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20160140210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL MATERIAL FACTS IN DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods to identify potential material fact sentences in electronic legal documents obtained from electronic repositories are disclosed. A system includes a processing device and a storage medium in communication with the processing device. The storage medium includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to obtain a document and parse text within the document to determine whether each paragraph in the document is a fact paragraph, a discussion paragraph, or an outcome paragraph based on at least one of a heading associated with the paragraph and features of the paragraph. The storage medium further includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to extract each sentence in the fact paragraph, direct a trained sentence classifier to determine whether each sentence is a potential material fact sentence or a non-material fact sentence based on features of the sentence, and identify potential material fact sentences. | 05-19-2016 |
20160132537 | Systems and Methods for Normalized Schema Comparison - Systems, methods, and media for generating a normalized schema comparison file are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a processing device, an extensible markup language (XML) schema for an XML document. The XML schema includes a content model and one or more internal schema structures and the content model is a specification of one or more XML elements and XML attributes allowed within a conformant XML instance file. The method further includes processing the XML schema to resolve and remove the one or more internal schema structures, determining a standardized structure by identifying a definition for each of one or more XML elements and XML attributes to obtain a plurality of definitions, providing the standardized structure in a normalized schema comparison syntax each of the plurality of definitions in alphabetical order to obtain an arranged plurality of definitions, eliminating any redundant definitions present in the arranged plurality of definitions, and generating a normalized schema comparison file containing the arranged plurality of definitions. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132479 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computer-implemented method of annotating an electronic document may include receiving annotation information corresponding to a first electronic document file and creating annotation metadata that is associated with the annotation information. The method may further include storing the annotation information and associated annotation metadata in an annotation file that is separate from the first electronic document file, and anchoring the annotation information to a target electronic document file at an anchor location corresponding to the annotation metadata. The annotation metadata may be generated by assigning a target offset value to individual neighboring tokens defining an annotation neighborhood, wherein the target offset values correspond to positions of the neighboring tokens with respect to an annotation location within the first electronic document file. The annotation metadata may also comprise topographic patterns that are compared between source and target documents to determine the anchor location. | 05-12-2016 |
20160098407 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Documents Based on Citation History - Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by surfacing a set of documents ranked by their relative value calculated as a tabulation of how often they are cited for a specific purpose. A database management system can access an index of metadata corresponding to a set of content items in a corpus/corpora of electronically stored content. A sub-system is configured to receive a query request entered by a user in said interactive GUI. A computer machine is configured to receive said query as computer machine input; automatically determine at least one concept contained within said query; automatically normalize said at least one concept contained within said query thus creating at least one normalized concept; automatically compare said at least one normalized concept to a set of metadata comprising at least one document centric concept profile associated with said set of content items in said corpora; and automatically surface a set of documents, comprising at least one first document, matching said document centric concept profile via said GUI wherein said set of documents are ranked according to a reference value assigned to each document for a normalized concept. | 04-07-2016 |
20160085739 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL GRID REPRESENTATION OF THE TREATMENT OF A DOCUMENT - Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of a document are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to generate the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to at least one variable. In response to the received request, the method further includes retrieving, by a computer, treatment information associated with the document with respect to the at least one variable from a database. The method further includes generating a message containing the retrieved treatment information of the document with respect to the at least one variable, transmitting the generated message, and providing for display the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to the at least one variable based on the transmitted message. | 03-24-2016 |
20160080387 | Database Access Using A Common Web Interface - Methods and systems for accessing databases using a common web interface are provided. A method for transmitting data retrieved from an endpoint device to a client device using a common web interface includes providing the common web interface to the client device. The common web interface allows access to a plurality of endpoint devices, each endpoint device comprising a unique endpoint address. The method further includes receiving, by a computer, identification data from the client device, retrieving an endpoint address for one of the plurality of endpoint devices based on the identification data, connecting to the endpoint device corresponding to the endpoint address, retrieving data from the endpoint device, and transmitting the retrieved data to the client device. | 03-17-2016 |
20160055202 | System and Method to Facilitate Analytics with a Tagged Corpus - The disclosed embodiments provide a set of methods, systems, data structures, and computer-executable instructions for executing on a compute machine to automatically analyze data associated with an indexed corpora and to generate for graphical display a set of results associated with those analytic operations. | 02-25-2016 |
