Patents Assigned to LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
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Publication number: 20140195519Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Michael Edward Holt, Craig Woollard
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Publication number: 20140149403Abstract: 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: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: 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: 8732194Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: LexisNexis, a Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20140114962Abstract: 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: October 19, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: 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: 20140006521Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering an entity report associated with an attendee of a calendared event are disclosed. A method for delivering an entity report associated with an attendee of a calendared event includes determining, by a computer, an entity associated with the attendee of the calendared event. The method further includes retrieving, by the computer, entity data based on the determined entity and generating the entity report. The entity report includes the retrieved entity data. The method further includes delivering the generated report.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventor: Todd Stowe
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Patent number: 8620902Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventor: Robert Drumheller
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Patent number: 8600972Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for document searching. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides keyword searching. The method may receive a plurality of noisy keywords for a document collection. A server may generate tokens for a plurality of keywords in the document collection and merge the tokens to create an index. A search query may be received. The search query may include at least one search phrase. For the at least one search phrase, an indication may be received from a user specifying to perform one of a noisy phrase search or a noiseless phrase search. The method may search the index for the at least one search phrase based on the indication received from the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventor: David James Miller
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Patent number: 8577864Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.Inventors: Gaurav Mehra, John Alexander Dalessio, Molly Miller, Alison Manchester
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Patent number: 8527513Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for lexicon generation. More specifically, at least one embodiment of a method includes determining a corpus term from a plurality of documents, generating a candidate term from the corpus term, and selecting a normalized term from the candidate term and the corpus term. Some embodiments include linking the normalized term with the candidate term and providing an electronic search capability for locating a first document, where the electronic search capability receives the candidate term as a search term and utilizes the normalized term to locate the first document.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver
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Patent number: 8478749Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for ranking documents according to relevancy scoring. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for receiving search results identifying a plurality of documents resulting from a search, the plurality of documents containing one or more words. The method generates a first matrix containing a term column and a document column, wherein at least one row of the first matrix correlates one of the plurality of documents with one of the terms. The method selects a sort preference, and sorts the two-column matrix according to the sort preference. The method further generates a second matrix containing values representing a measure of overlap between the plurality of documents and the terms. The method further calculates cumulative confidence scores according to the values of the second matrix and ranks the search results according to the cumulative confidence scores.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Narasimha Edala, Donald Loritz, David James Miller
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Publication number: 20130144909Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventor: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.
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Publication number: 20130138692Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventor: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.
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Publication number: 20130104019Abstract: 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: May 16, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20130103720Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventor: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
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Publication number: 20130067548Abstract: 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: September 9, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventors: Mark McCray, Eric Scott Davis
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Patent number: 8396889Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, Timothy L. Humphrey
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Patent number: 8396882Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Paul Zhang, Harry Silver, David Steiner
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Publication number: 20130013999Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Kerry-Tyerman, Sanjay Sharma
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Publication number: 20120310920Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: LEXISNEXIS, A DIVISION OF REED ELSEVIER INC.Inventor: Robert Drumheller
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Patent number: RE44394Abstract: A “More Like This Headnote” search relates online headnotes intelligently so that users have the means to retrieve related headnotes quickly and easily. This is achieved by using a tailored search type in the search engine, which is designed to handle the text of a headnote as a search string. Retrieval logic then presents the search results to the user in a “Virtual Digest” view comprising related headnotes and case materials, sorted by user-selected options.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.Inventors: David J. Miller, Harry Silver, Andrew Freisthler