SYSTEMS, METHODS, SOFTWARE, AND INTERFACES FOR FORMATTING LEGAL CITATIONS

Patent №

US 9,760,961

Granted

2017-09-12

Filed 2015

Owner

WEST SERVICES, INC.

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Lab

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AI components

ml · nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14857137

The present disclosure is directed towards a citation formatting system and a method for operating an online research service for providing legal citations. The exemplary system provides the citation formatting function in a client-server architecture, receiving citations from a user's client access device over a computer network and communicating citation format suggestions back to the client access device for possible insertion into a document on the access device.

Machine learning Natural language PlanningG06Q 50/18G06F 16/2228G06F 16/252G06F 16/258G06F 16/955G06Q 10/00G09B 7/02G06F 40/186

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Natural language1.00

Planning1.00

Machine learning0.91

AI hardware0.08

Knowledge representation0.01

Evolutionary computation0.01

Vision0.00

Speech0.00

Ownership

WEST SERVICES, INC.

assignment · 365920319

THOMSON GLOBAL RESOURCES

assignment · 365920429

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES

namechg · 365920545

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY

merger · 430500480

THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH

assignment · 520090966

Assignors

WEST SERVICES, INC.

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