8. A computer readable medium containing computer code comprising a system for segmenting claims from a patent document, the system comprising: a display device; a segmentation engine configured to receive the claims from the patent document and to divide the claims to provide a plurality of segments, each of which consist of at least one substantive claim limitation, wherein said 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; and a display engine configured to receive the segments and to carry out one of displaying and hiding each of the segments, according to at least one user-adjustable display setting; wherein the display engine is capable of displaying each of the segments independently of the other segments.
8. A computer readable medium containing computer code comprising a system for segmenting claims from a patent document, the system comprising: a display device; a segmentation engine configured to receive the claims from the patent document and to divide the claims to provide a plurality of segments, each of which consist of at least one substantive claim limitation, wherein said 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; and a display engine configured to receive the segments and to carry out one of displaying and hiding each of the segments, according to at least one user-adjustable display setting; wherein the display engine is capable of displaying each of the segments independently of the other segments. 10. The computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the at least one user-adjustable display setting comprises a setting that causes the display engine to display or hide each segment of the plurality of segments that comprises the at least one substantive claim limitation of the claims, and to hide or display each segment of the plurality of segments that comprises at least a portion of a preamble or a transitional phrase of the claims.