Patent ID: 7412463
Filing Date: 2008-08-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium encoded with one or more data structures representing an information collection comprising a body of law, the one or more data structures organizing the information collection and facilitating computer access from the computer readable medium of information relating to the body of law, the body of law comprising a plurality of topics and a plurality of parts, including parts that are different versions of each other, the one or more data structures comprising: an association of each part of the body of law, including different versions thereof, and at least one topic, the association comprising a hierarchical arrangement of topics of the body of law and parts of the body of law in which each part of the body of law and any different version thereof and the associated at least one topic are hierarchically associated; an association of temporal information comprising one or more dates indicating the legal applicability of a respective part and of the legal applicability of any different version thereof and the respective part of the body of law or respective different version thereof; and an association of information relating to each part and version of the body of law and the at least one topic with which the respective part or version is associated.