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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh, Zug, CH;

Inventors:

Henry Chong, Cambridge, MA (US);

Johannes Schleith, London, GB;

Nikolai Nefedov, Gattikon, CH;

David Oliver, London, GB;

Daniella Tsar, Orpington, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3332 (2025.01); G06F 16/3329 (2025.01); G06F 16/35 (2025.01); G06F 16/838 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3338 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/838 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 50/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for conducting prospective legal research, which comprises receiving an initiated user question at a graphical user interface comprising one or more search terms and performing query expansion on the received search query. One or more documents that are responsive to the expanded search query are then identified, and from the set of responsive documents, a subset of documents that reference future development are then identified. The one or more responsive documents that reference future development are grouped into one or more document clusters and a topic is identified for each of the one or more document clusters. The one or more document clusters and the associated topics are then presented at the graphical user interface.


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