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Automatic completion of fragments of text

  • US 8,024,178 B1
  • Filed: 12/14/2009
  • Issued: 09/20/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method, performed by one or more server or client devices, for completing fragments of text, the method comprising:

  • obtaining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, a text fragment;

    identifying, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, one or more documents based, at least in part on the text fragment;

    identifying, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, sentences within the one or more documents that include the text fragment;

    determining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, sentence endings associated with the identified sentences;

    determining a measure of popularity for each of the sentence endings, where the measure of popularity for one of the sentence endings is based, at least in part, on a quantity of documents within a document corpus that includes the one of the sentence endings;

    ordering the sentence endings based, at least in part, on the determined measure of popularity for each of the sentence endings; and

    presenting, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, the ordered sentence endings as potential completions for the text fragment.

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