US 11,789,946 B2
Answer facts from structured content
Jayant Madhavan, San Francisco, CA (US); Hongrae Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US); Sreeram Viswanath Balakrishnan, Los Altos, CA (US); and Warren H. Y. Shen, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/650,939.
Application 17/650,939 is a continuation of application No. 16/881,899, filed on May 22, 2020, granted, now 11,249,993.
Application 16/881,899 is a continuation of application No. 15/881,315, filed on Jan. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,698,888, issued on Jun. 30, 2020.
Application 15/881,315 is a continuation of application No. 14/824,538, filed on Aug. 12, 2015, granted, now 9,916,348, issued on Mar. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/036,968, filed on Aug. 13, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0171779 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24522 (2019.01) [G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a natural language query determined to be a question query that seeks an answer response and data identifying documents determined to be responsive to the natural language query and ordered according to a ranking, the natural language query having query terms;
identifying a structured content set from the documents that includes a first attribute having a first value that matches a first query term and a second attribute that matches a second query term;
generating, from the structured content set, a structured fact that includes a second value of a plurality of values for the second attribute from the structured content set and the first value, the second value being related to the first value in the structured content set; and
providing the structured fact as a search result for the natural language query.