Patent Document ID: 9043352
Application ID: 11543862

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for searching established document object relationships, the method comprising: accessing, using a server, one or more link relationships stored on a memory device, wherein the one or more link relationships comprise a record, each record having a pointer to a first document object, a pointer to a second document object and information identifying one or more attributes describing the relationship between the first document object and the second document object, wherein the link relationships are stored separately from the first document object and the second document object; prompting, using a server, selection of one or more link relationship attributes through a user interface; searching established link relationships using the selected one or more link relationship attributes, wherein the searching includes identifying one or more link relationships that the one or more selected link relationship attributes participates in; and transmitting, for display, information describing the one or more identified link relationships; thereby transforming a search request into a display describing the one or more identified link relationships.

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Claim 9:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for performing the method recited in claim 1 .