Systems and methods for identifying and visualizing elements of query results

1. A system configured to facilitate review of a set of document search results comprising:

a. at least one computer readable storage medium on which a database management system is stored and configured to access a corpora of electronically stored content either directly or indirectly;

b. a computer machine configured to:

i. receive a query request, comprising a set of two or more search terms, as a computer machine input;

ii. search said corpora for a set of at least two documents relevant to said query request;

iii. score a set of paragraphs associated with said set of at least two documents, using an algorithm which calculates a measurement of term density versus term diversity in each paragraph in said set of paragraphs;

iv. rank said set of paragraphs based on said scoring step; and

c. a computer machine configured to generate at least one interactive graphical user interface (GUI) to display at least one visually coded graphic, comprising a boxed abacus icon, to indicate whether each of said two or more search terms is present in a subset of said set of paragraphs wherein said subset comprises a preset number of paragraphs receiving higher scores, in said ranking step, than a set of paragraphs not included in said subset.

2. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said subset of said set of paragraphs comprises a preset number of paragraphs corresponding to a minimum score.

3. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a first visually coded graphic is generated for a first document in said set of at least two documents and a second visually coded graphic is generated for said second document in said set of at least two documents.

4. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said algorithm scores higher a subset of said set of paragraphs with a greater term density.

5. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said algorithm scores higher a subset of said set of paragraphs with a greater term diversity.

6. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said algorithm includes a weighting factor for a term diversity variable and a weighting factor for a term density variable.

7. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said algorithm includes a weighting factor for a term diversity variable and a weighting factor for a term density variable; and a preset number of paragraphs, ranked higher than the rest of the paragraphs from said set of paragraphs, comprises said subset of said set of paragraphs; and said preset number of paragraphs are surfaced in said at least one visually coded graphic.

8. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said at least one visually coded graphic comprises a set of tiles wherein each row in said set of tiles represents a surfaced paragraph based on said scoring step.

9. A system, as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each search term from said two or more search terms is assigned a graphical indicator; each paragraph in said subset of said set of paragraphs is assigned to a vertical line in a set of vertical lines; and wherein said visually coded graphic includes a depiction of said graphical indicators on each vertical line corresponding to the presence of said search term in said paragraph.

10. A method to facilitate review of a set of document search results comprising:

a. receiving, as a computer machine input, a query request wherein said query request comprises two or more search terms;

b. accessing a corpora of electronically stored content either directly or indirectly on at least one computer readable storage medium;

c. searching said corpora for a set of relevant documents;

d. scoring a set of paragraphs, within said set of relevant documents, using an algorithm which calculates a measurement of term density versus term diversity for each of said set of paragraphs;

e. ranking said set of paragraphs based on said measurement; and

f. generating for graphical display:

i. a legend correlating a visually coded graphical indicator with each search term;

ii. a list of a subset of said set of relevant documents;

iii. if a paragraph, associated with a document that was not included in said subset of relevant documents, receives a higher score, in said ranking step, than any paragraph in said subset of relevant documents, inserting said document in said subset of relevant documents; and

iv. an icon, selected from the group consisting of a boxed abacus icon and a tile bar icon, for each document in said list of relevant documents, summarizing whether a search term is present in a preset number of paragraphs associated with said document.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for execution by a computer machine to facilitate review of a set of document search results that when executed:

a. receives a query request comprising two or more search terms;

b. accesses a corpora of electronically stored content either directly or indirectly;

c. searches a corpora for a set of candidate documents;

d. scores a set of paragraphs associated with said set of candidate documents using an algorithm which calculates a measurement of term density versus term diversity;

e. ranks said set of paragraphs based on said measurement;

f. generates for graphical display at least one boxed abacus icon for each of a subset of said set of candidate documents wherein a unique visually-coded graphical indicator is associated with each search term and displayed on a line associated with a given paragraph from a subset of said set of paragraphs to indicate if said search term is present in said given paragraph and, if a paragraph, associated with a document that was not included in said set of candidate documents, scores higher, than any paragraph in said set of candidate documents, inserting said document in said set of candidate documents.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium, as claimed in claim 11 , wherein said boxed abacus icon is linked to a set of underlying content associated with each paragraph depicted in said boxed abacus icon and wherein said boxed abacus icon may be clicked through to display said set of underlying content.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium, as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said search terms are highlighted in a display of said set of underlying content.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium, as claimed in claim 11 , wherein said subset of said candidate documents is chosen based on the documents containing the highest scoring paragraphs when said paragraphs are ranked.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium, as claimed in claim 14 , wherein each boxed abacus icon includes only one paragraph from each document in said subset.