Policy disruption early warning system
AssigneeThe MITRE Corporation
InventorsAlex LYTE, Haven LIU, Shaun MICHEL, David SLATER
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a legal path analysis framework that can efficiently evaluate the impact of legislation on U.S. federal government agencies. This framework and its implementation as a database drive web application can enable policy analysts, research, government agencies, etc. to trace and visualize the path of changes to the United States Code (U.S.C.) and Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R) as well as highlight federal agencies that are ultimately affected by these changes in the legal system.
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A method for determining the impact of at least one federal public law on a federal agency, the method comprising:
- creating a citation network comprising:
- creating a node for at least one federal agency;
- a node for at least one title of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), a node for at least one title of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (U.S.C.), and a node for at least one federal public law;
- determining titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency;
- in response to determining titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency, creating an edge between the corresponding determined CFR title node and the corresponding federal agency node;
- determining citations to the U.S.C. in the CFR;
- in response to determining a citation to the U.S.C. in the CFR, creating an edge between the corresponding cited U.S.C. title node and the corresponding CFR title node;
- determining citations to federal public laws in the U.S.C.;
- and
- in response to determining a citation to federal public laws, creating an edge between the corresponding cited federal public law node and the U.S.C. title node;
- and
- determining the federal agency associated with the at least one federal public law using the citation network.
A nontransitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device, cause the device to:
- receive a request to determine a federal agency associated with at least one federal public law;
- create a citation network comprising:
- create a node for at least one federal agency;
- a node for at least one title of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), a node for at least one title of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (U.S.C.), and a node for at least one federal public law;
- determine titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency;
- in response to determining titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency, create an edge between the corresponding determined CFR title node and the corresponding federal agency node;
- determine citations to the U.S.C. in the CFR;
- in response to determining a citation to the U.S.C. in the CFR, create an edge between the corresponding cited U.S.C. title node and the corresponding CFR title node;
- determine citations to federal public laws in the U.S.C.;
- and
- in response to determining a citation to federal public laws, create an edge between the corresponding cited federal public law node and the U.S.C. title node;
- and
- determine the federal agency associated with the at least one federal public law using the citation network.
An electronic device, comprising
- one or more processors;
- memory;
- and
- one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- receiving a request to determine a federal agency associated with at least one federal public law;
- creating a citation network comprising:
- creating a node for at least one federal agency;
- a node for at least one title of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), a node for at least one title of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (U.S.C.), and a node for at least one federal public law;
- determining titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency;
- in response to determining titles of the CFR that are relevant to the at least one federal agency, creating an edge between the corresponding determined CFR title node and the corresponding federal agency node;
- determining citations to the U.S.C. in the CFR;
- in response to determining a citation to the U.S.C. in the CFR, creating an edge between the corresponding cited U.S.C. title node and the corresponding CFR title node;
- determining citations to federal public laws in the U.S.C.;
- and
- in response to determining a citation to federal public laws, creating an edge between the corresponding cited federal public law node and the U.S.C. title node;
- and
- determining the federal agency associated with the at least one federal public law using the citation network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.