# US 2011/0078142 A1 · Internet-user accessible system database computer method and system for analyzing government legsilationand legislative documents, statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments

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- Number: US 2011/0078142 A1
- Document ID: US20110078142A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 12/927,758
- Filed: 2010-11-23
- Published: 2011-03-31
- Earliest claimed: 2007-07-12
- Assignees: LitCentral, Inc.
- Inventors: Robin Hillary; Michelle McCarthy
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20110078142A1

## CPC

- G06F 16/958: Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

The present invention relates to a computer method and system for analyzing, critiquing and providing feedback on or for government legislation and legislative documents, statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments hereto for referred to as legislation or legislative document, and more particularly, to a computer method and system for quantifying key components and sections within the legislation or legislative document. This computer method and system works in conjunction with a document management system. This computer method and system quantifies the feedback of the user based on a single user or multiple users' opinion. The result is a computerized document in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated, managed and distributed electronically. The key component used to quantify feedback is a scoring tool with a set of criteria and standards used to assess the legislation or legislative document.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A computer method in a document management system for analyzing, critiquing and quantifying government legislation or legislative documents (i.e. statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments), comprising:
using declarative statements in order to objectify feedback;
applying a numeric value to each declarative statement in order to objectify feedback;
producing an overall grade by using a running calculation of each section within the scoring system;
merging the quantified opinion of multiple users;
providing a standard set of criteria on which to form a fundamental basis for agreement;
applying descriptive tags to selected text for the purposes of tracking a reviewer's opinion;
calculating each descriptive tag to quantify the reviewer's overall feedback;
tagging selected text with frequent words/comments;
choosing selected text for comments and feedback;
creating a detailed computerized document, in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated and distributed electronically;
compiling quantified feedback for tracking trends, searching, archiving and enhancing the system database.

### Claim 2

A computer system in a document management system for analyzing, critiquing and quantifying government legislation or legislative documents (i.e. statutes, bills, by-laws, proposals and amendments), comprising:
using declarative statements in order to objectify feedback;
applying a numeric value to each declarative statement in order to objectify feedback;
producing an overall grade by using a running calculation of each section within the scoring system;
merging the quantified opinion of multiple users;
providing a standard set of criteria on which to form a fundamental basis for agreement;
applying descriptive tags to selected text for the purposes of tracking a reviewer's opinion;
calculating each descriptive tag to quantify the reviewer's overall feedback;
tagging selected text with frequent words/comments;
choosing selected text for comments and feedback;
creating a detailed computerized document, in the form of a report that can be printed, collaborated and distributed electronically;
compiling quantified feedback for tracking trends, searching, archiving and enhancing the system database.