Patent Document ID: 8805832
Application ID: 12730790

Base Claim:
1. A method for managing search terms in an electronic discovery system, the method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a plurality of first inputs, wherein each of the first inputs define a search term associated with a case in the electronic discovery system; storing, in a case profile, the search terms as a search term set; applying, at a computing device, the search term set to a portion of a corpus of electronic data associated with the case to determine, in the portion of the corpus of electronic data, (1) an overall quantity of search term hits, (2) a quantity of search term hits for each search term in the search term set, (3) an overall quantity of search term hit counts per data type, and (4) a quantity of search term hits for each search term in the search term set per data type, wherein the data types include electronic mail data and electronic file data; predicting, at a computing device, for an entirety of the corpus of electronic data based on results of applying the search term set to the portion of electronic data, a volume of the corpus of electronic data required to be reviewed; receiving, at a computing device, one or more second inputs, wherein each of the second inputs modify the search term set based at least on the predicted volume of the corpus of electronic data required to be reviewed; storing, in the case profile, the modifications to the search term set including modification tracking data, wherein the modification tracking data includes type of search term modification, details of the search term modification, originator of the search term modification and date of the search term modification and wherein type of search term modification includes one of adding a search term to the search term set, deleting a search term from the search term set or altering a search term in the search term set; storing, in the case profile, application tracking data associated with applying the search term set to the portion of electronic data, wherein the application tracking data includes an electronic data identifier, the overall quantity of search term hits within the portion of the corpus of electronic data, the quantity of search term hits per each search term in the search term set within the portion of the corpus of electronic data, and a date for applying the search term set to the portion of the corpus of electronic data; and receiving, at a computing device, a third input, wherein the third input finalizes the search term set.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, at a computing device, one or more fourth inputs, wherein each of the fourth inputs modify the finalized search term set.