A query fragment is the basic input unit into which a submitted description is split for matching and billing purposes. It is important to encapsulate individual components of your idea into a query fragment for best results. Specifically, a description is split into query fragments using commas, colons, semicolons as boundaries then merging text between these boundaries as needed to ensure no query fragment has fewer than six informative terms. This approach has been observed to work well with most published independent claims, so it is advisable to mimic the composition of these for your own idea descriptions.