20160048518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FOR DISPLAY HIERARCHICAL VIEWS OF CONTENT ORGANIZATION NODES ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURED CONTENT AND FOR DETERMINING ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFIERS FOR CAPTURED CONTENT - Systems and methods for providing for display hierarchical views of content organization nodes associated with captured content and for determining organizational identifiers for captured content are disclosed. A method includes providing a hierarchical taxonomy including a plurality of nodes. The method further includes receiving a plurality of captured content items. The method further includes associating a plurality of content organization nodes from the plurality of nodes with the plurality of captured content items. Each of the plurality of captured content items is associated with at least one of the plurality of content organization nodes. The method further includes providing for display a hierarchical view including the plurality of content organization nodes. The hierarchical view includes, for each of the plurality of content organization nodes, a graphical representation that the content organization node is associated with at least one of the plurality of captured content items. | 02-18-2016 |
20160034567 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 02-04-2016 |
20150317320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING ESTIMATED RELEVANCE INDICATORS FOR RESULT SETS OF DOCUMENTS AND FOR DISPLAYING QUERY VISUALIZATIONS - Systems and methods for displaying estimated relevance indicators for result sets of documents and for displaying query visualizations are disclosed. A method includes receiving a search query including a plurality of query terms. The method further includes searching a database using the search query to identify the result set of documents and calculating an estimated relevance score for the result set of documents. The estimated relevance score is indicative of a degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query. The method further includes providing for display the estimated relevance indicator based on the estimated relevance score. The estimated relevance indicator provides a visual indication of the degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query. Query visualizations including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of connectors are also disclosed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150294017 | Systems and Methods for Paragraph-Based Document Searching - A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display. | 10-15-2015 |
20150205965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OVERALL RISK MODIFICATION AMOUNTS - Systems and computer-implemented methods for determining overall risk modification indicative of an amount by which an overall risk associated with a plurality of threats is modified by implementing a combination of security controls are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of individual risk modification amounts. Each individual risk modification amount corresponds to a corresponding security control of the combination of security controls and a corresponding threat of the plurality of threats. Each individual risk modification amount of the plurality of individual risk modification amounts is indicative of an amount by which a risk associated with the corresponding threat is modified by implementing the corresponding security control. The method further includes determining, automatically by a computer, the overall risk modification amount based on the plurality of individual risk modification amounts. | 07-23-2015 |
20150095968 | Flexible Role Based Authorization Model - Systems and methods described herein relate to role-based authorization systems which allow customization of role templates as well as the ability, using roles, for one user to act on behalf of another user. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095328 | Systems and Methods for Ranking Documents - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for ranking documents. An exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of queries from a user that are related to a search topic. The queries are compared to a plurality of documents stored in a database to identify candidate documents that match one or more of the queries. The number of matching queries is determined for the candidate documents. The candidate documents are ranked, using a computer processor, for relevance to the search topic based at least on the number of matching queries for each respective candidate document. | 04-02-2015 |
20150088875 | System and Method For Ranking Search Results Within Citation Intensive Document Collections - Systems and methods facilitate a search and identify documents and associated metadata reflecting content of the documents. In one implementation, a method receives a query comprising a set of search terms, identifies a stored document in response to the query, and determines a score value for the retrieved document based on a similarity between one or more of the query search terms and metadata associated with the identified document. The method locates the identified document in a citation network of baseline query results, the citation network comprising a first set of documents that cite to the identified document and a second set of documents cited to by the identified document. The method further determines a new score value of the identified document as a function of the score value and a quantity and a quality of documents within the first and second set of documents. | 03-26-2015 |
20150039605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 02-05-2015 |
20140337318 | Systems and Methods For Generating Issue Networks - Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network. | 11-13-2014 |
20140317097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE SEARCHING OF PATENT-RELATED DOCUMENTS - In one embodiment, a method for searching for drawings found in a set of patent-related documents includes receiving a search query, and searching a parts index for part names matching one or more terms in the search query. The method further includes displaying one or more drawings, wherein the one or more drawings include at least one part name within the search query and the part name is stored within the parts index. In another embodiment, a method for searching for drawings includes receiving a request to search for drawings relating to a select drawing of a patent-related document, extracting parts information from the select drawing, and comparing the extracted parts information with parts information stored in a parts index. The method further includes determining that one or more drawings are similar to the select drawing, and displaying the one or more drawings. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317096 | METHODS AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SEARCHING PATENT-RELATED DOCUMENTS USING SEARCH TERM VARIANTS - In one embodiment, a method of searching for patent-related documents stored in a document corpus include receiving, by a computing device, a search query comprising a first term and a second term, wherein the search query indicates that the first term is an equivalent of the second term, searching the document corpus for patent-related documents wherein the first term is used interchangeably with the second term, and preparing for display a list of one or more patent-related documents. In yet another embodiment, a method of searching a parts thesaurus, includes receiving, by a computing device, a search query including a search term, and searching the parts thesaurus for term variants of the search term. The method further includes preparing for display term variants of the search term found in the parts thesaurus. