Patent Document ID: 8856099
Application ID: 13246797

Base Claim:
1. A method performed by a system comprising one or more computers, the method comprising: analyzing contents of each of a plurality of resources to identify entities of a first entity type that are related to the resource, wherein analyzing the contents of each of the plurality of resources comprises: identifying occurrences of names of entities in the contents of the resource, and determining that each entity whose name occurs in the resource more than a threshold number of occurrences is related to the resource; annotating each of the plurality of resources in an index database with annotations identifying the entities that are related to the resource; determining that a first search query includes a respective text reference to each of one or more predetermined attributes, wherein each attribute is associated with the first entity type; obtaining search results for the first search query from a search engine, the search results identifying a plurality of search result resources; identifying entities of the first entity type that are related to any of the plurality of search result resources identified by the search results; and selecting names of one or more of the identified entities of the first entity type to include in a response to the first search query.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: for each selected entity name, obtaining search results for a search query including the selected entity name; and including one or more search results obtained for one or more of the search queries including the respective selected entity names with the obtained search results for the first search query in the response to the first search query.