Patent Application
20240361890
The present invention relates generally to automated work systems and, more particularly, to automated work systems and methods for analyzing patent documents using interactive graphic user interface visualization.
The number of patent applications is increasing yearly. From 1963 through 1983, approximately 100,000 patent applications per year were filed at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO); in 2001 alone, 326,508 patent applications were filed; and most recently in fiscal year 2016-2017 USPTO reported 647,388 patent applications were filed. Technology innovation, which needs patent protection to attract capital for development and commercialization, is driving this trend. Interestingly, technology is also facilitating the trend: word processing, remote electronic database searching, and similar technologies are facilitating the patent application process, both for high-technology and low-technology inventions. This large increase in patent applications, and patents in general, means that the ability to understand and communicate patent documents and competitive position with respect to a large field of other patent property is a difficult task, and is only becoming more difficult with time.
Thus, a need exists for automated systems and methods to provide for dynamic visualization of patent documents that provide for interactive graphic user interface (GUI) visuals relating to issued patents and/or patent applications.
Prior art patent documents include the following:
U.S. Pat. No. 10,997,679 for patent map display device, patent map display method, and computer-readable recording medium including patent map display program stored therein by inventor Hajime Shirasaka, et. al, filed Nov. 27, 2019 and issued May 4, 2021, is directed to a patent map display device that displays a patent map on a user terminal that can be operated by a user and includes an information acquisition unit that acquires instruction information input to the user terminal by the user, a bibliographic DB that stores prior patent information, an analysis unit including a comparison section that compares the instruction information with the patent information and an evaluation section that performs patent evaluation of the instruction information by comparing the instruction information with the patent information on the basis of the comparison section, a patent map generation unit including a generation section that generates a map and a character representing an attribute related to an analysis result of the instruction information on the basis of attribute information including the patent evaluation and a disposition section that disposes the character in the map, and a display unit that displays a patent map generated by the patent map generation unit.
US Patent Pub. No. 2023/0086930 for intellectual-property analysis platform by inventor Lewis C. Lee, et. al., filed Sep. 17, 2021 and published Mar. 23, 2023, is directed to systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
US Patent Pub. No. 2023/0090090 for intellectual property analysis platform by inventor Rohitasva Dutta, et. al., filed Sep. 17, 2021 and published Mar. 23, 2023 is directed to systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
US Patent Pub. No. 2023/0089425 for intellectual-property analysis platform by inventors Lewis C. Lee., et. al., filed Sep. 17, 2021 and published Mar. 23, 2023, is directed to systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
US Patent Pub. No. 2023/0087206 for intellectual-property analysis platform by inventors Lewis C. Lee, et. al., filed Sep. 17, 2021 and published Mar. 23, 2023, is directed to systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
US Patent Pub. No. 2023/0086106 for intellectual-property analysis platform by inventor David Craig Andrews, filed Sep. 17, 2021 and published Mar. 23, 2023, is directed to systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) analysis platform architectures. A scoring component may be utilized to produce scores for IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The scoring component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the scoring of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the of IP assets. The scoring component may utilize data from a coverage component, an opportunity component and/or an exposure component to assess a comprehensive score associated with a group of IP assets of a targeted entity.
US Patent Pub. No. 2022/0374918 for data-driven index for identification and ranking of companies for a selected technology by inventors Yaseen Tamer Refaie Moussa, et. al., filed May 7, 2021 and published Nov. 24, 2022, is directed to one example method including identifying companies involved in development and/or use of a technology, and identifying the companies includes identifying datasets from which features are to be extracted, wherein each feature comprises an aspect of one of the companies that relates to the technology, and extracting the features from the datasets. Next, the method includes selecting a subset of the identified companies, for each feature assigned to a company in the subset, normalizing a value of the feature relative to respective values of all other features assigned to that company, assigning a weight to each of the features whose value has been normalized, calculating, for each company in the subset, an index value based on the features assigned to that company and the weights assigned to those features, and generating an index that ranks the companies in the subset by their respective index values.
US Patent Pub. No. 2022/0343444 for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analysis for patent and non-patent documents by inventors Alex Chan, et. al., filed May 2, 2022 and published Oct. 27, 2022, is directed to systems, methods, and computer program methods for modifying a configuration of a document management system. In some implementation document data are received as machine learning inputs, where the document data represent one or more documents. Then, a pattern is recognized in the one or more documents using machine learning. Based on the recognized pattern, a configuration of a document management system is modified.
U.S. Pat. No. 10,133,791 for data mining and analysis system and method for legal documents by inventor Alex Chan, filed Sep. 8, 2015 and issued Nov. 20, 2018, is directed to systems, methods, and computer program methods for assessing a validity or invalidity of a patent. A plurality of legal documents associated with a plurality of legal cases can be received, where at least one of the plurality of legal cases can be associated with a legal proceeding. The legal proceeding can be associated with a determination of a validity or invalidity of a patent. The patent can include at least one claim. The plurality of legal documents can be stored in one or more databases. One or more predetermined patterns can be applied to the plurality of legal documents to identify reference data. The reference data can be analyzed to develop one or more analytical or statistical models. The validity or invalidity of the patent can be assessed based on the one or more analytical or statistical models.
