Patent ID: 7283998

Claim:
A method for classification of documents, comprising the steps of: receiving a classify command from a client for initiating a classification of documents, the classify command identifying input documents to be classified, a classification profile, and an anchor document containing anchor values for identifying input document values to be used as a search criteria; retrieving the classification profile and input documents; extracting input values from each input document based on the anchor values; structuring the input values according to a source schema identified in the classification profile; performing similarity searches to determine similarity scores between one or more target database documents and the input values of each input document; performing external analysis of the input documents to determine external analytic scores between one or more target database documents and the input values of each input document; applying rules to the similarity scores and external analytic scores to determine rules results; classifying the input documents into classes based on the classification profile, external analytic scores, similarity scores and rules results identified in the classification profile; and sending the client a response at the completion of the classify command.