Patent ID: 9672254
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of creating a new document, the method comprising the steps of: a computer receiving keywords specifying a subject matter of the new document; the computer determining metadata of documents or metadata of parts of the documents matches one or more keywords included in the received keywords; the computer retrieving the documents or the parts of the documents whose metadata matches the one or more keywords; based on a section or subsection being created in the new document, the computer generating a ranked list of the retrieved documents or parts of the documents; the computer receiving a selection of a document or a part of a document included in the ranked list; the computer adding content to the new document, the added content being the document or the part of the document whose selection was received; the computer refining the keywords based in part on the added content; and based in part on the subject matter and the refined keywords, the computer completing the new document by repeating the steps of determining the metadata, retrieving the documents, generating the ranked list, receiving the selection, and adding the content.