Patent Document ID: 9152632
Application ID: 13359446

Base Claim:
1. A method of operating an information management system, comprising: for each source file in a first collection of source files: parsing, by a processor of a computing device, the respective source file to extract one or more chemical structures, comparing, by the processor, the one or more chemical structures to chemical structures stored in at least one dictionary, wherein each dictionary of the at least one dictionary comprises a hierarchical listing of chemical structures, and comparing comprises identifying one or more matching chemical structures, and associating, by the processor, with the respective source file, the one or more matching chemical structures; generating, by the processor, a first virtual relational network comprising the source files in the first collection, wherein the first virtual relational network comprises: one or more nodes, wherein each node represents a particular matching chemical structure of the one or more matching chemical structures associated with a particular source file of the source files in the first collection, and one or more links, wherein each link represents a connection between a pair of nodes, wherein each node of the pair of nodes is associated with a common chemical structure; and comparing, by the processor, the first virtual relational network to a second virtual relational network, wherein comparing comprises identifying at least one of a) one or more nodes and b) one or more links common to both the first virtual relational network and the second virtual relational network, wherein the second virtual relational network is created from a second collection of source files different than the first collection of source files; and the first virtual relational network and the second virtual relational network share at least one common dictionary, wherein the at least one dictionary comprises the at least one common dictionary.

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Claim 10:
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising causing, by the processor, a graphic representation of at least a portion of one or more of the a) one or more nodes and b) one or more links common to both the first virtual relational network and the second virtual relational network to be displayed on a computer display.