Patent ID: 9361464
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for creating, validating and editing a log for documents or objects for a legal proceeding or a legal matter by using a system comprising a server and a plurality of client computers, the method comprising the steps of: setting up and modifying user accounts on the server by a privileged user for authorized users, who can access, validate and edit log data concerning documents or objects from the client computers under their user accounts; setting up by a privileged user a table structure of a log table on the server for storing the log concerning documents or objects, only the authorized users having the right to access the log table; setting up by the privileged user a table structure of a coupled table containing coupling data relating to at least one field of the log table, with only the authorized users having the right to access the coupled table from the client computers, wherein at least one column of data in the coupled table that the authorized users collect from reviewing documents in real time assist the authorized users to decide if a log entry is entered for a particular document or object and how to enter data in the log table; creating a web page and a navigation bar containing a button for opening the log table and a button for opening the coupled table so that each of the authorized users can open a log form for the log table and a table form for the coupled table from a client computer; adding and editing data for the coupled table in real time by the authorized users while reviewing documents wherein the amount of coupling data and related data increase in the course of creating log entries for the log; retrieving the coupling data and the related data from the coupled table and presenting the coupling data and the related data to each of the authorized users; and entering data into the log table, retrieving data from the log table, showing the retrieved data from the log table on the client computer, and editing data in the log table by the authorized users that are reviewing documents.