Patent ID: 8296661

Claim:
A system for originality checking of papers, comprising; 1) a user interface for identifying the user, for accepting predefined user information, for uploading papers, and for providing a result; 2) an originality checking application operably linked to said user interface, said originality checking application comprising knowledge base information and defined rules for checking uploaded papers for plagiarism; wherein said originality checking application includes rules for checking for plagiarism including; a) obtaining, fingerprinting, and storing on a database academic papers from a variety of sources which might be copied, said sources comprising documents stored in a database and documents gathered from the internet, b) fingerprinting uploaded papers to be checked for originality, c) checking said uploaded papers for originality by comparing said fingerprints of said uploaded papers to fingerprints of said academic papers to identify possible matches between said fingerprinted uploaded papers and said fingerprinted academic papers, d) comparing said uploaded paper's full text to a full text of all said possible matches wherein said possible matches are identified by said comparison of said fingerprints of said uploaded papers to said fingerprint of said academic papers, and e) generating an originality report which highlights those portions of said uploaded paper which match portions of said academic papers identified as possible matches by said comparison of said uploaded paper's fill text to said fill text of said possible matches; wherein said originality report further comprises a report of the level of duplication between said paper's full text and said full text of said possible matches wherein said report provides an overall similarity index ranking, and wherein said similarity index ranking and said portions on said academic papers identified as possible matches are both displayed together on said originality report on said user interface; and, 3) a computer system having stored therein said originality checking application, wherein said computer system comprises computer memory and a computer processor.