Patent Document ID: 8935265
Application ID: 13221746

Base Claim:
1. A method in a computer system for finding and presenting information, the method comprising: acquiring an image of a first copy of a document having original information and one or more first annotations; isolating the one or more first annotations of the document; performing a semantic evaluation of the one or more isolated first annotations; performing a semantic evaluation of the original information; creating an association between a portion of the isolated first annotations and one or more portions of the original information; performing a semantic search for related information from a corpus of documents using at least one of a portion of the isolated first annotations and a portion of the original information, the corpus of documents including a plurality of historical documents including one or more prior annotations previously made thereto, wherein the semantic search includes comparing a grammatical relationship in the portion of the isolated first annotations or the portion of the original information to the one or more prior annotations included in the plurality of historical documents and to data in the plurality of historical documents; identifying related information based at least in part upon the semantic search for related information from the corpus of documents, wherein the related information comprises one or more of the one or more prior annotations previously made to the historical documents and data in one of the historical documents of the plurality of historical documents; storing the related information, at least a portion of the created association, at least a portion of the isolated first annotations or at least a portion of the one or more portions of the original information; acquiring an image of a second copy of the document having original information and one or more second annotations; isolating the one or more second annotations in the second copy of the document; performing a semantic evaluation of the isolated second annotations; creating an association between a portion of the isolated second annotations and the one or more portions of the original information; storing at least a portion of the created association between the portion of the isolated second annotations and one or more portions of the original information; retrieving from the document a geolocation identifier for the document, the geolocation identifier indicating a location of the document at the time the document was previously annotated or marked up; and retrieving a geolocation identifier associated with the isolated first annotations and the isolated second annotations.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the semantic search includes: determining a set of data objects from the at least a portion of the isolated first annotations and the portion of the original information; and determining, for the set of data objects, semantic information that specifies an entity type that identifies the data object as a type of person, location, or thing, wherein the identifying the related information includes returning an indication of each portion of related information that matches the semantic information.