3. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the segmentation engine is further configured to identify a transitional phrase preceding the at least one substantive claim limitation within the text to identify the opening; and wherein the segmentation engine is further configured to segment a body phrase into at least one relational phrase, wherein the at least one relational phrase comprises at least two antecedent elements; wherein the at least one relational phrase uses prepositions to indicate a spatial or temporal relationship between the at least two antecedent elements.
1. A computer readable medium containing computer code comprising a system for segmenting one or more claims from a patent document, the system comprising: a display device; a segmentation engine configured to receive text from the patent document, the text comprising a preamble and at least one substantive claim limitation, wherein the at least one substantive claim limitation recites a limitation to an invention, wherein the segmentation engine is further configured to segment the claims into at least one element phrase; wherein the segmentation engine is further configured to segment the at least one element phrase into at least one elemental phrase and at least one attribute phrase, wherein the at least one attribute phrase comprises the at least one substantive claim limitation; wherein the segmentation engine is further configured to identify an opening and a closing of the at least one substantive claim limitation to extract the at least one substantive claim limitation from a remainder of the text; and a display engine configured to receive a first segment comprising the preamble and a second segment comprising the at least one substantive claim limitation and to display the at least one substantive claim limitation in a position indicating hierarchical subordination to the preamble.