Patent Document ID: 8090724
Application ID: 11946637

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving an ordered collection of text-based terms; analyzing groupings of consecutive text-based terms in the ordered collection to identify occurrences of different combinations of consecutive text-based terms in the ordered collection; and maintaining frequency information representing the occurrences of the different combinations of consecutive text-based terms in the collection.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the ordered collection includes receiving a first text-based term, a second text-based term and a third text-based term, the method further comprising: producing a first group including the first text-based term and the second text-based term; producing a second group including the second text-based term and the third text-based term; and wherein analyzing groupings of consecutive text-based terms in the ordered collection includes analyzing the first group and the second group.