Patent ID: 11928168
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
obtaining, for a query, search results for the query and a ranking of the search results, wherein the query is a natural language query and wherein the search results are generated based on the query;
identifying, based on at least one term of the query, that the query is a question query requesting a type of entity, the type of entity being one of a person, a location, or a date;
selecting an entity reference from content of a highest-ranked search result, wherein the entity reference includes text that refers to a particular entity of a type matching the type of entity requested, the text being distinct from terms of the query and wherein the highest-ranked search result is most relevant to the query; and
providing the entity reference for presentation at a computing device responsive to voice input of the query from a user, wherein providing the entity reference is responsive to selecting the entity reference from the content of the highest-ranked search result.