CN104699836A - Multi-keyword search prompting method and multi-keyword search prompting device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a multi-keyword search prompt method and device, wherein the method includes: monitoring the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box; determining the search keyword according to the cursor position and the separator in the search input box ; Send a search prompt request to the search server, the search prompt request contains the search keyword; receive the response data that contains the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request; obtain the search prompt word from the response data And display the search prompt words. Through this solution, the search prompt word does not only depend on the overall input content, but reflects the user's current search intention according to the change of the separator and cursor position, and provides more accurate search prompts suitable for the user's needs.

Description

A multi-keyword search prompt method and device

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of Internet search, in particular to a multi-keyword search prompt method and device.

Background technique

In the existing search pages, for the purpose of facilitating user operations, guiding users' search behavior, and pushing messages to users, etc., the function of search prompts is generally provided.

On the current search page, the user inputs keywords in the search input box, the search page provides the user's current input content to the search engine, and the search engine associates the current input and gives search prompt words. Among them, the search prompt includes various situations, which may be to complete some of the keywords that the user has entered. For example, the user enters "Sina", and the search prompt "Sina Weibo", "Sina Mailbox", etc. is displayed. , the user can directly click the given "Sina Weibo" prompt, and the page will directly jump to the search result page with "Sina Weibo" as the keyword; or, modify the user input, for example, if the user enters "xin", Give search prompts for "Sina" and "Singapore"; and related prompts, for example, if the user inputs "Hurry That Year", give a search prompt for "Hurry That Year Faye Wong".

However, the above-mentioned search prompt method is still very simple, and it is difficult to give a suitable search prompt when the user input is complex, for example, including punctuation marks and spaces.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention is proposed to provide a multi-keyword search prompt method and device that overcomes the above problems or at least partially solves the above problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a multi-keyword search prompt method is provided, including:

Listen to the search input box to get the cursor position in the search input box;

Determine the search keyword according to the cursor position and the separator in the search input box;

Send a search prompt request to the search server, where the search prompt request contains search keywords;

Receiving response data containing search prompt words corresponding to search keywords returned by the search server according to the search prompt request;

Get the search hint from the response data and display the search hint.

Optionally, the monitoring the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box further includes: monitoring the input event in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position;

The determining the search keyword according to the cursor position and the separator in the search input box further includes: determining the input content between the cursor position and the last separator in the search input box as the search keyword.

Optionally, the monitoring the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box further includes: monitoring the cursor position change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position;

The determining the search keyword according to the cursor position and the separator in the search input box further includes: determining the input content between the cursor position and the last separator before the cursor position as the search keyword .

Optionally, after receiving the response data containing the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request, the method further includes: The response data is saved in the local cache;

Optionally, the obtaining and displaying the search prompt further includes:

Read the response data from the local cache;

The search prompt is extracted from the response data.

Optionally, the obtaining and displaying the search prompt further includes:

The search prompt word is displayed in the search drop-down box.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a multi-keyword search prompt device is provided, including:

A monitoring module, adapted to monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box;

Selected modules adapted to determine search keywords based on cursor position and separators in the search input box;

A sending interface, adapted to send a search prompt request to the search server, where the search prompt request contains search keywords;

The receiving interface is adapted to receive the response data containing the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request;

An acquisition module adapted to acquire search prompt words from the response data;

The display module is suitable for displaying search prompt words.

Optionally, the monitoring module is further adapted to: monitor input events in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position;

The selection module is further adapted to: determine the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter in the search input box as the search keyword.

Optionally, the monitoring module is further adapted to: monitor a cursor position change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position;

The selection module is further adapted to: determine the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position as a search keyword.

Optionally, the device also includes:

A caching module, adapted to save the response data containing the search prompt in a local cache;

The acquisition module is further adapted to: read the response data from a local cache, and extract the search prompt words from the response data.

Optionally, the display module is further adapted to: display the search prompt words in a search drop-down box.

