Patent ID: 8037053
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for generating an online summary of documents, comprising: a central processing unit configured to process information as: a search engine that receives a search query and obtains a list of URLs of web pages as search results; an article summarizer operably coupled to the search engine to generate an online summary of the list of URLs of web pages using a plurality of titles of the web pages; a web page storage operably coupled to the article summarizer that stores the online summary and the list of URLs of web pages as search results; merging overlapping phrases until there may be no more terms that occur in titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold; and applying grammar rules for a language in which the information is expressly merging overlapping phrases until there may be no more terms that occur in the titles with a frequency that exceeds a predefined threshold used to remove a term at the beginning or end of a phrase that should not appear in that position of a sentence in the given language.