Patent ID: 7657831

Claim:
A computer-assisted process for converting a displayed contract text document into a workflow process, comprising the steps of: (1) detecting, by a computing device, a plurality of distinct user-selected text portions of the displayed contract text document; (2) for each of the plurality of distinct user-selected text portions, querying the user to identify at least one corresponding user-selected workflow process parameter, the at least one user-selected workflow process parameter being detected by the computing device using voice recognition; (3) tagging, by the computing device, the document based on the plurality of distinct user-selected text portions and corresponding user-selected workflow process parameters, said tagging correlating each user-selected text portion to a user-selected order within a computer-based contract negotiation workflow process; (4) storing each user-selectable text portion with corresponding user-selectable workflow process parameters into a data structure representing an ordering of information to be elicited when the workflow process is executed; and (5) executing the computer-based contract negotiation workflow process using the data structure as a template to drive the workflow process.