According to the multi-keyword search prompt method and device of the present invention, the search input box is monitored, and the search keyword is selected according to the cursor position and separator in the search input box, so that the search engine can provide search prompt words according to the selected search keyword . Through the above solution, the search prompt word does not only depend on the overall input content, but reflects the user's current search intention according to the change of the delimiter and the cursor position, and provides more accurate search prompts suitable for the user's needs.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of the present invention. In order to better understand the technical means of the present invention, it can be implemented according to the contents of the description, and in order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable , the specific embodiments of the present invention are enumerated below.

Description of drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment and are not to be considered as limiting the invention. Also throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same parts. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a multi-keyword search prompt method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2a shows a schematic diagram of search prompt results for multiple keywords in the prior art;

Fig. 2b shows a schematic diagram of search prompt results provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a multi-keyword search prompt method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 shows a schematic diagram of a display of search prompt results provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of a multi-keyword search prompt method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 shows a schematic diagram of a display of search prompt results provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 shows a schematic structural diagram of a multi-keyword search prompt device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 8 shows a schematic structural diagram of a multi-keyword search prompting device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for more thorough understanding of the present disclosure and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 shows a flowchart of a multi-keyword search prompt method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 1, the method includes the following steps:

Step S110, monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box.

The multi-keyword search prompt method of the embodiment of the present invention can be used in various search scenarios, including: search pages provided by search service providers, search bars on navigation pages, and mobile terminals such as smartphones and tablet computers that have search functions. in the terminal program.

In this step, monitoring the position of the cursor is completed by a corresponding client program, for example, in the search page, the monitoring of the search input box is completed through Javascript code in the page.

The change of the cursor position may be caused by the user's input, or may be caused by the user moving or clicking the cursor. Therefore, listening to the search input box may include: listening to an input event in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position, or listening to a cursor position change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position.

Step S120, determine the search keyword according to the position of the cursor and the delimiter in the search input box.

Figure 2a shows a schematic diagram of the search prompt results for multiple keywords in the prior art. As shown in Figure 2a, when the user enters "hurried" in the search box, multiple search prompts are given, including "hurried that year" ", "Movies in that year in a hurry" and so on; and when the user enters "that year in a hurry, we will meet later", the search prompt given is only "There will be no date in that year in a hurry". Obviously, under such input conditions, the search hints given in the prior art have no practical meaning.

In the existing search prompt method, when the page obtains the input content in the search input box, the delimiter and the positional relationship between the delimiter and the cursor are actually ignored. Instead, only the entire text content is obtained as a prefix for matching, and the search engine performs matching according to the prefix to obtain search prompt words. And when the user input is too long, it becomes more and more difficult to match.

A scenario related to the present invention is that the user enters "Beijing, subway" in the search input box. At this time, according to the existing search prompt method, the search prompt given is "Beijing Metro Planning Map", "Beijing Subway Line 3" and other matching words prefixed with "Beijing Subway". In fact, the user enters "Beijing, subway", which not only contains the above-mentioned search possibilities, but may also contain intents related to "Beijing" or "subway". For example, if the user wants to get a search prompt related to "Beijing", he needs to delete part of the content or re-enter.

In the search prompt method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a different processing method is adopted for the delimiter in the search input box. Specifically, according to predetermined search keyword selection rules, the search keyword is selected through the positional relationship between the delimiter and the cursor, and is used as a search keyword for the search engine to provide search prompts.

That is to say, in the present invention, the cursor and the delimiter are not only used for separating keywords and identifying textual relations. Furthermore, the possible intention of the user is judged by the position of the cursor and the delimiter, so as to provide the user with more suitable search prompts.

Among them, the delimiter can be comma, underscore, space, etc. Further, the separator can also be customized by the user according to needs, which is not limited in the present invention.

Specifically, determining the search key according to the cursor position and the delimiter in the search input box includes various methods, for example, using the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position as the search key, or using the cursor The input content between the delimiter closest to the cursor, or the input content delimited by the delimiters on both sides of the cursor at the cursor position as the keyword, etc., are not listed one by one.

