Patent ID: 7003719

Claim:
A method of automatically inserting hyperlinks into a document, comprising: receiving one or more documents; searching one or more of the documents for content having one or more predefined forms, with the predefined forms defined prior to receiving the one or more documents; automatically marking one or more portions of one or more of the searched documents based on results of searching the one or more documents for content having one or more of the predefined forms; and inserting one or more hyperlinks into one or more of the searched documents, with each hyperlink having a URL including at least a portion of the content of the one or more of the marked portions and a domain name associated with a computerized service for use in conducting a search based on the included portion of the content; wherein automatically marking one or more portions of one or more of the searched documents, comprises: marking one or more legal citations in one or more of the documents; and wherein inserting one or more hyperlinks into one or more of the searched documents, comprises: inserting one or more hyperlinks into at least one of the documents, with each hyperlink associated with at least one of the marked legal citations and each hyperlink having a URL that includes a domain name for a legal research service and at least a portion of one of the marked legal citations.