# US 12,182,492 B2 · Document processing method, and information processing device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,182,492 B2 - Document ID: US12182492B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/107,639 - Filed: 2023-02-09 - Published: 2023-06-15 - Granted: 2024-12-31 - Earliest claimed: 2020-08-11 - Assignees: Legalon Technologies, Inc. - Applicants: Legalon Technologies, Inc. - Inventors: Ruka Funaki; Shinsuke Mori; Kohei Suenaga; Yusuke Nagata - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12182492B2 ## CPC - G06F 40/106: Display of layout of documents; Previewing - G06F 40/30: Semantic analysis - G06F 40/166: Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting - G06F 40/211: Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars - G06F 40/279: Recognition of textual entities - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A document processing method comprising: receiving document information from a terminal; and outputting associated information obtained by associating a subject element and a defining element with each other, and associating the defining element and a limiting element with each other based on the content of the document information, the subject element being a character string representing a subject extracted from a character string of the document information, the defining element being a character string defining an operation and/or a state of the subject, and the limiting element being a character string limiting a content of the defining element. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer-implemented method for document processing, wherein the method comprises: one or more processors configured to: recognize at least some of associated information based on a machine learning model, wherein the associated information comprises a subject element, a defining element, and a limiting element from a character string of document information, and wherein, the subject element being a character string representing a subject extracted from a character string of the document information, the defining element being a character string defining an operation and/or or a state of the subject, and the limiting element being a character string limiting a content of the defining element; extract at least some of the associated information; associating the subject element and the defining element with each other; associating the defining element and the limiting element with each other; annotating each of the subject element, the defining element, and the limiting element; displaying on a first display field of a computer screen, the document information based on the annotating, and display on a second display field of the computer screen, a legend indicating what each of the subject element, the defining element, and the limiting element represent. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, one or more processors are configured to change a display mode according to the type of the associated information in the first display field. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, one or more processors are configured to display the associated information corresponding to a party concerned with the document information, and the associated information corresponding to another party concerned with the document information in different manners in the first display field. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The document processing method according to claim 1, one or more processors are configured to switch a display mode of the associated information based on a user's operation. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method according to claim 4, wherein: the switching is per party concerned. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, one or more processors are configured to display, based on the associated information, a relationship among the subject element, the defining element, and the limiting element in an emphasized manner on a screen displaying the document information in the first display field. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein: the association of the subject element and the defining element with each other, and the association of the defining element and the limiting element with each other are specified by not performing association when a distance between character positions of the subject element and the defining element, and a distance between character positions of the defining element and the limiting element are longer than a predetermined distance. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The document processing method according to claim 1, one or more processors are configured to connect to the computer screen to a network in a communicable manner. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The computer-implemented method according to claim 8, one or more processors are configured to connect to the computer screen via a wireless network connection. ### Claim 10 An information processing device comprising: one or more memories configured to store document information in addition to a predetermined instruction; and one or more processors configured to: recognize associated information in the stored document information based on a machine learning model, wherein the associated information comprises a subject element, a defining element, and a limiting element from a character string of document information, and wherein, the subject element being a character string representing a subject extracted from a character string of the document information, the defining element being a character string defining an operation or a state of the subject, and the limiting element being a character string limiting a content of the defining element; extract at least some of the associated information; annotate each of the subject element, the defining element, and limiting element; associate the subject element and the defining element with each other; associate the defining element and the limiting element with each other; display, on a first display field of a computer screen, the document information based on the annotating, and display, on a second display field of the computer screen, a legend indicating what each of the subject element, the defining element, and the limiting element represent. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to change a display mode according to the type of the associated information in the first display field. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to display the associated information corresponding to a party concerned with the document information, and the associated information corresponding to another party concerned the document information in different manners in the first display field. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to switch a display mode of the associated information based on a user's operation. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The information processing device according to claim 13, wherein the switching is per party concerned. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to display, based on the associated information, a relationship among the subject element, the defining element, and the limiting element in an emphasized manner on the computer screen. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The information processing device according to claim 10, wherein the association of the subject element and the defining element with each other, and the association of the defining element and the limiting element with each other are specified by not performing association when a distance between character positions of the subject element and the defining element, and a distance between character positions of the defining element and the limiting element are longer than a predetermined distance.