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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Ofek, Rehovot, IL;

Benedict A. Gomes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Tal Cohen, Atlit, IL;

Anna Bendersky, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;

Asaph Arnon, Givataim, IL;

Nitsan Oz, Haifa, IL;

Oren Naim, Zichron Yaakov, IL;

Amitabh K. Singhal, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Zvi Ben-Haim, Haifa, IL;

Ziv Bar-Yossef, Herzliya, IL;

Matan Kalman, Kfar Saba, IL;

Gil Simha Briskin, Petach Tikva, IL;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing answer boxes based on query results. One of the methods includes receiving seed queries for an answer box; analyzing query log information, wherein analyzing query log information comprises identifying query results that have been provided in response to the seed queries; identifying one or more of the query results as answer box indicators based on the analyses of the query log information, wherein the answer box indicators are indicators for the answer box; and storing data identifying the one or more query results as answer box indicators for the answer box.


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