TARGETED DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY SYSTEM

摘要

Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. More specifically, embodiments relate to computer program products for targeted document review assignments by determining concept-related data groupings within the overall corpus of data associated with a case and assembling the targeted document review assignments based on the concept-related data groupings. As such, document reviewers are presented with assignments that have highly conceptually-related documents, which results in further efficiency in the review process.

主权项

1. An apparatus for determining targeted document review assignments in an electronic discovery system, the apparatus comprising:
a computing platform including a memory and a processor; a targeted document review assignment application stored in the memory, executable by the processor; a concept-based data grouping mechanism configured to:
receive a plurality of document coding inputs that each assign a review code to one of a plurality of first documents included within previously collected electronic data associated with a case in the electronic discovery system, wherein the review code indicates a level of relevancy or importance in relation to the case;in response to receiving the at least one document coding input that assigns a review code to the first document, determining if one or more second documents, which are associated with other cases in the electronic discovery system which are pending review are same or similar to the first document based comparing one or more hash marks associated with the first document and one or more hash marks associated with the one or more second documents;in response to receiving the at least one document coding input that codes the first document, determining, via a computing device, if one or more third documents, which are associated with other cases in the electronic discovery system, have been collected and are pending review are same as the first document;in response to determining that the second documents are the same as the first document, automatically assign, via the computing device, the review code assigned to the first document to the second documents that are the same as the first document, wherein automatically assigning further comprises providing a confidence indicator for the one or more second documents, wherein the confidence indicator indicates a level of similarity between the second documents and the first document;in response to determining that the third documents are same as the first document, automatically assigning, via a computing device processor, the review code assigned to the first document to the third documents that are the same as the first document, wherein automatically assigning further comprises providing a confidence indicator for the one or more third documents, wherein the confidence indicator indicates a level of similarity between the third documents and the first and second documents;determine a plurality of data groupings based at least partially on each of the plurality of document coding inputs for assigning a review code to each of the first documents, the second documents, and the third documents; and a document review assignment generator configured to:
generate a plurality of document review assignments based on the plurality of data groupings, wherein each of the plurality of document review assignments comprise a predetermined number of allowable documents or files, wherein one or more of the plurality of document review assignments generated includes a first data grouping of the plurality of data groupings that is associated with a first review code of the plurality of document coding inputs and at least a portion of a second data grouping of the plurality of data groupings that is associated with a second review code of the plurality of document coding inputs when the first data grouping has less documents than the predetermined number of documents or files allowable for each of the one or more of the plurality of document review assignments.