Patent ID: 9552340
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A physical non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon for assisting a user in selecting documents for comparison and review, the computer program comprising: a code segment for storing a plurality of documents in a database, wherein the plurality of documents includes three or more documents; a code segment for selecting one of the plurality of documents to be a current document; a code segment for receiving a user-selected portion of the current document; a code segment for displaying information to a user for assisting in selecting one of the documents as a base document, wherein the displaying of the information occurs prior to the base document being selected by the user, wherein the information comprises comparison data, wherein the comparison data comprises at least one visual indication regarding which of the plurality of documents contains differences in the user-selected portion of the current document; a code segment for receiving a selection from the user of which one of the documents is the base document based on the information displayed to the user; and a code segment for creating a comparison document that shows the differences between the current document and the base document.