PROCESS FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE SEARCH DOCUMENT USED IN COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION SEARCHING

• US 20140059035A1
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: iCONECT Development, LLC
• Original Assignee: iCONECT Development, LLC
• Inventors: Williams, Cynthia J., Campbell, Ian
• Application Number:
  US14/010,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20140059035A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

A computer-based process for generating a composite search document for use in the electronic search and retrieval of corresponding and relevant documents and/or information from an existing database or collection of electronic documents. A composite search document is created by aggregating blocks of text in an interface into a single document, which is submitted to the mathematical space of a conceptual search index or similar search engine for the purpose of performing a query and returning results.

Claims

1. A process for computer-based retrieval of documents from a predetermined collection of electronic documents, comprising the steps of:

generating a set of texts;

selecting a combination of at least a plurality of the texts;

forming a digital composite search document by aggregating the selected texts; and

retrieving a set of corresponding documents from the predetermined collection of electronic documents utilizing a conceptual analytics index search engine to compare the composite search document to the collection of electronic documents.

2. The process of claim 1, including the step of associating related texts with a search concept identifier.

3. The process of claim 1, wherein the generating texts step comprises the steps of creating multiple text boxes using a computerized graphical interface, and inputting text into each text box.

4. The process of claim 3, wherein each text box is selectively selectable.

5. The process of claim 4, wherein the composite search document is created by selecting more than one of the text boxes and aggregating the texts of each of the selected text boxes.

6. The process of claim 1, wherein the conceptual analytics index search engine comprises document management or information governance software used in connection with electronically searching documents related to a legal transaction or dispute.

7. The process of claim 3, wherein the inputting text step comprises the step of inputting text copied from a single existing document into one or more text boxes, inputting text copied from multiple existing documents into one or more text boxes, inputting user-created natural language text into one or more text boxes, and combinations thereof.

8. The process of claim 1, including the step of retrieving a second set of corresponding documents from the predetermined collection of electronic documents by selecting a different combination of plurality of texts and forming a second digital composite search document by aggregating the selected texts and comparing the second composite search document to the collection of electronic documents using the conceptual analytics index search engine.

9. The process of claim 1, including the step of selecting a degree of correlation between the composite search document and corresponding documents retrieved from the collection of electronic documents.

10. A process for generating a composite search document for computer-based retrieval of corresponding documents from a predetermined collection of electronic documents, comprising the steps of:

creating multiple text boxes using a graphical interface, wherein each text box is selectively selectable;

inputting text into each text box;

selecting more than one of the text boxes using the graphical interface; and

forming a digital composite search document by aggregating the texts of the selected text boxes.

11. The process of claim 10, including the step of associating a search concept identifier with the multiple text boxes.

12. The process of claim 10, wherein the inputting text step comprises the step of inputting text copied from a single existing document into one or more text boxes, inputting text copied from multiple existing documents into one or more text boxes, inputting user-created natural language text into one or more text boxes, and combinations thereof.