METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR MACHINES AND MACHINE STATES THAT FACILITATE MODIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS BASED ON VARIOUS CORPORA AND/OR MODIFICATION DATA

• US 20150309973A1
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Brav, Ehren, Cohen, Alexander J., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Tegreene, Clarence T.
• Application Number:
  US14/315,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20150309973A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit, facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document, and receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Claims

1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising:

accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit;

facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document; and

receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data.

4. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

receiving an indication that a portion of a user interface was interacted with, said portion of the user interface configured to indicate submission of the particular document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit.

6. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

accepting the submission of a legal document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit.

8. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

accepting the submission of a patent document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit.

13. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

accepting the submission of the particular document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit, wherein the particular lexical unit is defined as a lexical unit that appears in the particular document more than a particular number of times.

15. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

accepting the submission of the particular document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit, wherein the particular lexical unit is one or more words that have a particular characteristic.

18. The computationally-implemented method of claim 15, wherein said accepting the submission of the particular document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit, wherein the particular lexical unit is one or more words that have a particular characteristic comprises:

accepting the submission of the particular document that includes the at least one particular lexical unit, wherein the particular lexical unit is recognized as a colloquialism associated with a particular readership.

19. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

receiving the submission of the particular document;

receiving data that defines one or more characteristics of the at least one particular lexical unit; and

identifying, in the particular document, the at least one particular lexical unit.

20. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit comprises:

receiving the submission of the particular document; and

identifying the at least one particular lexical unit in the particular document.

24. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

acquiring document modification data that identifies a target audience for the particular document.

27. The computationally-implemented method of claim 24, wherein said acquiring document modification data that identifies a target audience for the particular document comprises:

acquiring document modification data that includes a list of one or more entities that are designated to read the particular document.

28. The computationally-implemented method of claim 27, wherein said acquiring document modification data that includes a list of one or more entities that are designated to read the particular document comprises:

acquiring document modification data that includes a list of one or more entities that are designated to substantively evaluate the particular document.

29. The computationally-implemented method of claim 28, wherein said acquiring document modification data that includes a list of one or more entities that are designated to substantively evaluate the particular document comprises:

acquiring document modification data that includes a list of one or more judges that are designated to decide an outcome of an event at least partially based on the particular document.

31. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

receiving inputted document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine the modification to the particular document; and

transmitting the received document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document, to an entity configured to perform modification on the particular document.

32. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

facilitating acquisition of time period data that includes data that indicates a target time period for the particular document.

34. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

facilitating acquisition of time period data that includes data that indicates a source time period for the particular document.

37. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

facilitating acquisition of a level data that indicates a target level of technological abstraction for the particular document.

39. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document comprises:

facilitating acquisition of a level data that indicates a source level of technological abstraction for the particular document.

40. The computationally-implemented method of claim 39, wherein said facilitating acquisition of a level data that indicates a source level of technological abstraction for the particular document comprises:

obtaining the level data that indicates the source level of technological abstraction for the particular document through analysis of one or more lexical units of the particular document.

41. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data and that is related to the particular lexical unit.

42. The computationally-implemented method of claim 41, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data and that is related to the particular lexical unit comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data and that represents a shift in time period from the particular lexical unit.

43. The computationally-implemented method of claim 41, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data and that is related to the particular lexical unit comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data and that represents a shift in level of technological abstraction from the particular lexical unit.

44. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least the portion of the at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least the portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected at least partly based on acquired potential readership data.

49. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit is a similar one or more words used in a particular time period as the particular lexical unit that did not have a same meaning in the particular time period as in a current time period.

50. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit is a similar one or more words used in a particular time period as the particular lexical unit that was not in use in the particular time period.

53. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit represents the particular lexical unit expressed in a vocabulary from a target time period in which the particular lexical unit was not in common use.

54. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

receiving the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least the portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from a location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired.

56. The computationally-implemented method of claim 54, wherein said receiving the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least the portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from a location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from the location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired through use of a time period-based dictionary.

57. The computationally-implemented method of claim 54, wherein said receiving the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least the portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from a location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from the location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired through use of one or more specifications of technical material.

58. The computationally-implemented method of claim 54, wherein said receiving the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least the portion of the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from a location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with the acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein said obtaining is from the location at which the replacement lexical unit was acquired through use of one or more tools for altering a level of technological abstraction.

59. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit includes one or more words related to the particular lexical unit.

61. The computationally-implemented method of claim 59, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit includes one or more words related to the particular lexical unit comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit includes one or more words that express the particular lexical unit at a different level of technological abstraction than the particular lexical unit.

62. The computationally-implemented method of claim 59, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit includes one or more words related to the particular lexical unit comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit, wherein the acquired replacement lexical unit includes one or more words that express the particular lexical unit at a different level of technological abstraction through computerized analysis of the particular lexical unit.

64. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents.

65. The computationally-implemented method of claim 64, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents that have a particular feature in common.

66. The computationally-implemented method of claim 65, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents that have a particular feature in common comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents that were authored for a particular readership.

67. The computationally-implemented method of claim 65, wherein said obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents that have a particular feature in common comprises:

obtaining the updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that was selected based on prior analysis of one or more existing documents that resulted in a particular objective outcome.

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71. A computationally-implemented system, comprising

means for accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit;

means for facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document; and

means for receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data.

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143. A device defined by a computational language comprising:

one or more interchained physical machines ordered for accepting a submission of a particular document that includes at least one particular lexical unit;

one or more interchained physical machines ordered for facilitating acquisition of document modification data that includes data configured to be used to determine a modification to the particular document; and

one or more interchained physical machines ordered for receiving an updated document in which at least a portion of at least one occurrence of the at least one particular lexical unit has been replaced with at least a portion of an acquired replacement lexical unit that is at least partly based on the document modification data.