Patent ID: 9710542
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of retrieving information, the method comprising: receiving a query that includes at least one search term and at least one filtering criteria; accessing at least one relationship database, wherein the at least one relationship database comprising one or more of a plurality of associations of search terms and filtering criteria with metadata, a plurality of relationships between information identifiers (infoIDs) and associated metadata or a plurality of parent-child hierarchical relationships, to convert the at least one search term and the at least one filtering criteria of the query into a converted query comprising one or more information identifiers (infoIDs) using one or more of the plurality of associations of search terms and filtering criteria with metadata, the plurality of relationships between the infoIDs and associated metadata or the plurality of parent-child hierarchical relationships maintained in the at least one relationship database, wherein each information identifiers of the converted query identifies a content document in at least a primary content database or a secondary content database, the primary content database comprising at least one set of documents related to legal cases or statutes, the secondary content database comprising at least one set of documents related to law review documents, regulatory guidance documents or agency documents, generating a plurality of information identifier sets from the converted query, wherein the information identifier sets are associated with the least one search term and one filtering criteria, and each information identifier set comprises one or more information identifiers; joining at least the plurality of infoID sets of the converted query according to a mathematical expression to form a resultant infoID set that includes at least one resultant infoID; retrieving at least a portion of a content document represented by the at least one resultant infoID; summarizing the at least one resultant infoID into at least one summary; and combining the retrieved portion of the content document into the at least one summary of a combined result based on the associated at least one resultant infoID.