Microsoft e-discovery acquisition includes document analysis patents

At first glance, Microsoft’s acquisition of document e-discovery software maker Equivio looks like another key addition to Office 365’s growing portfolio of document management tools for major industry verticals. Equivio supports law firms with a set of tools that automatically generate relevance-based indexes from large streams of text, helping attorneys locate information vital to their cases.But a big key to today’s acquisition may have just been delivered to Equivio by the U.S. Pate