PROCESSING A SEARCH QUERY AND RANKING RESULTS FROM A DATABASE SYSTEM OF A NETWORK COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE

摘要

The present disclosure discloses a hardware processor implemented methods and systems for searching and ranking chat sessions or conversations in a user computing device having a chat contact database or data structure. A chat contact database or data structure can include a plurality of chat records exchanged with different people. The systems and method can process a search query to retrieve records from a database. Further, search context(s) may be identified. Furthermore, the retrieved search results may be ranked based on predefined hierarchy criteria. The ranked results may be sorted based on ranking associated with retrieved search result. Finally sorted results can be displayed.