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  • US 8,484,015 B1
  • Filed: 05/14/2010
  • Issued: 07/09/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for use in a natural language (NL) system that generates answers to NL queries, the method comprising:

  • generating, using one or more computing devices, one or more predicted queries representing one or more potential queries that may be received subsequently by the NL system;

    providing, using one or more computing devices, the one or more predicted queries to an NL query answering system implemented by one or more computing devices;

    receiving, from the NL query answering system, one or more respective answers to the one or more predicted queries;

    generating, using one or more computing devices, one or more web pages corresponding to the one or more respective answers, wherein each web page is configured to display the respective answer;

    storing the one or more web pages in a first database;

    receiving a NL query;

    determining, using one or more computing devices, whether a pre-generated web page that includes an answer to the NL query is stored in the first database;

    when the pre-generated web page that includes the answer to the NL query is stored in the first database, providing the pre-generated web page via a network; and

    when no pre-generated web page that includes the answer to the NL query is stored in the first database;

    generating, using one or more computing devices, an answer based on data stored in a second database,generating, using one or more computing devices, a new web page that includes the answer to the NL query; and

    providing the new web page via the network in response to the NL query.

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