Patent Document ID: 8024178
Application ID: 12636926

Base Claim:
1. A method, performed by one or more server or client devices, for completing fragments of text, the method comprising: obtaining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, a text fragment; identifying, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, one or more documents based, at least in part on the text fragment; identifying, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, sentences within the one or more documents that include the text fragment; determining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, sentence endings associated with the identified sentences; determining a measure of popularity for each of the sentence endings, where the measure of popularity for one of the sentence endings is based, at least in part, on a quantity of documents within a document corpus that includes the one of the sentence endings; ordering the sentence endings based, at least in part, on the determined measure of popularity for each of the sentence endings; and presenting, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server or client devices, the ordered sentence endings as potential completions for the text fragment.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: identifying two or more of the sentence endings that have text in common; and merging the identified two or more sentence endings into a merged sentence ending, and where presenting includes: presenting the merged sentence ending as a potential completion for the text fragment.