Computer editing system for common textual patterns in legal documents
First Claim
1. A computer system for processing user selected kind of documents, comprising:
- a memory;
a processor coupled to the memory and operative to perform the operations of;
conducting a survey of a quantity of documents of said kind to identify textual patterns present in such documents, which textual patterns are substantially similar to common textual provisions which frequently recur in said kind of said documents;
where substantial similarity is determined by;
(x) degree of similarity as a user of said kind of said documents, of ordinary skill, would recognize said patterns or provisions to be variants of one another as would appear in ordinary course use of said kind of said documents, or (y) numerical similarity through satisfaction of a numerical threshold present in said computer system such that a numerical comparison of strings of text is in excess of said numerical threshold;
analyzing other existing documents or other existing sets of documents to determine the presence or absence of said identified textual patterns which were identified in said survey;
receiving a subjective rank of favorability towards a party contractually agreeing to be bound by at least one block of text identified as being associated with a textual pattern, and a length of said at least one block of text for said at least one block of text;
editing said other existing documents or other existing sets of documents for a user of said computer system to revise said other existing document or said other existing set of documents in a manner including exhibiting said rank of favorability towards said party to a said document and a length for said at least one block of text to include or exclude text of such identified textual patterns.
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Abstract
A computer system is disclosed herein that surveys numerous legal documents which memorialize business or legal transactions and then determines common provisions in such documents. The forms of these “core provisions” are then stored in a knowledge base of the system. The system then allows attorney users to apply the system to analyze unsurveyed documents and use the knowledge base to recognize the core provisions that are most similar to the text of these unsurveyed documents. The user can then edit these unsurveyed documents in a rapid accurate fashion by automated means to revise text to match these core provisions. Document editing functionality is also present, along with means to use correlations to determine the likelihood of the presence/absence of specific provisions and the presence/absence of various particular documents in groups of documents used to memorialize certain types of transactions.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer system for processing user selected kind of documents, comprising:
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a memory; a processor coupled to the memory and operative to perform the operations of; conducting a survey of a quantity of documents of said kind to identify textual patterns present in such documents, which textual patterns are substantially similar to common textual provisions which frequently recur in said kind of said documents;
where substantial similarity is determined by;
(x) degree of similarity as a user of said kind of said documents, of ordinary skill, would recognize said patterns or provisions to be variants of one another as would appear in ordinary course use of said kind of said documents, or (y) numerical similarity through satisfaction of a numerical threshold present in said computer system such that a numerical comparison of strings of text is in excess of said numerical threshold;analyzing other existing documents or other existing sets of documents to determine the presence or absence of said identified textual patterns which were identified in said survey; receiving a subjective rank of favorability towards a party contractually agreeing to be bound by at least one block of text identified as being associated with a textual pattern, and a length of said at least one block of text for said at least one block of text; editing said other existing documents or other existing sets of documents for a user of said computer system to revise said other existing document or said other existing set of documents in a manner including exhibiting said rank of favorability towards said party to a said document and a length for said at least one block of text to include or exclude text of such identified textual patterns. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of drafting a document, comprising the steps of:
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conducting a survey of a quantity of documents of said kind to identify textual patterns present in such documents, which textual patterns are substantially similar to common textual provisions which frequently recur in said kind of said documents;
where substantial similarity is determined by;
(x) degree of similarity as a user of said kind of said documents, of ordinary skill, would recognize said patterns or provisions to be variants of one another as would appear in ordinary course use of said kind of said documents, or (y) numerical similarity through satisfaction of a numerical threshold present in said computer system such that a numerical comparison of strings of text is in excess of said numerical threshold;analyzing other existing documents or other existing sets of documents to determine the presence or absence of said identified textual patterns which were identified in said survey; receiving a subjective rank of favorability towards a party contractually agreeing to be bound by at least one block of text identified as being associated with a textual pattern, and a length of said at least one block of text for said at least one block of text; editing said other existing documents or other existing sets of documents for a user of said computer system to revise said other existing document or said other existing set of documents in a manner including exhibiting said rank of favorability towards said party to a said document and a length for said at least one block of text to include or exclude text of such identified textual patterns.
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