Fig. 2b shows a schematic diagram of a search prompt provided by the method of this embodiment. As shown in Figure 2b, when the user has input "that year in a hurry, there will be no future, no touch", through the monitoring of the search box in step S110, the position of the cursor is obtained at the end of the text. At this time, the cursor and the search input box The content delimited by the last delimiter in is "touch not", so that the obtained search keyword is "touch not".

Step S130, sending a search prompt request to the search server.

Use "touch not" as a search keyword to generate a search prompt request, and add "touch not" to the search prompt request. The search engine will match the search keywords to obtain search prompt words.

Step S140, receiving the response data including the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request.

As an example, the response data returned by the search engine server is: jQuery18305032303205225617_1418895223595 ({"query": "Untouchable", "result": [{"word": "Untouchable Movie"}, {"word":" Untouchable Watermelon Video "}, {"word": "Untouchable Thunder Download"}, {"word": "Untouchable 2014 Movie"}, {"word": "Untouchable Sun Honglei"}, { "word": "Untouchable music"}, {"word": "Untouchable movie review"}, {"word": "Untouchable theme song"}, {"word": "Untouchable box office" }, {"word": "Untouchable 2014"}], "version": "3.01"}).

Of course, the returned response data may also contain other content, for example, pictures related to untouchables, movie viewing addresses, etc.

Step S150, obtaining the search prompt words from the response data and displaying the search prompt words.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2 b , a search drop-down box is displayed below the search input box, and the extracted search prompt words are displayed in the search drop-down box in order. And set a clickable event for each search prompt word, which is bound to the corresponding search result page. After the user clicks the search prompt word, it will directly jump to the search result page with the search prompt word as the search keyword.

According to the method provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position, determine the search keyword through the relationship between the cursor position and the delimiter, send the search prompt request to the search engine, and according to the response data returned by the search engine Show search keywords. Through this solution, the search prompt does not only depend on the overall input content, but judges the user's current search intention according to the change of the delimiter and the cursor position, and provides more accurate and suitable search prompts for the user. At the same time, the flexibility of the search prompt is also increased, and the user can obtain different search prompts without operations such as deletion or re-input.

Fig. 3 shows a multi-keyword search prompt method according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 3, the method includes the following steps:

Step S310, monitor the input event in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position.

The embodiment of the present invention takes the user input process as an example to introduce a specific implementation manner of the method of the present invention.

When the user is typing in the search input box, the cursor position moves backwards with the user input. At this time, the change of the search input can be monitored in real time to obtain the position of the cursor. Specifically, for a search page, this can be achieved by adding Javascript scripts to the page to monitor changes in input values in real time, such as monitoring oninput and onpropertychange events.

Step S320, determine the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter in the search input box as the search keyword.

During the user's input process, the displayed search prompt changes continuously with the user's input. As shown in Figure 4, when the user enters "the year in a hurry, there will be no later" in the search input box, according to the position of the cursor and the last delimiter The input content before "," is "nothing after". At this time, it is considered that the user's search intention is the content related to "there will be nothing after" and does not include the content before the delimiter, and this part of the content is used as the search keyword. And when the user continues to enter "the year in a hurry, there will be no future, touch not", it is judged that the user's search intention is related to "touch not", and correspondingly, the search keyword is "touch not".

Step S330, sending a search prompt request to the search server.

The search prompt request contains search keywords. Specifically, for the two examples in FIG. 4 , the search keywords contained in the search prompt request are "houhuiwu" and "touchbu".

Step S340, receiving the response data including the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request.

Taking the search keyword as "touch not" as an example, the following response data can be returned:

jQuery18305032303205225617_1418895223595({"query": "Untouchable", "result": [{"word": "Untouchable movie"}, {"word": "Untouchable watermelon video"}, {"word": "Untouchable Thunder Download"}, {"word": "Untouchable 2014 Movie"}, {"word": "Untouchable Sun Honglei"}, {"word": "Untouchable Music"}, { ″word″: ″Untouchable movie review”}, {″word″: ″Untouchable theme song″}, {″word″: ″Untouchable box office”}, {″word″: ″Untouchable 2014″ }], "version": "3.01"}).

