SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND INTERFACES FOR RESEARCHING CONTRACTUAL PRECEDENTS

• US 20100036816A1
• Filed: 07/10/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (The Woodbridge Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
• Inventors: Wight, James, Duran, Jennifer Anne, Albers, Heidi Brown, Thody, Lora C. Siegler
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

The present inventors, devised among other things, an exemplary method of researching provisions of contracts. The exemplary method entails receiving user selection of one or more predefined queries for contractual precedents, and executing a search of one or more databases containing agreements based on the received user selection. After executing the search, the method entails displaying a subset of the search results based on a predefined filter stored in association with an identifier for the user. The predefined filter may filter based on traits such as jurisdiction, deal size, industry, or a list of companies.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving user selection of one or more predefined queries for contractual precedents;

executing a search of one or more databases containing agreements based on the received user selection to define search results;

automatically displaying a subset of the search results based on a predefined filter stored in association with an identifier corresponding to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined filter identifies a geographic region, an industry, or a deal size.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to user action, storing one or more of the subset of the search results in a folder associated with the identifier corresponding to the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user action is a drag-and-drop action.

5. A system comprising:

means for receiving user selection of one or more predefined queries for contractual precedents;

means for searching of one or more databases containing agreements based on the received user selection to define search results;

means for displaying a subset of the search results based on a predefined filter stored in association with an identifier corresponding to the user.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising:

means, responsive to user action, for storing one or more of the subset of the search results in a folder associated with the identifier corresponding to the user.

6. The system of claim 6, wherein the predefined filter identifies a geographic region, an industry, or a deal size.