Patent Document ID: 9569436
Application ID: 13614629

Base Claim:
1. A system, implemented on at least one computer, for providing electronic contract information, comprising: an electronic storage configured to store electronic contract documents and electronic annotations, the electronic annotations are stored separately from the contract documents; and a processor cooperatively operable with the electronic storage, the processor being configured to provide a contract document from the electronic storage; subdivide, responsive to a user, the contract document into sections; enter, responsive to the user, an annotation regarding a relationship between (i) at least one section within the contract document and (ii) at least one other section within the contract document or at least one other section within another electronic document; input, in response to the user, edits to the document; and store the annotation in the electronic storage for later retrieval, wherein each annotation is different from other annotations in the electronic storage, wherein the annotation stored in the electronic storage: indicates the relationship, which analyzes how information in entire sections relate to each other, between (i) the at least one section within the contract document and (ii) the at least one other section within the contract document or the at least one other section within the another electronic document, and the annotation regarding the relationship further includes specific to the at least one section of the contract document to which the at least one annotations is applied and the at least one other section, a pre-defined conflict indication user-selected from at least two of pass, possible and fail, indicates a predetermined data portion within the contract document as stored in the electronic storage to which the annotation is related as indicated by a document-image-independent data schema, retrieve the at least one contract document from the electronic storage as document data, said document data including at least one element corresponding to the location of the at least one annotation within said document; retrieve the annotation to be applied to said at least one contract document from the electronic storage as annotation data; and combine the document data and the annotation data to form a unitary single logical document displaying the annotation embedded at the location in the document data that is indicated by the document-image-independent data schema; extract the annotation data and the document data from the edited document, and determine the predetermined data portion for the annotation data within the edited document; store the extracted annotation data that is unedited as a same version in the electronic annotations; and update said document data from the extracted document data as a next version in the electronic contract documents for later retrieval, the electronic annotations are stored separately from the electronic contract documents; receive, from the user, an indication of a search request with annotation search criteria, the annotation search criteria is at least one of the pre-defined conflict indications; and search, responsive to the annotation search criteria, in the electronic storage, for annotations that satisfy the annotation search criteria and to output, as a search result the contracts indicated by the annotations that satisfy the annotation search criteria.

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Claim 4:
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one section into which the contract document is divided is at least one of a section, a clause within the contract, a paragraph within the contract, and a schedule of payments.