Patent ID: 6668255
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A data processing system for organizing, analyzing, recording, storing, tracking, and reporting research results on multiple research projects across multiple users, propositions, authorities, and matters underlying the research projects, while enforcing uniform categories of analysis data across all users, comprising:(a) a computer having a memory, a central processing unit, and an input/output unit; (b) a first data structure recorded in said memory, said first data structure encoding a plurality of research projects; (c) a second data structure recorded in said memory, said second data structure encoding a plurality of propositions, each of said plurality of propositions: (i) being associated with at least one of said plurality of research projects; (ii) being adapted to contain at least one word search description associated with each of said plurality of propositions, said word search description further comprising a word search performed by the user; and (iii) being adapted to contain a plurality of database search results associated with said word search, (d) a third data structure recorded in said memory, said third data structure encoding a plurality of authorities, wherein: (i) each of said plurality of authorities is associated with at least one of said plurality of research projects; (ii) each of said plurality of authorities is adapted to contain a plurality of citator service search results associated with said authority resulting from a search of at least one citator service; (iii) selected ones of said plurality of authorities are associated with an associated proposition selected from said plurality of propositions; and (iv) each of said plurality of authorities further comprises uniform categories of analysis data; and (e) a computer program executing in said central processing unit, said computer program defining structural and functional relationships among said plurality of research projects, said plurality of propositions, and said plurality of authorities, said computer program receiving information on said plurality of research projects, said plurality of propositions, and said plurality of authorities from an operator through said input/output unit, and said computer program organizing said information and displaying relationships among said plurality of research projects, said plurality of propositions, said plurality of authorities, and said information to the operator through said input/output unit.