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Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2006
Applicants:

Peter Jackson, Burnsville, MN (US);

Mark A. Bluhm, Cottage Grove, MN (US);

Inventors:

Peter Jackson, Burnsville, MN (US);

Mark A. Bluhm, Cottage Grove, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/06 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based (pay-for-access) online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related systems, the present inventors recognized researchers often need to access open web content that is outside their subscription-based system. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods, and software that automatically search for and identify open web documents in response to queries within the subscription-based system and/or automatically search for and identify pay-for-access content in response to receiving open web queries.


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