Patent ID: 8484183

Claim:
A system for retrieving regulatory information, comprising: a content server configured to index a plurality of regulatory corpuses, thereby forming a plurality of full-text searchable databases; a backend search module, configured to configured to receive a search query comprising at least one search term from the client device, and send said search query to said content server; an optical character recognition module; wherein the content server comprises non-transitory computer storage which contains machine instructions, that when executed by the processor, performs the steps of: receiving a search query comprising at least one search term; executing the search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases; retrieving relevant passages from the executed search query; emphasizing search terms within said relevant passages; emphasizing regulatory words within said relevant passages, thereby forming emphasized relevant passages; retrieving one or more synonyms of the search terms from a thesaurus; forming a synonym search query for each retrieved synonym; executing each synonym search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases; and retrieving relevant passages from the executed synonym search query.