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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2002
Eftim L. Pop-lazarov, Wilmington, DE (US);
Stephen J. Rieger, Carlsbad, CA (US);
David M. Pedrick, Barrington, NJ (US);
Sandro Cifelli, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Eftim L. Pop-Lazarov, Wilmington, DE (US);
Stephen J. Rieger, Carlsbad, CA (US);
David M. Pedrick, Barrington, NJ (US);
Sandro Cifelli, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Thomson Reuters (Scientific) Inc., Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a system and method for automatically processing one or more citations contained within a document while the document is presented by a document rendering application. The method of the present invention comprises scanning the document to identify an unformatted citation and parsing the unformatted citation to determine one or more citation terms. One or more citation libraries are queried to find citations comprising the one or more citation terms. A citation falling within the scope of the query is selected and inserted into the document.