Patent ID: 9280603
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: assigning a weight to each section of one or more sections in a document; finding a plurality of text strings within the document; wherein each text string of the plurality of text strings corresponds to at least one section of the one or more sections; wherein the section that corresponds to each text string includes at least a part of the text string; for each text string in the plurality of text strings, associating a score that is based at least in part on the weight that is associated with the section that corresponds to the text string; determining a title in the document; for a particular text string in the plurality of text strings, determining the score based, at least in part, on a number of words in the particular text string that are in the title in the document; based, at least in part, on the score associated with each text string of the plurality of text strings, selecting one or more text strings, from the plurality of text strings, for generating an abstract or summary of the document; generating the abstract or summary of the document based, at least in part, on the one or more text strings; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.