Patent Document ID: 9946770
Application ID: 14490428

Base Claim:
1. A method for searching key words, comprising: obtaining, by a terminal device, a key word typed in a search box; sending, by the terminal device, a search request based on the obtained key word; obtaining, by the terminal device, a first set of directly associated words of the key word from a keyword database based on a matching between the search request and the keyword database, and obtaining a summary extracted from search results queried using the first set of directly associated words; obtaining, by the terminal device, a second set of indirectly associated words of the key word; displaying, by the terminal device as a list, the first set of directly associated words and the second set of indirectly associated words along with but below the first set of directly associated words in the search box; upon displaying the list, triggering a time measurement by the terminal device to acquire a user dwell time on the displayed first set of associated words; monitoring and determining that the user dwell time on the displayed directly associated words has reached a predetermined threshold user dwell time; and displaying, by the terminal device upon determining that the user dwell time has reached the predetermined threshold user dwell time, the summary extracted from the search results along with the displayed first set of associated words.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of directly associated words of the key word comprise word groups in the keyword database having at least one word matching the key word.