METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO DOCUMENT PROCESSING BASED ON A DOCUMENT TYPE

• US 20120179961A1
• Filed: 02/27/2012
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elisa Sartori
• Original Assignee: Jeff Stollman
• Inventors: Stollman, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 9,715,491 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of text from a document. A document type is associated with the document based on at least one of the portion of text or an identifier associated with the document. The method also includes selecting, based on the document type, a document template having a plurality of sections. Each section from the plurality of sections being associated with a document category. At least one section from the plurality of sections including at least one policy preference.

Claims

1-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A method, comprising:

receiving a signal associated with a portion of a document;

determining a meaning of the portion;

selecting a document template based on the portion, the document template being associated with at least one document type; and

sending an indicator to an entity in response to the meaning satisfying a condition associated with the at least one document type.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the determining is based on an identifier associated with the document.

33. The method of claim 31, further comprising:

associating the document with the at least one document type based on at least one of the portion or the identifier associated with the document.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein the receiving includes receiving in response to a request to access content associated with the document.

35. The method of claim 31, wherein the indicator is associated with at least one of a selection of the portion of the document for review, an acceptance of at least one term or section of the portion of the document, or a rejection of at least one term or section of the portion of the document.

36. The method of claim 31, wherein the determining is based on at least one of an ontology or a set of semantic rules.

37. The method of claim 31, wherein the indicator is a first indicator and the condition is a first condition, the method further comprising:

sending a second indicator to the entity in response to the meaning not satisfying a second condition associated with the at least one document type.

38. The method of claim 31, wherein the document template is at least one of a privacy-related contract template, an end-user-license agreement template, a terms and conditions contract template, a lease contract template, or a real property contract template.

39. The method of claim 31, wherein the document template is associated with the at least one document type and at least one policy preference, the condition being associated with the at least one document type and the at least one policy preference.

40. The method of claim 31, wherein the indicator is a recommendation to accept or reject at least one term or section of the portion of the document.

41. An apparatus, comprising:

a parsing module configured to receive, from a document provider, a signal associated with a portion of a document,

the parsing module configured to interpret a meaning of the portion based on a parsing function; and

a template module operatively coupled to the parsing module, the template module configured to compare the meaning of the portion with a document template to determine an action associated with (1) the portion and (2) a policy preference associated with the document template,

the template module configured to send, to a requesting entity, a signal associated with the action.

42. The apparatus of claim 41, further comprising:

a first database operatively coupled to the parsing module, the first database configured to store at least the parsing function; and

a second database operatively coupled to the template module, the second database configured to store at least the document template.

43. The apparatus of claim 41, further comprising:

a preference module operatively coupled to the template module, the preference module configured to send a signal representing the policy preference to the template module.

44. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein the at least one policy preference is at least one of a global policy preference or a user policy preference.

45. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein:

the action is associated with a recommendation to accept or reject at least one term or section of the portion of the document.

46. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein the action is associated with at least one of an indication of at least one portion for review, an acceptance of at least one term or section, or a rejection of at least one term or section.

47. The apparatus of claim 41, wherein the action is associated with a suggested change to the document based at least in part on the policy preference.

48. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor, the code comprising code to cause the processor to:

receive a portion a document;

analyze the portion based on a first parsing function associated with a first document type and a first document template associated with the first document type to produce a first result;

analyze the portion based on a second parsing function associated with a second document type and a second document template associated with the second document type to produce a second result;

determine an action based on the first result and the second result; and

send a signal, to a requesting entity, the signal associated with the action.

49. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the portion is received, from an entity, via a network.

50. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, further comprising code to cause the processor to:

analyze the portion based on the first parsing function to produce a third result different from the first result, the code to cause the processor to determine includes code to cause the processor to determine the action based on the first result, the second result, and the third result.

51. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the first document template and the second document template are equal.

52. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the second document template is different from the first document template.

53. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the first parsing function and the second parsing function are equal.

54. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the second parsing function is different from the first parsing function.

55. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the first document type is equal to the second document type.

56. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 48, wherein the code to cause the processor to analyze the portion based on the first parsing function includes code to cause the processor to analyze the portion based on the first parsing function, the first document template and at least one policy preference.