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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2006
Douglas T. Rosenoff, Burnsville, MN (US);
Anthony Mario Medina, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Craig Runde, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Douglas T. Rosenoff, Burnsville, MN (US);
Anthony Mario Medina, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Craig Runde, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
West Services, Inc., Eagan, MN (US);
Abstract
Software that automatically locates and marks specific portions of a document and defines hyperlinks including at least a portion of the marked text. An exemplary implementation, tailored for legal citations, processes the portion of the marked text as a search term, and allows completion of hyperlinks without the necessity of including complete file addresses. This implementation also defines a portion of the hyperlinks based on the cost or time of executing the hyperlink, to reduce the cost or time of executing the hyperlink.