Patent Document ID: 8661059
Application ID: 13952212

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: aggregating a plurality of authority documents; identifying a plurality of citations in at least one of the plurality of authoritative documents; identifying, in the plurality of citations, content that includes at least one noun-verb pair; assigning a unique control ID to represent each unique noun-verb pair from the plurality of citations; assigning a unique noun ID to represent each unique noun from the plurality of citations; generating a table having a plurality of rows, wherein each of the rows is assigned a citation ID; and storing in each row data indicating: portions of the content, the citation that corresponds to content, the control ID that corresponds to the content, and one or more unique noun IDs that correspond with to the content, such that the contents of the table are usable to analyze compliance with at least one noun-verb pair.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising, for each citation ID, assigning a parent ID and a sort ID to each citation represented by the citation ID, wherein the parent ID indicates a respective citation's position in the hierarchy relative to an ancestor and descendent citations in the hierarchy, and wherein the sort ID indicates a respective citation's hierarchy relative to siblings in the hierarchy.