Patent ID: 9043375
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for detecting plagiarism between files, the method comprising: reading, by a computer system, an element from a matching element database, wherein the element in the matching element database is text that has been determined to exist in each of first and second files and an indication of a correlation between the first and second files; sending, by the computer system, said element that has been determined to exist in each of first and second files to a search engine, wherein the search engine searches a plurality of sources for one or more hits of said element with respect to the plurality of sources; receiving, by the computer system, from said search engine a number of the hits; displaying, by the computer system, to a user said element and said number of hits for said element as an indication of whether or not the correlation is due to plagiarism between the first and second files.