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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2000
Edward J. Walters, Alexandria, VA (US);
Phillip J. Rosenthal, Washington, DC (US);
Edward J. Walters, Alexandria, VA (US);
Phillip J. Rosenthal, Washington, DC (US);
FASTCASE, INC., Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An method for searching a database and sorting the results of a search to identify important, authoritative, and seminal records and to bring them to the front of the search result. The method comprises a means of rapidly identifying references to other records within each record and an algorithm that uses those references to identify the seminal, authoritative, and important cases. The invention may be used in legal research, permitting researches to find additional seminal documents that are missed by a standard Boolean search and to sort search results by seminality so that they can rapidly find the seminal case in an area of law.