Patent Document ID: 8775436
Application ID: 12195167

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by one or more processors, a caption associated with an image included in a document in a cluster of documents; generating, by one or more processors, a first score for the image based on a size of the image; generating, by the one or more processors, a second score for the image based on a distance between the image and a title of the document; generating, by the one or more processors, a third score for the image based on the caption associated with the image; generating, by the one or more processors, an overall score for the image based on the first score, the second score, and the third score; identifying, by one or more processors, the image for being representative of the cluster based on the overall score; and associating, by one or more processors, the image with the cluster as being a representative image of the cluster.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving a search query; generating a list of search results based on the search query, the list of search results including information regarding documents in the cluster, and the documents including the document that includes the image; generating a search result document that includes the list of search results, the search result document presenting the representative image with the information regarding the documents in the cluster; and outputting the search result document.