Of course, other content may be included in the response data besides the search prompt. For example, for one of the search prompt words "The Untouchable Movie", after the search engine obtains the search keyword, the first item on the search result page is the online viewing URL of the Untouchable movie, with a picture of the movie poster, The image file may also be included in the returned response data. In addition, URL addresses and the like may also be included.

Step S350, saving the response data containing the search prompt words in the local cache.

In this embodiment, before the search page extracts the search prompt word from the response data, the response data is saved in the local cache. This has some advantages. For example, after the user enters "hastily", the response data corresponding to "hastily" is obtained. The user continues to input "hastily that year, and there will be no period later". When the user deletes part of the input content, the search input box After the content has been changed to "Hurrying", the search prompt words can be directly extracted from the locally cached response data, which improves the display speed and reduces the pressure on the search engine server.

Step S360, read the response data from the local cache and extract the search prompt words from the response data.

Step S370, displaying search prompt words.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4 , a search drop-down box is displayed below the search input box, and the extracted search prompt words are sequentially displayed in the search drop-down box. For example, for the example where the search keyword in Figure 4 is "untouchable", search prompt words such as "untouchable movie" and "untouchable box office" are extracted, and clickable events are set for each search prompt word, and The corresponding search result page is bound, and after the user clicks the search prompt word, it will directly jump to the search result page with the search prompt word as the search keyword.

According to the method provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, as the user input changes, the search keyword is determined according to the cursor position and the last delimiter, and a search prompt that changes with the user input is displayed to accurately reflect the user's search intention and reduce user operations. Give more appropriate search hints.

Fig. 5 shows a flowchart of a multi-keyword search prompt method according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 5, the method includes the following steps:

Step S510, monitor the cursor position change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position.

This embodiment is applicable to another situation, where the user has input multiple search keywords separated by multiple delimiters.

At this point, the user may also want to adjust the search keywords, or see a comparison of search hints for each search keyword. According to the method in this embodiment, after the user input is completed, the user can directly obtain different search prompts by adjusting the position of the cursor through the mouse or keyboard.

Specifically, the monitoring of cursor position change events can be accomplished by monitoring oninput and onpropertychange events through Javascript and monitoring mouse and keyboard actions through HTML, which will not be discussed in detail here.

Step S520, determining the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position as a search keyword.

FIG. 6 shows a schematic diagram of a search prompt interface provided by this embodiment. As shown in Figure 6, the user has entered "the year in a hurry, the future will be indefinite and untouchable" in the search input box. When the user moves the cursor after "None", the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position is "There will be nothing after", and this part of the text is used as the search keyword. Similarly, when the user moves the cursor after "can", the search keyword is "untouchable".

Step S530, sending a search prompt request to the search server.

Step S540, receiving the response data including the search prompt word corresponding to the search keyword returned by the search server according to the search prompt request.

Step S550, obtaining the search prompt words from the response data and displaying the search prompt words.

For specific implementation manners of steps S530-S550, reference may be made to the description of related steps in the previous embodiment, and details are not repeated here.

According to the method provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, monitor the cursor change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position, and determine the search keyword through the relationship between the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor. Through this solution, the search prompt does not only depend on Instead of inputting the content as a whole, it can judge the user's current search intention according to the change of the delimiter and cursor position, and give more accurate and suitable search tips. At the same time, the flexibility of the search prompt is also increased, and the user can obtain different search prompts without operations such as deletion or re-input. After the user enters multiple keywords, the content selected by the user can still be used as the search keyword to obtain different search prompts and present more information.

Fig. 7 shows a schematic structural diagram of a multi-keyword search prompt device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 7, the device includes:

The monitoring module 710 is adapted to monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box.

The multi-keyword search prompting device of the embodiment of the present invention can be used in various search scenarios, including: search pages provided by search service providers, search bars on navigation pages, and search function clients of mobile terminals such as smart phones and tablet computers program.

