Patent ID: 7571174
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: G06F,G06N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A hardware system comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and comprising: means for extracting one or more entity reference records from documents; means for defining one or more entity records by merging one or more of the entity reference records with one or more other entity reference records; means for categorizing one or more of the defined entity records based on a taxonomy; means for defining links between one or more of the defined entity records and other documents or data sets; graphical user interface means for defining a query related to an entity, for viewing one or more documents resulting from the query, and for selecting one or more of the defined links within a legal, financial, healthcare, scientific, or educational document and causing retrieval and display of at least a portion of the one defined entity record; and means for defining profile records from the one or more entity reference records, wherein the means for defining the profile records comprises means for merging entity reference records that refer to a same person to create a profile record for that person; wherein the means for merging comprises: