Method and System for Hierarchical Document Management in a Document Review System

• US 20080222168A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altep, Inc. (Consilio LLC)
• Original Assignee: Altep, Inc. (Consilio LLC)
• Inventors: Morales, David A.
• Application Number:
  US12/038,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222168A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing

Abstract

A method and machine-readable medium for reviewing documents are described. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a plurality of documents; for each document in the plurality of documents: determining if the document is attached to a parent document; if the document is not attached to a parent document, creating a root node in a hierarchy corresponding to the document; and if the document is attached to a parent document, creating a child node in the hierarchy corresponding to the attached document, the child node being inserted as a child of the node corresponding to the parent document; and selecting a first document; and performing an action on the first document and any documents having a specified relationship to the first document based on the hierarchy. In other embodiments, the process includes a machine-readable medium that provides instructions for a processor, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method of the present invention.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a plurality of documents;

for each document in the plurality of documents;

determining if the document is attached to a parent document;

if the document is not attached to a parent document, creating a root node in a hierarchy corresponding to the document; and

if the document is attached to a parent document, creating a child node in the hierarchy corresponding to the attached document, the child node being inserted as a child of the node corresponding to the parent document; and

selecting a first document; and

performing an action on the first document and at least one of the documents having a specified relationship to the first document based on the hierarchy.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the action is displaying at least a portion of the hierarchy.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the action is tagging the documents.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a child relationship.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a sibling relationship.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a descendant relationship.

7. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions for a processor, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a plurality of documents;

for each document in the plurality of documents;

determining if the document is attached to another document;

if the document is not attached to another document, creating a root node in a hierarchy corresponding to the document; and

if the document is attached to a parent document, creating a child node in the hierarchy corresponding to the attached document, the child node being inserted as a child of the node corresponding to the parent document; and

selecting a first document; and

performing an action on the first document and at least one of the documents having a specified relationship to the first document based on the hierarchy.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the action is displaying at least a portion of the hierarchy.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the action is tagging the documents.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a child relationship.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a sibling relationship.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 wherein the specified relationship to the first document is a descendant relationship.