Internet-user accessible system database computer method and system for analyzing government legsilationand legislative documents, statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments

• US 20110078142A1
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Litcentral, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Litcentral, Inc.
• Inventors: Hillary, Robin, McCarthy, Michelle
• Granted Patent: US 8,019,755 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The present invention relates to a computer method and system for analyzing, critiquing and providing feedback on or for government legislation and legislative documents, statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments hereto for referred to as legislation or legislative document, and more particularly, to a computer method and system for quantifying key components and sections within the legislation or legislative document. This computer method and system works in conjunction with a document management system. This computer method and system quantifies the feedback of the user based on a single user or multiple users'"'"' opinion. The result is a computerized document in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated, managed and distributed electronically. The key component used to quantify feedback is a scoring tool with a set of criteria and standards used to assess the legislation or legislative document.

Claims

1. A computer method in a document management system for analyzing, critiquing and quantifying government legislation or legislative documents (i.e. statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments), comprising:

using declarative statements in order to objectify feedback;

applying a numeric value to each declarative statement in order to objectify feedback;

producing an overall grade by using a running calculation of each section within the scoring system;

merging the quantified opinion of multiple users;

providing a standard set of criteria on which to form a fundamental basis for agreement;

applying descriptive tags to selected text for the purposes of tracking a reviewer'"'"'s opinion;

calculating each descriptive tag to quantify the reviewer'"'"'s overall feedback;

tagging selected text with frequent words/comments;

choosing selected text for comments and feedback;

creating a detailed computerized document, in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated and distributed electronically;

compiling quantified feedback for tracking trends, searching, archiving and enhancing the system database.

2. A computer system in a document management system for analyzing, critiquing and quantifying government legislation or legislative documents (i.e. statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments), comprising:

using declarative statements in order to objectify feedback;

applying a numeric value to each declarative statement in order to objectify feedback;

producing an overall grade by using a running calculation of each section within the scoring system;

merging the quantified opinion of multiple users;

providing a standard set of criteria on which to form a fundamental basis for agreement;

applying descriptive tags to selected text for the purposes of tracking a reviewer'"'"'s opinion;

calculating each descriptive tag to quantify the reviewer'"'"'s overall feedback;

tagging selected text with frequent words/comments;

choosing selected text for comments and feedback;

creating a detailed computerized document, in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated and distributed electronically;

compiling quantified feedback for tracking trends, searching, archiving and enhancing the system database.