Webpage Snippet Synthesis Using Sub-Page Title Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current search engines often provide limited context in search results, as snippets for webpages may not effectively utilize sub-page information, leading to less informative descriptions for users.
Innovation Solution
A method where server devices identify sub-pages associated with a particular webpage, determine titles for these sub-pages, and select a set based on specific criteria such as link structure, quality, and title length to generate a synthesized snippet that provides a more informative description.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional snippet generation methods are used, then the snippet generation process is simple, but the snippet provides limited context and is less informative
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the webpage into multiple sub-pages or sections, extracting snippets from each segment. This allows the system to gather comprehensive information from different parts of the webpage while maintaining manageable processing units, thus improving information completeness without overwhelming system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple snippets extracted from different sub-pages or sections into a single comprehensive snippet. This combining process integrates information from various segments to create a more informative and contextualized description, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and processing complexity
2Loss of information
If multiple sub-pages are processed to generate snippets, then the information quality improves, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying and organizing sub-pages or sections of the webpage before snippet extraction. This preparation work is done in advance, allowing the actual snippet generation to proceed more efficiently by working with pre-structured data, thus reducing processing time while maintaining information quality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by selectively processing only the most relevant sub-pages or sections rather than entire webpages. This targeted approach extracts sufficient context information from key segments without the computational overhead of processing all content, balancing information quality with processing efficiency
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AI summary
A server device is configured to identify sub-pages corresponding to a particular webpage, where the particular webpage and the identified sub-pages may be associated with a same website; determine titles for the identified sub-pages; process the identified sub-pages to select a set of sub-pages, of the identified sub-pages, to use to generate a snippet for the particular webpage, where each webpage, in the set of sub-pages, may satisfy particular criteria, and a quantity of the set of sub-pages may be based on a length of a concatenation of the titles for the set of sub-pages; generate the snippet, for the particular webpage, using the titles for the set of sub-pages; and store the generated snippet in association with the particular webpage, where the generated snippet may be presented in a search result document when the particular webpage is identified as being relevant to a search query.