Patent ID: 8688698
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computing device, comprising: receiving a text segment and a request to supplement the text segment from an authoring environment, wherein the text segment is a partial sentence from a free-form text entry comprising a plurality of sentences entered into a text editor of the authoring environment, and wherein the request to supplement the text segment is received in response to an indicator, wherein the indicator is a combination of keystrokes entered by an author, signaling a request for suggestions; submitting a query to a search engine, the query being generated from the text segment; receiving a plurality of search results from the search engine in response to the query, each search result including an information snippet based on an information source corresponding to the search result; generating one or more suggestions for supplementing the text segment from the information snippets, including: providing the one or more suggestions for supplementing the text segment for display in the authoring environment.