Systems, methods, and software for presenting legal case histories

US8661066B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• West Services Inc. · US

Inventors

• Forrest Rhoads · North Oaks, US
• Daniel Gannon · Windom, US
• Paul Werner · Remscheid, DE
• Steve Hestness · Apple Valley, US
• Kimberly Anne Kothe · Cottage Grove, US
• Jonathan James Medin · Nerstrand, US
• Nick Bieter · Windom, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/951
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically processing a textual document by identifying occurrences of a piece of text having a predetermined format in the textual document; determining a depth-of-treatment value for each piece of formatted text in the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value indicating a depth of treatment in the textual document afforded to the particular piece of formatted text; associating an abstract with each piece of formatted text in the textual document; and generating a data record containing each identified piece of formatted text from the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value and the abstract associated with each piece of formatted text in the textual document.