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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2006
Yohendran Arumainayagam, Lakeville, MN (US);
Steven Brant Anderson, St. Paul, MN (US);
Yohendran Arumainayagam, Lakeville, MN (US);
Steven Brant Anderson, St. Paul, MN (US);
Thomson Reuters Global Resources, Baar, CH;
Abstract
The present inventors recognized a need for improving conventional informational retrieval systems, particularly those intended for retrieval of legal information. Accordingly, they devised systems, methods, and software that facilitate online access to documents, such as non-opinion legal documents, in context of a legal workflow. An exemplary method of operation includes determining that a user of a client access device is performing a litigation-related task using a word-processing application on the client-access device. And in response to an affirmative determination, providing trial court materials relevant to the litigation-related task to the client access device without the user leaving the word-processing application. In some embodiments, the word-processing application is launched from a case-management application that provides case, activity, and role information to the online legal research system.