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317001 | METHODS FOR EVALUATING TERM SUPPORT IN PATENT-RELATED DOCUMENTS - In one embodiment, a method of evaluating a term in a patent-related document includes receiving a selected term, generating one or more variant suggestions related to the selected term, displaying the one or more variant suggestions, receiving one or more selected variant suggestions from the one or more variant suggestions, and associating the one or more selected variant suggestions with the selected term. In another embodiment, a method of evaluating a term in a patent-related document includes displaying a list of terms appearing in a first patent-related document and a second patent-related document, displaying a graphical representation of whether or not individual terms in the list of terms appear in the first patent-related document or the second patent-related document, and receiving a selected term from the list of terms. The method further includes displaying one or more variant suggestions related to the selected term. | 10-23-2014 |
20140281936 | Computer Program Products And Methods For Displaying Digital Looseleaf Content - Computer program products and methods for displaying information relating to one or more digital looseleafs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer usable medium having computer readable instructions embodied therein. The computer readable instructions cause a processor to display of a first table of contents page of a digital looseleaf. In response to receipt of a user selection of a representation of an individual one of the plurality of main sections, a second table of contents page is displayed overtop the first table of contents page such that an edge portion of the first table of contents page is unobstructed by the second table of contents page. In response to receipt of a user input in the edge portion of the first table of contents page, an entirety of the first table of contents page is displayed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140236964 | Systems And Methods For Ranking A Plurality Of Documents Based On User Activity - Systems and methods for ranking a plurality of documents based on user activity are disclosed. A method includes receiving first user activity data and second user activity data. A first user activity point value is associated with the first user activity. A second user activity point value is associated with the second user activity. The method further includes identifying a first data item based on the first user activity data, identifying a second data item based on the second user activity data, updating a first score of the first data item based on the first user activity point value, updating a second score of the second data item based on the second user activity point value, identifying the plurality of documents based on the first data item and the second data item, and ranking the plurality of documents based on the first score and the second score. | 08-21-2014 |
20140214825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS BASED ON CITATION HISTORY - Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by surfacing a set of documents ranked by their relative value calculated as a tabulation of how often they are cited for a specific purpose. A database management system can access an index of metadata corresponding to a set of content items in a corpus/corpora of electronically stored content. A sub-system is configured to receive a query request entered by a user in said interactive GUI. A computer machine is configured to receive said query as computer machine input; automatically determine at least one concept contained within said query; automatically normalize said at least one concept contained within said query thus creating at least one normalized concept; automatically compare said at least one normalized concept to a set of metadata comprising at least one document centric concept profile associated with said set of content items in said corpora; and automatically surface a set of documents, comprising at least one first document, matching said document centric concept profile via said GUI wherein said set of documents are ranked according to a reference value assigned to each document for a normalized concept. | 07-31-2014 |
20140195519 | Search Query Generation Using Query Segments and Semantic Suggestions - Methods and computer program products for generating a search query are provided. A method includes receiving a first string of characters inputted into a text input field of a graphical user interface, wherein the first string of characters represents a first portion of the search query. One or more query suggestions based on the first string of characters are displayed within the graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a selected first query suggestion and displaying it in a first query segment within the text input field. A second string of characters inputted into the text input field of the graphical user interface may also be received. One or more second query suggestions based on the second string of characters may be displayed. A selected second query suggestion may be received from the one or more second query suggestions and then displayed in a second query segment. | 07-10-2014 |
20140149403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND VISUALIZING ELEMENTS OF QUERY RESULTS - The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents. | 05-29-2014 |
20140114962 | System and Methods to Facilitate Analytics with a Tagged Corpus - The disclosed embodiments provide a set of methods, systems, data structures, and computer-executable instructions for executing on a compute machine to automatically analyze data associated with an indexed corpora and to generate for graphical display a set of results associated with those analytic operations. | 04-24-2014 |
20140006521 | Systems and Methods for Delivering An Entity Report Associated With An Attendee Of A Calendared Event | 01-02-2014 |
20130144909 | Systems and Methods for Generating Issue Libraries Within a Document Corpus - A computer-implemented method of generating an issue library from a corpus of documents defining a citation network includes semantically linking, by a computing device, electronic documents within the corpus of documents by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents and storing citation entries associated with the semantically-linked electronic documents in a citation-pairing metadata file. The method may further include searching the citation-pairing metadata file for reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue to thereby group similar documents and reasons-for-citing by issue, and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in a plurality of issue library metadata entities. Each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue. | 06-06-2013 |
