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System and method for generating an online summary of a collection of documents

  • US 8,037,053 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2008
  • Issued: 10/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system for generating an online summary of documents, comprising:

  • a central processing unit configured to process information as;

    a search engine that receives a search query and obtains a list of URLs of web pages as search results;

    an article summarizer operably coupled to the search engine to generate an online summary of the list of URLs of web pages using a plurality of titles of the web pages;

    a web page storage operably coupled to the article summarizer that stores the online summary and the list of URLs of web pages as search results;

    merging overlapping phrases until there may be no more terms that occur in titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold; and

    applying grammar rules for a language in which the information is expressly merging overlapping phrases until there may be no more terms that occur in the titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold used to remove a term at the beginning or end of a phrase that should not appear in that position of a sentence in the given language.

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