Patent Document ID: 8504567
Application ID: 12861774

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining a set of title components for a document; wherein each title component in the set of title components is a text string; classifying each title component of the set of title components into at least one title component class of a plurality of title component classes; selecting a title template from among a plurality of available title templates; wherein the selected title template has one or more title component slots; wherein each title component slot of the one or more title component slots corresponds to one title component class of the plurality of title component classes; generating a candidate title for the document including completing each title component slot of the selected title template with a title component selected from the title component class corresponding to that title component slot; wherein the generated candidate title is a text string having, as sub-text strings, the title components selected to complete the selected title template; selecting the candidate title as a title for the document; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the document is a particular document; the steps of selecting the title template, generating the candidate title, and selecting the candidate title, are performed in response to receiving a query for documents relevant to one or more query terms of the query; the method further comprises, in response to receiving the query, identifying the particular document as a document relevant to the query terms of the query; the step of generating a candidate title for the document includes generating the candidate title for a search result summary of the particular document; the step of selecting the candidate title as the title for the document includes selecting the candidate title as a title for the search result summary of the particular document; and the method further comprises returning a search result that presents the selected title in the search result summary.