20130138692 | METHODS FOR SEMANTICS-BASED CITATION-PAIRING INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method of semantically linking, by a computing device, a citing document to a cited document in a corpus of documents includes locating at least one citation present in the citing document, determining a reason-for-citing for at least one citation, and determining a cited-text-area present in the cited document, wherein the cited-text-area corresponds with the reason-for-citing. The method further includes populating a citation entry of a citation-pairing metadata file with a citing-document identifier, a reason-for-citing identifier, a cited-document identifier, and a cited-text-area identifier. The citation-pairing metadata file includes a plurality of citation entries and is stored separately from the citing document and the cited document. | 05-30-2013 |
20130104019 | Systems and Methods For Generating A Two-Dimensional Graphical Grid Representation Of The Treatment Of A Document - Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of a document are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to generate the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to at least one variable. In response to the received request, the method further includes retrieving, by a computer, treatment information associated with the document with respect to the at least one variable from a database. The method further includes generating a message containing the retrieved treatment information of the document with respect to the at least one variable, transmitting the generated message, and providing for display the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to the at least one variable based on the transmitted message. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103720 | Systems and Methods For Providing For Display A Map That Graphically Represents The Association Among Documents - Systems and methods for providing for display a map that graphically represents the association among documents are disclosed. A method for providing for display a map that graphically represents the association between a first document and a second document that analyzes the first document includes receiving, at a computer, a request to generate the map. The method further includes retrieving, from a database, analysis information related to the way in which the second document analyzed the first document, in response to the received request. The method further includes providing for display the map. The map includes a first node, a second node, and a connector. The first node corresponds to the first document. The second node corresponds to the second document. The connector graphically links the first node and the second node. The second node includes a graphical representation of the analysis information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130067548 | Database Access Using A Common Web Interface - Methods and systems for accessing databases using a common web interface are provided. A method for transmitting data retrieved from an endpoint device to a client device using a common web interface includes providing the common web interface to the client device. The common web interface allows access to a plurality of endpoint devices, each endpoint device comprising a unique endpoint address. The method further includes receiving, by a computer, identification data from the client device, retrieving an endpoint address for one of the plurality of endpoint devices based on the identification data, connecting to the endpoint device corresponding to the endpoint address, retrieving data from the endpoint device, and transmitting the retrieved data to the client device. | 03-14-2013 |
20130013999 | Systems and Methods for Creating an Annotation From a Document - Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods for annotating a document. Some embodiments include searching a first electronic legal document to determine a first reference to a statute, identifying a portion of the first electronic legal document that includes the first reference to the statute, and copying the portion of the first electronic legal document for inclusion as an annotation to the statute. Similarly, some embodiments include compiling the portion of the first electronic legal document into the annotation to the statute, receiving a request for the statute and providing the annotation for display. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. | 01-10-2013 |
20120310920 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR QUERY COLLECTION OPTIMIZATION - Computer program products and methods for query collection optimization and executing a query collection against one or more electronic documents are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method of executing a query collection having a plurality of full term queries against an electronic document includes receiving the query collection, determining common terms, and searching the electronic document for the common terms in accordance with a frequency that the common terms appear in the query collection. The method further includes, for each common term found in the electronic document, searching the electronic document for full term queries that include the common term that was found in the electronic document. The method further includes, for each common term not found in the electronic document, preventing a search of the electronic document for the full term queries that include the common term that was not found in the electronic document. | 12-06-2012 |
20120296925 | Systems and Methods for Providing A Validation Tool - Systems and methods for providing a validation tool may be configured to identify a plurality of words within a document, the document being provided in a first window within a user interface. Additionally, the systems and methods may be configured to determine, from a predetermined list that includes terms of interest, whether the words are matching words with terms of interest. The systems and methods may, in response to determining that the plurality of words are matching words with the terms of interest, highlight matching words in a document and access pieces of related data for matching words. | 11-22-2012 |
20120254161 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARAGRAPH-BASED DOCUMENT SEARCHING - A computerized method of searching a collection of electronic documents may include comparing search terms to sets of paragraph terms associated with paragraphs in the documents. Search terms and paragraph terms may be standardized, prior to the comparison. The method may also include generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs using term weight values associated with paragraph terms that match search terms, generating paragraph scores for the paragraphs, and using the paragraph scores to generate overall document scores. The method may also include using the overall document scores to determine a set of search results and providing the search results to a display. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253886 | Systems and Methods for Client Development - Included are systems and methods for client development. Some embodiments may include receiving a client roster for an entity, the client roster including a plurality of clients, receiving client billing data for the plurality of clients, and computing billing trend data for the plurality of clients. Similarly, some embodiments are further configured to generate a user interface for display that provides the billing trend data according to a plurality of fields. The user interface may include a filtering user option to alter the user interface by filtering at least one of the plurality of fields and a report option to generate a report that comprises at least a portion of the billing trend data. Similarly, some embodiments are configured to generate the report in response to selection of the report option and alter the report in response to selection of the filtering user option. | 10-04-2012 |
