System for determining and displaying legal-practice trends and identifying corporate legal needs

Patent №

US 8,935,229

Granted

2015-01-13

Filed 2006

Owner

WEST SERVICES, INC.

+4 more

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11332783

The present inventor devised systems, methods, interfaces, and software that can facilitate generation and presentation of legal trend data based on legal documents, such as caselaw documents or court docket documents.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/24578G06F 16/24575G06F 16/248G06F 16/338G06Q 10/10G06Q 30/02G06Q 50/18

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.84
Knowledge representation0.80
Machine learning0.56
Vision0.22
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

WEST SERVICES, INC.

assignment · 175030428

WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION

merger · 358870452

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES

assignment · 359240049

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY

namechg · 443000500

THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH

assignment · 520640663

Assignors

RITCHEY, KEVIN L.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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