US 12,169,622 B2
Systems and methods for legal research navigation
David Thomas Paterson, Edinburgh (GB); Erica Gann Kitaev, Denver, CO (US); Michael Eng Poh Clark, Essex (GB); Megan Anne Sramek, New York, NY (US); Deacon Ales, Burnsville, MN (US); and Emily Colbert, Garden City, NY (US)
Assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH, Zug (CH)
Filed by Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH, Zug (CH)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/216,884.
Application 18/216,884 is a continuation of application No. 17/528,303, filed on Nov. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,733,833.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,795, filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0359327 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for computer assisted research, comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, a selection of a first level object from a plurality of first level objects;
causing to be displayed, by the computing device, in response to the selection of the first level object, an interface screen comprising the selected first level object and a set of second level objects related to the first level object, the set of second level objects arranged in a first segmented ring around the selected first level object;
expanding, by the computing device, the interface screen in response to a selection of at least one second level object in the set of second level objects to include a set of third level objects arranged in a second segmented ring around the first resource object and around the first segmented ring, the set of third level objects includes at least one common resource object and at least one mutually exclusive resource object with the set of second level objects; and
causing to be displayed, by the computing device, a colored-shaded resource object visually indicating a user's focus.