Patent ID: 7331016

Claim:
A method of computerized generation of a derivative value enhanced document from a patent document, comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a claim section of the patent document; (b) processing the claim section, including: (i) transforming multiple dependent claims into single dependent claims; (ii) sorting the transformed claims by claim numbers to which the claims refer to; (iii) interchanging positions of any two neighboring sorted claims, the preceding claim and the succeeding claim, if they meet the following requirements: both claims are dependent claims and refer to different claims; and succeeding claim does not refer to the preceding claim; (c) extracting claim dependency and text of claims from the interchanged claim section; d) converting the extracted claim dependency into a graphical form, comprising a set of graphical elements, each element corresponding to an individual claim or a group of claims; (e) converting the extracted text of claims into a textual form, comprising a set of elements, each element being a text of an individual claim or a text of a group of claims; (f) forming a derivative claim section by combining the converted graphical and textual elements of the converted claim dependency and text of claims in the order obtained after the step (iii) of interchanging; and (g) forming the derivative document by combining the derivative claim section with the patent document or a part of the patent document.