Patent ID: 8019755
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer method in a document management system for analyzing, critiquing and quantifying government legislation or legislative documents including statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments, comprising: using declarative statements in order to objectify feedback; applying a numeric value to each declarative statement in order to objectify feedback; producing an overall grade by using a running calculation of each section within the scoring system; merging the quantified opinion of multiple users; providing a standard set of criteria on which to form a fundamental basis for agreement; applying descriptive tags to selected text for the purposes of tracking a reviewer's opinion; calculating each descriptive tag to quantify the reviewer's overall feedback; tagging selected text with frequent words/comments; choosing selected text for comments and feedback; creating a detailed computerized document, in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated and distributed electronically; compiling quantified feedback for tracking trends, searching, archiving and enhancing the system database.