PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["704", "009000"]

Abstract:
Computer-based processes are disclosed for analyzing and improving document readability. Document readability is improved by using rules and associated logic to automatically detect various types of writing problems and to make and/or suggest edits for eliminating such problems. Many of the rules seek to generate more concise formulations of the analyzed sentences, such as by eliminating unnecessary words, rearranging words and phrases, and making various other types of edits. Proposed edits can be conveyed, e.g., through a word processing platform, by changing the visual appearance of text to indicate how the text would appear with (or with and without) the edit.

Claim (Index 27):
The non-transitory computer storage of  claim 17 , wherein said executable code further directs a computer system to perform additional method steps comprising:\n detecting whether a particular readability issue exists in text, notwithstanding that the text may be otherwise grammatically correct; scanning for target text containing at least one character string associated with the possible occurrence of the readability issue, wherein such target text includes the term \u201cthat\u201d; and implementing correction logic for correcting the issue, the correction logic specifying a proposed edit, the edit comprising one or some combination of the following: deleting text; adding text; and/or reordering text; wherein the method of automatic text evaluation is performed as a plug-in to a word processing application; wherein the target text additionally comprises one or some combination of the following: \u201cwhat\u201d or \u201cwho\u201d, \u201cit\u201d, and/or any \u201cto be\u201d verb; the method further comprising: when the word immediately preceding \u201cthat\u201d is a \u201cto be\u201d verb, the term \u201cit\u201d immediately precedes the \u201cto be\u201d verb, and the term \u201cwhat\u201d or \u201cwho\u201d immediately precedes \u201cit\u201d, alerting the user to the possible occurrence of a readability issue by: modifying the appearance of the scanned text within the word processing application; and displaying the proposed edit to a user through a computer interface; and allowing a user to accept or reject the edit through at least one button displayed on the word processing application's graphic user interface; wherein the word processing application's graphic user interface: has a consistently-positioned interactive panel allowing a user to repeatedly accept or repeatedly reject edits while viewing target text and simultaneously maintaining the position of their cursor within the interactive panel; after a user has accepted or rejected an edit using the at least one button, promptly shows a subsequent target text and associated proposed edit (if any), thereby allowing the user to rapidly proceed between proposed edits and accept or reject them.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52703
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11853648', '11853551', '11853628', '11853561', '14268460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2671326766761623
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5169598952887772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2921153985374238
- Mean Citation Score: 298.376264
- Max Citation Score: 322.41
- Similarity Product: 283.98701341331014

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test