Patent ID: 8312067

Claim:
A computer program product stored on a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to perform the steps of: receiving a selection of two or more patent-related documents for comparison; identifying, for each of the two or more patent-related documents, at least one group of terms associated with a numerical label in the specification; associating terms of the at least one group of terms as equivalents based at least on the identified association with the numerical label in the specification; determining matching claims between the two or more patent related documents based at least on the association; in response to the determining, displaying in a graphical user interface a representation of a first set of claims from a first of the patent-related documents and a representation of a second set of claims from a second of the patent-related documents; and indicating, in the graphical user interface, matching claims between the first set of claims and the second set of claims.