Web discovery method for assessing ingredients for regulatory compliance
AssigneeIthos USA Inc.
InventorsKenneth Bruce Bubeck, Joseph Coyne, Hong Wei Chou
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Abstract
A regulatory information retrieval system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises building ingredient data for manufacturing businesses. Then, those ingredients are compared with regulatory requirements. Relevant requirements are identified regarding permitted usage are extracted and converted to a guideline document. The guideline document can be viewed in a variety of ways, such as a detailed view, or an overview of repositories searched. The guidelines may then be converted to a file format that can be imported by other business applications.
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A method for retrieving regulatory information, comprising:
- indexing a plurality of regulatory corpuses, thereby forming a plurality of full-text searchable databases;
- receiving a search query comprising at least one search term;
- executing the search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases to identify a plurality of relevant passages;
- emphasizing search terms within the plurality of relevant passages;
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- emphasizing regulatory words within the plurality of relevant passages, thereby forming emphasized relevant passages.
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