Patent ID: 9323721
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying first and second quotations that occur in particular resources in a set of resources, each of the particular resources being classified as a quotation-related resource; determining, for each of the first and second quotations, a number of occurrences of the quotation in the set of resources and a number of different resources in the set of resources in which the quotation occurs; determining that the first quotation and the second quotation are (i) semantically related and (ii) not identical; selecting, by one or more data processors, a representative quotation from among the first quotation and the second quotation; storing the representative quotation, the number of occurrences of the representative quotation, and the number of different resources in which the representative quotation occurs in association with an entity to which the representative quotation is attributed; receiving a search query; determining, based on one or more terms of the search query, that the search query references the entity; in response to determining that the search query references the entity, determining, based on the stored number of occurrences of the representative quotation and the stored number of different resources in which the representative quotation occurs in association with the entity, to include a section that references information about the entity in a search result page that is responsive to the search query; in response to determining to include the section that references information about the entity in the search result page that is responsive to the search query based on the stored number of occurrences of the representative quotation and the stored number of different resources in which the representative quotation occurs in association with the entity, selecting the representative quotation; and providing, by a search engine to a user device, the search results page including the representative quotation in the section that includes information about the entity.