20120246173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING SEARCHES OF A DOCUMENT CORPUS AND GENERATION OF SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods for searching a document corpus and generating search queries are disclosed. A method includes providing for display a graphical user interface having two or more sections, and providing for generation of an initial search query based on locations of query terms entered into the graphical user interface. Sections of the graphical user interface indicate a query status. A revised search query based on a location of the query terms within the graphical user interface is generated following the manipulation of one or more of the query terms. Movement of a selected query term from a first section to a second section of the graphical user interface changes the query status of the selected query term from a first query status to a second query status. A search of the database is performed using the revised search query to return an updated set of electronic documents for display. | 09-27-2012 |
20120221553 | METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCHING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SEARCHES - Methods for electronic document searching and graphically representing an electronic document search are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of graphically representing electronic document searches includes generating a Venn diagram for display on a graphic display device including a first circle that represents a first document set and a second circle that represents a second document set. The first circle overlaps the second circle in an overlap region depicting common electronic documents that are within the first document set and the second document set. The method further includes generating a first visualization chart from the first circle and a second visualization chart from the second circle. The first visualization chart and the second visualization chart depict proportions of the first document set and the second document set according to a user-defined parameter. Additional search queries may be suggested based on similar topics within electronic documents within the Venn diagram. | 08-30-2012 |
20120209784 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Practice Area Option - Included are systems and methods for providing a practice area option. Some embodiments include providing an administrator interface that includes a practice area option to create a custom practice area grouping and providing an intake form option that includes a plurality of information sets. Similarly, some embodiments include providing an option to include the intake form into the custom practice area grouping and in response to receiving an indication to include the intake form into the custom practice area grouping, including the intake form into the custom practice area grouping. At least one embodiment includes providing a user interface for assigning a new client account to the custom practice area grouping and, in response to receiving information for at least one of the plurality of data fields, saving, by a computing device, the new client account. | 08-16-2012 |
20120060082 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computer-implemented method of annotating an electronic document may include receiving annotation information corresponding to a first electronic document file and creating annotation metadata that is associated with the annotation information. The method may further include storing the annotation information and associated annotation metadata in an annotation file that is separate from the first electronic document file, and anchoring the annotation information to a target electronic document file at an anchor location corresponding to the annotation metadata. The annotation metadata may be generated by assigning a target offset value to individual neighboring tokens defining an annotation neighborhood, wherein the target offset values correspond to positions of the neighboring tokens with respect to an annotation location within the first electronic document file. The annotation metadata may also comprise topographic patterns that are compared between source and target documents to determine the anchor location. | 03-08-2012 |
20120011427 | Systems and Methods for Linking Items to a Matter - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for linking items into common matters. Some embodiments of the systems and/or methods may retrieve an electronic document from a source, determine whether the electronic document is associated with a predetermined first matter, and in response to determining that the electronic document is associated with the predetermined first matter, link the electronic document to the predetermined first matter. Similarly, in some embodiments, the systems and methods may further create a second matter and may link the electronic document to the second matter, such that accessing the electronic document can provide other documents linked to the second matter, receive a request for the electronic document, and in response to receiving the request for the electronic document, provide a user option to provide access to the other documents linked to the predetermined first matter. | 01-12-2012 |
20110191369 | Systems and Methods for Providing A Validation Tool - Systems and methods for providing a validation tool may be configured to identify a plurality of words within a document, the document being provided in a first window within a user interface. Additionally, the systems and methods may be configured to determine, from a predetermined list that includes terms of interest, whether the words are matching words with terms of interest. The systems and methods may, in response to determining that the plurality of words are matching words with the terms of interest, highlight matching words in a document and access pieces of related data for matching words. | 08-04-2011 |
20110179035 | CITATION NETWORK VIEWER AND METHOD - A visualization-based interactive legal research tool that generates from a multi-dimensional citation network a semantics-constrained citation sub-network that focuses on one individual issue in which a user is interested, and puts the sub-network on an interactive user interface (“UT”), which allows the researcher to browse, navigate, and jump over to start new sub-networks on different issues that are relevant to original issues. | 07-21-2011 |