METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING WEB-BASED SYSTEMS WITH LOCAL DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system that allow users to access online legal research tools, while using other applications One exemplary computer-implemented system provides add-on software that integrates into a word-processing application on a client access device. The add-on software allows users to select from an expandable listing of one or more web applications on a web server, with each of the web application capable of controlling operation of the host word processing application. The web applications facilitate extraction and access to information from the information-retrieval services an secondary source reference texts and incorporation of the information in the document The present invention allows seamless user experience across host application, and Information Service Providers (ISP), such as legal research database and searching tools, and secondary sources, such as reference texts related to primary source documents, e.g., case law and statues, associated with the ISP service.