Patent Document ID: 8721339
Application ID: 13245235

Base Claim:
1. A method for evaluating a point of originality in a single piece of writing through the identification of original content in the writing, the method comprising: (a) submitting the single piece of writing to a processing system; (b) inputting a first query term, wherein the first query terms is one of a single word or a compound phrase; (c) generating lexical terms from the first query terms; (d) constructing a first matrix of conceptual-semantic and lexical relationships based upon the lexical terms generated from the first query term; (e) searching the writing for terms which appear in the first matrix; and (f) computing an originality estimate value for each of the terms in the writing which match one or more terms in the first matrix, wherein the originality estimate value is based upon the lexical relationships between the terms in the writing and the terms in the first matrix; (g) computing a point of originality score; and (h) presenting the point of originality score on a timeline graph, wherein the timeline graph depicts the evolution of point of originality scores for a particular person over a period of time.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising: (i) repeating (b)-(f) for a plurality of different query terms to provide a corresponding plurality of originality estimate values; and (j) summing the plurality of originality estimate values to produce a point of originality score for the writing.