45. The method of claim 19 wherein: said pairs of documents further comprises a first document and a second document, said first document is a dependent claim, x, depending from an independent claim, X, and said second document is a dependent claim, y, depending from an independent claim, Y, said determining a first utility measure further comprises the following steps: determining a first intermediate utility measure; determining a second intermediate utility measure; combining said first intermediate utility measure and said second intermediate utility measure.
19. A method of analyzing information regarding a plurality of documents, each having a unique document index, the method comprising the steps of: parsing each document into a plurality of elements; generating a first representation of each of said elements; and for selected pairs of documents, comprised of a first document and a second document, determining a first utility measure based on the respective first representation of the plurality of elements for the documents in that pair.