The change of the cursor position may be caused by the user's input, or may be caused by the user moving or clicking the cursor. Therefore, the monitoring module 710 is further adapted to: monitor the input event in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position; or monitor the cursor position change event in the search input box to obtain the cursor position.

Specifically, for a search page, this can be achieved by adding Javascript scripts to the page to monitor changes in input values in real time, such as monitoring oninput and onpropertychange events.

The selection module 720 is adapted to determine the search keyword according to the position of the cursor and the delimiter in the search input box.

In the search prompt device provided in the embodiment of the present invention, a different processing method is adopted for the delimiter in the search input box. Specifically, according to predetermined search keyword selection rules, the search keyword is selected through the positional relationship between the delimiter and the cursor, and is used as a search keyword for the search engine to provide search prompts.

That is to say, in the present invention, the cursor and the delimiter are not only used for separating keywords and identifying textual relations. Furthermore, the possible intention of the user is judged by the position of the cursor and the delimiter, so as to provide the user with more suitable search prompts.

Among them, the delimiter can be comma, underscore, space, etc. Further, the separator can also be customized by the user according to needs, which is not limited in this application.

Specifically, the selection module 720 determines the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter in the search input box as the search keyword according to the monitoring result of the monitoring module 710; or, the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position The input content between delimiters is determined as the search key.

The transceiver module 730 is adapted to send a search prompt request to the search server, the search prompt request includes the search keyword, and

Receiving response data including search prompt words corresponding to search keywords returned by the search server according to the search prompt request.

As an example, the response data returned by the search engine server is: jQuery18305032303205225617_1418895223595 ({"query": "Untouchable", "result": [{"word": "Untouchable Movie"}, {"word":" Untouchable Watermelon Video "}, {"word": "Untouchable Thunder Download"}, {"word": "Untouchable 2014 Movie"}, {"word": "Untouchable Sun Honglei"}, { "word": "Untouchable music"}, {"word": "Untouchable movie review"}, {"word": "Untouchable theme song"}, {"word": "Untouchable box office" }, {"word": "Untouchable 2014"}], "version": "3.01"}).

The obtaining module 740 is adapted to obtain the search prompt words from the response data.

The display module 750 is adapted to display search prompt words.

Specifically, the search prompt word is displayed in the search drop-down box. And set a clickable event for each search prompt word, which is bound to the corresponding search result page. After the user clicks the search prompt word, it will directly jump to the search result page with the search prompt word as the search keyword.

Fig. 8 shows a schematic structural diagram of a multi-keyword search prompt device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 8, the device includes:

The monitoring module 810 is adapted to monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position in the search input box.

Optionally, the monitoring module 810 is further adapted to: monitor input events in the search input box to obtain the current input position as the cursor position; or monitor cursor position change events in the search input box to obtain the cursor position.

The selection module 820 is adapted to determine the search keyword according to the position of the cursor and the delimiter in the search input box.

Specifically, the selection module 820 determines the input content between the cursor position and the last delimiter in the search input box as the search keyword according to the monitoring result of the monitoring module 810; or, the cursor position and the last delimiter before the cursor position The input content between delimiters is determined as the search key.

The transceiver module 830 is adapted to send a search prompt request to the search server, where the search prompt request contains search keywords, and

Receiving response data including search prompt words corresponding to search keywords returned by the search server according to the search prompt request.

The caching module 840 is adapted to save the response data containing the search prompt words in a local cache.

The acquiring module 850 is adapted to read the response data from the local cache, and extract the search prompt words from the response data.

The display module 860 is adapted to display search prompt words.

According to the device provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, monitor the search input box to obtain the cursor position, determine the search keyword through the relationship between the cursor position and the delimiter, send the search prompt request to the search engine, and according to the response data returned by the search engine Show search keywords. Through this solution, the search prompt does not only depend on the overall input content, but judges the user's current search intention according to the change of the delimiter and the cursor position, and gives more accurate and suitable search prompts. At the same time, the flexibility of the search prompt is also increased, and the user can obtain different search prompts without operations such as deletion or re-input. Moreover, flexible search prompts can be given according to changes in the position of the cursor to display more information during the input process and after the user completes the input.

