The document discusses several design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Chain of Responsibility, Adapter, Strategy, Composite, and Observer patterns. It provides descriptions of each pattern including their intent, participants, relationships between participants, and examples. The Singleton pattern ensures only one instance of a class is created while the Factory pattern abstracts object creation. Chain of Responsibility passes requests between handlers in a chain until one handles it. Adapter converts one interface to another while Strategy makes behaviors interchangeable. Composite represents part-whole hierarchies and Observer notifies dependents of state changes.