Patent ID: 11960554
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a search engine for generating a query suggestion, the method comprising:
receiving a query issued by a user of a client computing device, where the query includes a keyword;
retrieving, by the search engine, search results based upon the query, where the search results include titles that are to be presented on a search engine results page (SERP), and further where several titles of several of the search results include the keyword;
identifying a number of times that the keyword occurs in the titles of the search results;
extracting the keyword from the query based upon the number of occurrences of the keyword in the titles of the search results;
identifying the query suggestion based upon the keyword extracted from the query; and
upon identifying the query suggestion, providing the query suggestion to the client computing device for presentment to the user.