The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, virtual system, or other device. Various generic systems can also be used with the teachings based on this. The structure required to construct such a system is apparent from the above description. Furthermore, the present invention is not specific to any particular programming language. It should be understood that various programming languages can be used to implement the content of the present invention described herein, and the above description of specific languages is for disclosing the best mode of the present invention.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, in order to streamline this disclosure and to facilitate an understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or its description. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the device in the embodiment can be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more devices different from the embodiment. Modules or units or components in the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-assemblies. All features disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) and any method or method so disclosed may be used in any combination, except that at least some of such features and/or processes or units are mutually exclusive. All processes or units of equipment are combined. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments but not others, combinations of features from different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention. and form different embodiments. For example, in the following claims, any of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art should understand that a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) can be used in practice to implement some or all functions of some or all components in the multi-keyword search prompting device according to the embodiment of the present invention. The present invention can also be implemented as an apparatus or an apparatus program (for example, a computer program and a computer program product) for performing a part or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for realizing the present invention may be stored on a computer-readable medium, or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an Internet site, or provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

Claims (10)

1. a Search Hints method for multiple key, comprising:

Monitor search input frame to obtain the cursor position in search input frame;

According to the separator determination search key in described cursor position and described search input frame;

Send Search Hints request to search server, in described Search Hints request, comprise described search key;

Receive the response data comprising the Search Hints word corresponding with described search key that search server returns according to described Search Hints request;

From described response data, obtain described Search Hints word and show described Search Hints word.

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, described search input frame of monitoring comprises further with the cursor position obtained in search input frame: the incoming event in monitoring search input frame is to obtain current input position as described cursor position;

Describedly to comprise further according to the separator determination search key in described cursor position and described search input frame: the input content in search input frame between cursor position and most end separator is defined as search key.

3. method according to claim 1, wherein, described search input frame of monitoring comprises further with the cursor position obtained in search input frame: the cursor position change events in monitoring search input frame is to obtain cursor position;

Describedly to comprise further according to the separator determination search key in described cursor position and described search input frame: the input content between last separator before described cursor position and described cursor position is defined as search key.

4. the method according to any one of claim 1-3, wherein, described reception search server return according to described Search Hints request comprise the response data of the Search Hints word corresponding with described search key after, described method comprises further: the described response data comprising Search Hints word is kept at local cache;

Described acquisition also shows described Search Hints word and comprises further:

Described response data is read from local cache;

Described Search Hints word is extracted from described response data.

5. the method according to any one of claim 1-4, wherein, described acquisition also shows described Search Hints word and comprises further:

Described Search Hints word is shown in search combobox.

6. a Search Hints device for multiple key, comprising:

Monitor module, be suitable for monitoring search input frame to obtain the cursor position in search input frame;

Chosen module, is suitable for according to the separator determination search key in described cursor position and described search input frame;

Transceiver module, is suitable for sending Search Hints request to search server, comprises described search key in described Search Hints request, and

Receive the response data comprising the Search Hints word corresponding with described search key that search server returns according to described Search Hints request;

Acquisition module, is suitable for from described response data, obtain described Search Hints word;

Display module, is suitable for showing described Search Hints word.

7. device according to claim 6, wherein, described monitoring module is further adapted for: the incoming event in monitoring search input frame is to obtain current input position as described cursor position;

Described chosen module is further adapted for: the input content in search input frame between cursor position and most end separator is defined as search key.

8. device according to claim 6, wherein, described monitoring module is further adapted for: the cursor position change events in monitoring search input frame is to obtain cursor position;

Described chosen module is further adapted for: the input content between last separator before described cursor position and described cursor position is defined as search key.

9. the device according to any one of claim 6-8, wherein, described device also comprises:

Cache module, is suitable for the described response data comprising Search Hints word to be kept at local cache;

Described acquisition module is further adapted for: from local cache, read described response data, and from described response data, extract described Search Hints word.

10. the device according to any one of claim 6-9, wherein, described display module is further adapted for: in search combobox, show described Search Hints word.