Patents Assigned to Elsevier, Inc.
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Patent number: 9336305Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Wasson, Harry R. Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20160098407Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry R. Silver
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Publication number: 20160085739Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Richard D. Miller, Thomas J. Goedde, Jacob Aaron Myers, Gaurav Mehra, Lisa Peterson
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Publication number: 20160080387Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Mark McCray, Eric Scott Davis
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Publication number: 20160055202Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Dihan Marie Rosenburg, Scott Edward Meiser, Susan Marie Slisz, Daren William Keenan, Raymond A. Daley, Michael Ronald Sluterbeck, Saravanan Chidambaram, Mina Tonsaly, David L. Schmeer, John Scott Attenborough, Sanjay Sharma, James Antony Ritchie
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Publication number: 20160048518Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Richard D. Miller, Philip Wittmer, Michael Sluterbeck, Jacob Aaron Myers
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Patent number: 9262390Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Narasimha R. Edala, Donald Loritz, Srinivas Edala, Patrick Simpson
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Publication number: 20160034567Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Richard D. Miller, Christopher Scott Basham, Jacob Aaron Myers, Sanjay Sharma
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Patent number: 9223857Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Thomas J. Goedde, Richard D. Miller, Jacob Aaron Myers, Gaurav Mehra, Lisa Peterson
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Patent number: 9208460Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Dihan Marie Rosenburg, Scott Edward Meiser, Susan Marie Slisz, Daren William Keenan, Raymond A. Daley, Michael Ronald Sluterbeck, Saravanan Chidambaram, Mina Tonsaly, David L. Schmeer, John Scott Attenborough, Sanjay Sharma, James Antony Ritchie
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Patent number: 9208344Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, A Division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Mark McCray, Eric Scott Davis
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Patent number: 9201969Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions described herein relate to surfacing a set of documents ranked by their relative value calculated as a tabulation of how often they are cited for a specific purpose. In one embodiment a computer machine is configured to receive a query as computer machine input, automatically determine at least one concept contained within the query and automatically normalize the at least one concept contained within the query, thus creating at least one normalized concept. The computer machine is further configured to automatically compare the at least one normalized concept to at least one document centric concept profile associated with the set of content items in the corpora; and automatically surface a set of documents matching the document centric concept profile. The set of documents are ranked according to a reference value assigned to each document for a normalized concept.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry R. Silver
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Patent number: 9195718Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Richard D. Miller, Christopher Scott Basham, Jacob Aaron Myers, Sanjay Sharma
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Publication number: 20150317320Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Richard D. Miller, Jacob Aaron Myers, Travis Shane Ritchie, Todd J. Frascone
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Publication number: 20150294017Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Patent number: 9141728Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for creating an adaptive thesaurus. A term pair including an index term and an expansion term is received. A recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity of the term pair are calculated using a processor. Whether to store the term pair is determined based on the recall gain, the expansion independence, and the semantic similarity. The term pair is stored based on the determination. Methods and systems are provided for searching using an adaptive thesaurus. A search query including a query term is received. An expansion term stored in association with an index term matching the query term in the adaptive thesaurus is retrieved. Using a processor, the search query is expanded using the expansion term based on a recall gain, an expansion independence, and a semantic similarity.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Donald Loritz, Shian-jung Chen, Narasimha Edala, Harry Silver
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Patent number: 9122666Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Kerry-Tyerman, Sanjay Sharma
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Patent number: 9098570Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20150205965Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: William Kilgallon, Roger Cass
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Patent number: 9053179Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Lavanya Koppaka