects the content of the page to be collected is selected for the installation record by collecting the installation record of the history APP of the user device. For example, the user device history has been installed with the APP 4, and although it is deleted later, if the description file of the APP 4 is added The page description field can also be used as the target application for obtaining the page content, and after the user inputs the keyword, the search result from the APP 4 can be displayed.

In an embodiment of the present application, when a keyword is added in the added page description field, the keyword corresponding to the page content information is a desired search keyword. Here, it is desirable that the search keyword is a word that the developer or the developer of the application desires to be searched for, a superordinate word of the keyword that can be input by the user, a subordinate word, or an associated word, such as a desired key. The word "photography" is associated with the keyword "wedding photo".

Further, in step S13, the search keyword of the user may be acquired, the relevance information of the search keyword and the desired search keyword may be determined, and the search site may be matched in the page content information database according to the association information. The target page corresponding to the search keyword is obtained, and the search result is obtained. In an embodiment of the present application, when the search keyword input by the user is “a wedding photo”, the desired keyword associated with the “wedding photo”, such as “photography”, “dress”, etc., is determined, and the search keyword is determined. The degree of association between keywords is expected to be quickly matched in the database, and the user is fed back the search keyword and the content information of the page corresponding to the desired keyword, so that the user can quickly and efficiently obtain the required content, accurately meet the user's needs, and improve the search. Experience.

In addition, an embodiment of the present application further provides a computer readable medium having stored thereon computer readable instructions executable by a processor to implement the foregoing method for searching information within an application.

One or more processors;

For example, the computer readable instructions, when executed, cause the one or more processors to:

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes can be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of the present invention.

It should be noted that the present application can be implemented in software and/or a combination of software and hardware, for example, using an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a general purpose computer, or any other similar hardware device. In one embodiment, the software program of the present application can be executed by a processor to implement the steps or functions described above. Likewise, the software programs (including related data structures) of the present application can be stored in a computer readable recording medium such as a RAM memory, a magnetic or optical drive or a floppy disk and the like. In addition, some of the steps or functions of the present application may be implemented in hardware, for example, as a circuit that cooperates with a processor to perform various steps or functions.

In addition, a portion of the present application can be applied as a computer program product, such as computer program instructions, which, when executed by a computer, can invoke or provide a method and/or technical solution in accordance with the present application. The program instructions for invoking the method of the present application may be stored in a fixed or removable recording medium, and/or transmitted by a data stream in a broadcast or other signal bearing medium, and/or stored in a The working memory of the computer device in which the program instructions are run. Herein, an embodiment in accordance with the present application includes a device including a memory for storing computer program instructions and a processor for executing program instructions, wherein when the computer program instructions are executed by the processor, triggering The apparatus operates based on the aforementioned methods and/or technical solutions in accordance with various embodiments of the present application.

It is obvious to those skilled in the art that the present application is not limited to the details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, and the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present application. Therefore, the present embodiments are to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive, and the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims instead All changes in the meaning and scope of equivalent elements are included in this application. Any reference signs in the claims should not be construed as limiting the claim. In addition, it is to be understood that the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps. A plurality of units or devices recited in the device claims may also be implemented by a unit or device by software or hardware. The first, second, etc. words are used to denote names and do not denote any particular order.

Claims

A method of searching for information within an application, wherein the method comprises:

Obtaining page content information of at least one application of the added page description field, where the page description field includes a keyword corresponding to the page content information;

And categorizing the page content information according to the keyword, and establishing a page content information database according to the plurality of fields composed of the keyword and the page path;

Obtaining a search keyword of the user, and searching for a target page corresponding to the search keyword in the page content information database according to the search keyword, to obtain a search result.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing a page content information database according to the plurality of fields consisting of the keyword and the page path comprises:

The page content information database is established according to the plurality of fields consisting of the keyword, the source application of the page, the summary information corresponding to the search keyword, and any combination of the page paths.
The method of claim 2, wherein after obtaining the search result, the method comprises:

Sorting the search results according to a preset rule, and sequentially displaying search keywords corresponding to each target page in the search result, source application information, summary information corresponding to the search keyword, and a page of the target page. Any combination of paths.
The method of claim 1, wherein before obtaining the page content information of the at least one application to which the page description field has been added, the method comprises:

At least one application of the added page description field is determined from an application installation list of the user device.
The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the page content information of the at least one application of the added page description field comprises:

Obtain a list of applications that have added a page description field from the network device side;

Selecting one or more target applications of the same type as the application in the application installation list of the user device from the application list;

Obtaining page content information of the one or more target applications and applications in the application installation list to which the description field has been added.
The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the page content information of the at least one application of the added page description field further comprises:

Obtain a list of historical installation applications of user devices;

Determining an application to which a page description field has been added from the list of historical installation applications;

Get the page content information of the application of the added page description field.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the added page description field comprises a field consisting of one or more keywords corresponding to the page content information, wherein the page content information The corresponding keywords are expected search keywords.
The method of claim 7, wherein the search keyword of the user is obtained, and the search result corresponding to the search keyword is matched in the page content information database according to the search keyword, and the search result is obtained, including:

Obtaining a search keyword of the user, determining relevance information of the search keyword and the desired search keyword, and matching, in the page content information database, the target page corresponding to the search keyword according to the relevance information. , get search results.
The method of claim 3, wherein the sorting the search results according to a preset rule comprises:

Sorting the search results according to historical parameter information corresponding to the target page, where the historical parameter information includes an installation time of a source application of the target page, a number of times the user clicks on the target page, and a user is The duration of the target page.
The method according to claim 9, wherein the sorting the search results based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page comprises:

Determining a weight value of each target page based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page and weight information corresponding to each parameter in the historical parameter information;

The search results are sorted according to the weight value of each target page.
The method according to claim 9, wherein the sorting the search results based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page comprises:

A weight value of each target page is determined based on historical parameter information corresponding to the target page.
The method according to claim 9 or 11, wherein determining the weight value of each target page based on the historical parameter information corresponding to the target page comprises:

Sorting the target page according to the installation time of the source application of the target page to obtain sorting information;

And grouping the target pages according to the preset unit time and the installation time, and updating the weight value of each target page according to the number of groups and the sorting information.
The method of claim 9 or 11, wherein the method comprises:

Updating the weight value of the target page according to the number of times the user clicks on the target page.
The method of claim 9 or 11, wherein the method comprises:

Updating the weight value of the target page according to the preset duration and the duration of the user staying at the target page.
The method according to claim 3, wherein, after sequentially displaying the search keyword and the source application information corresponding to each target page in the search result, the method comprises:

And jumping to the source application corresponding to the target page according to the user's selection operation and the page path to display the page content information of the target page in the source application.
A computer readable medium having stored thereon computer readable instructions executable by a processor to implement the method of any one of claims 1 to 15.
A device for searching information within an application, wherein the device comprises:

One or more processors;

A memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform the operations of the method of any one of claims 1 to 15.