Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for scoring an individual interaction session between a user and a software program are disclosed. A method includes recording, by a processing device, one or more actions undertaken by the user with the software program to obtain recorded session data, determining, by the processing device in real-time, one or more metrics that correspond to at least one of the one or more actions undertaken by the user with the software program, measuring, by the processing device, the one or more actions undertaken by the user based on the one or more metrics to obtain metric data, and providing, by the processing device, the recorded session data and the metric data as an input for one or more of a machine learning algorithm and a predictive analytic algorithm. The one or more of the machine learning algorithm and the predictive analytic algorithm scores the individual interaction session.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing automatic document filling functionality are described. A method includes providing, by a processing device, an integrated interface that includes a document editing component having a document display area for displaying a document and one or more document editing features for editing a document and a document fill component having contents that elicit one or more inputs that are used to fill the document. The method further includes receiving, via the document fill component of the integrated interface, one or more inputs that correspond to data to be inputted into the document, determining, by the processing device, one or more locations within the document to input the data, and inserting the data into the one or more locations within the document.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for identifying a document are described. A method includes receiving a query from a graphical user interface having one or more concepts, normalizing a set of terms or concepts in the query to create a normalized query, comparing the normalized query to a set of document centric concept profiles associated with a set of documents in a corpus, where each document centric concept includes a plurality of concepts and at least one reference value for each concept, where the reference value is calculated by tabulating the number of times a document associated with one of the document centric concept profiles is cited by a citing instance for the concept, and surfacing a document from the corpus with the highest reference value for the concept.

Abstract: A system and method for verbatim-text mining including parsing documents of a text corpus into a plurality of individual sentences, assigning a sentence identifier to one or more individual sentences of the plurality of individual sentences, generating a plurality of n-Gram strings comprising a plurality of n-Grams from words within the individual sentence, applying an inverted index to the n-Gram string, combining an index data structure of one n-Gram string with an index data structure of another n-Gram string forming a merged index data structure when the index data structure of one n-Gram string shares a predetermined percentage of sentence identifiers of the index data structure of another n-Gram string, assigning a group identifier to the merged index data structure of a one or more merged index data structures, and creating a data set comprising the sentence identifier, the group identifier and the associated n-Gram string.

Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting private data behind a privacy firewall are disclosed. A system for implementing a privacy firewall to determine and provide non-private information from private electronic data includes a data storage repository, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The storage medium includes programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to analyze a corpus of private electronic data to identify a first one or more portions of the data having non-private information and a second one or more portions of the data having private information, tag the first one or more portions of the data as allowed for use, determine whether the second one or more portions of the data includes non-private elements, and if the second one or more portions of the data comprises non-private elements, extract the non-private elements and tag the non-private elements as information allowed for use.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for identifying a document are described. A method includes receiving a query from a graphical user interface having one or more concepts, normalizing a set of terms or concepts in the query to create a normalized query, comparing the normalized query to a set of document centric concept profiles associated with a set of documents in a corpus, where each document centric concept includes a plurality of concepts and at least one reference value for each concept, where the reference value is calculated by tabulating the number of times a document associated with one of the document centric concept profiles is cited by a citing instance for the concept, and surfacing a document from the corpus with the highest reference value for the concept.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting private data behind a privacy firewall are disclosed. A system for implementing a privacy firewall to determine and provide non-private information from private electronic data includes a data storage repository, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The storage medium includes programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to analyze a corpus of private electronic data to identify a first one or more portions of the data having non-private information and a second one or more portions of the data having private information, tag the first one or more portions of the data as allowed for use, determine whether the second one or more portions of the data includes non-private elements, and if the second one or more portions of the data comprises non-private elements, extract the non-private elements and tag the non-private elements as information allowed for use.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Computer programs for searching a collection of electronic documents are disclosed. A computer program for searching a collection of electronic documents, includes instructions that cause the computer to carry out steps of: replacing a set of synonymous terms appearing in a paragraph with a set of standardized paragraph terms, where each standardized paragraph term has an associated term weight and generating standardized search terms in response to a search query, generating paragraph scores for paragraphs of a document based at least in part on the associated weights of standardized paragraph terms that match one or more of the standardized search terms. The computer program further includes determining overall document scores for the electronic documents based at least in part on a combination of the paragraph scores, and determining a set of matching documents, wherein the set of matching documents is ordered using the overall document scores.

Abstract: A system and method for verbatim-text mining including parsing documents of a text corpus into a plurality of individual sentences, assigning a sentence identifier to one or more individual sentences of the plurality of individual sentences, generating a plurality of n-Gram strings comprising a plurality of n-Grams from words within the individual sentence, applying an inverted index to the n-Gram string, combining an index data structure of one n-Gram string with an index data structure of another n-Gram string forming a merged index data structure when the index data structure of one n-Gram string shares a predetermined percentage of sentence identifiers of the index data structure of another n-Gram string, assigning a group identifier to the merged index data structure of a one or more merged index data structures, and creating a data set comprising the sentence identifier, the group identifier and the associated n-Gram string.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.