Patent Document ID: 20110179035
Application ID: 12791626
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer program product for providing a citation network viewer, the computer program product stored in one or more computer-readable memory devices and readable by a computer, the computer program product comprising executable instructions that, when read and executed by the computer, causes the computer to: receive a plurality of documents, wherein each document of the plurality of documents comprises a citation and discusses at least one issue, and relationships between individual ones of the plurality of documents as defined by the citations form a multi-dimensional citation network; identify at least a portion of citations, reasons-for-citing and headnotes associated with the identified citations from individual sentences of the plurality of documents; convert the identified reasons-for-citing and the identified headnotes in at least some of the documents of the plurality of documents into vectors; establish one or more semantic links between individual documents of the plurality of documents by pairing starting reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited reasons-for-citing and headnotes in cited documents; and create a plurality of metadata files based at least in part on the plurality of documents, the citations and the semantic links.