U.S. Pat. No. 10,157,352 for artificial intelligence machine learning, and predictive analytic for patent and non-patent documents by inventors Alex Chan, et. al., filed Feb. 11, 2016, and issued Dec. 18, 2018, is directed to systems, methods, and computer program methods for modifying a configuration of a document management system. In some implementation document data are received as machine learning inputs, where the document data represent one or more documents. Then, a pattern is recognized in the one or more documents using machine learning. Based on the recognized pattern, a configuration of a document management system is modified.
U.S. Pat. No. 11,321,631 for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics for patent and non-patent documents by inventors Alex Chan, et. al., filed Oct. 28, 2018, and issued May 3, 2022, is directed to systems, methods, and computer program methods for modifying a configuration of a document management system. In some implementation document data are received as machine learning inputs, where the document data represent one or more documents. Then, a pattern is recognized in the one or more documents using machine learning. Based on the recognized pattern, a configuration of a document management system is modified.
US Patent Pub. No. 2022/0036487 for patent collaboration and analysis system by inventors Jay Guiliano, et. al., filed Apr. 24, 2021, and published Feb. 3, 2022, is directed to an advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and/or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,542,449 for collaboration and analysis system for disparate information sources by inventors Jay Guiliano, et. a., filed Mar. 15, 2013, and issued Jan. 10, 2017, is directed to an advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and/or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis.
US Patent No. 2019/0244313 for patent collaboration and analysis system by inventors Jay Guiliano, et. al., filed Sep. 8, 2018, and published Aug. 8, 2019, is directed to an advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and/or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis.
US Patent Pub. No. 2021/0082070 for database and machine learning enabled system for patent analytics, distribution and management by inventors Nicole Ann Shanahan, et. al., filed Jul. 27, 2020, and published Mar. 18, 2021, is directed to a machine learning model is trained on a plurality of patents. The present invention couples the machine learning model to a platform where a partner can discover inventions identified by the machine learning model and contact the patent owner in the real world to engage in discussions about acquiring the patent or the technology. The goal of the present invention is to enhance broader access to patent and technology rights across the innovation ecosystem.
U.S. Pat. No. 11,397,780 for automated method and system for clustering enriched company seeds into cluster and selecting best values for each attribute within the cluster to generate a company profile by inventors Eli Pogrebezky, et. al., filed Nov. 20, 2020, and issued Jul. 26, 2022, is directed to methods and systems are provided for automatically generating company profiles. Independent seed source services each crawl web pages to collect seeds from different web-based sources. A seed enricher module can then fetch additional information for each of the collected seeds from other different web-based sources and generate an enriched company seed for each collected seed. The enriched company seeds can then be automatically clustered into different clusters that each represent a particular company. A particular value for each attribute of each cluster that is determined to have the highest score can then be selected for inclusion in a corresponding company profile for that cluster.
U.S. Pat. No. 10,866,996 for automated method and system for clustering enriched company seeds into a cluster and selecting best values for each attribute within the cluster to generate a company profile by inventors Eli Pogrebezky, et. al., filed Jan. 29, 2019, and issued Dec. 15, 2020, is directed to methods and systems are provided for automatically generating company profiles. Independent seed source services each crawl web pages to collect seeds from different web-based sources. A seed enricher module can then fetch additional information for each of the collected seeds from other different web-based sources and generate an enriched company seed for each collected seed. The enriched company seeds can then be automatically clustered into different clusters that each represent a particular company. A particular value for each attribute of each cluster that is determined to have the highest score can then be selected for inclusion in a corresponding company profile for that cluster.
US Patent Pub. No. 2020/0089740 for structural patent-claim-graphic automatic displaying equipment by inventor Hong-Shin Tsai, filed Sep. 18, 2019, and published Mar. 19, 2020, is directed to a structural patent-claim-graphic automatic displaying equipment, including a paragraph-content-and-paragraph-hierarchical-level-value determining device, an element noun data obtaining device, an interrelationship data obtaining device, and a division content obtaining device, automatically transfers a patent claim to a structural patent-claim-graphic automatic displaying equipment and displays the structural patent-claim-graphic automatic displaying equipment.
US Patent Pub. No. 2018/0218451 for intellectual property portfolio management system by inventor Jurgen Bebber, filed Mar. 23, 2018, and published Aug. 2, 2018, is directed to a computer system based intellectual property (IP) portfolio management system. The system includes a data store configured to store data including user account data for a plurality of user accounts, a client interface providing user access to the system via a communication network by user computer systems or devices, a system controller in data communication with the client interface and data store via the communication network. The system controller includes a user interface and display module configured to facilitate data display to a user and receiving user input via the client interface, a user account module configured create user accounts and maintain user account information inclusive of access control of data stored in the data store for storing, updating and retrieving data stored in the data store, the data for each user including user account data, a portfolio activity controller configured to create and automatically administer a plurality of types of IP matters, each IP matter being associated with a user account, provide automated guidance of one or more activities in relation to each type of IP matter to a user and facilitate action for one or more activities in relation to an IP matter, and one or more integration modules, each configured to facilitate machine to machine communication between the system and an external IP system, whereby transactions between the external IP system and the system are executed under control of the portfolio activity controller.
US Patent Pub. No. 2018/0075384 for a data-driven innovation decision support system, and method by inventor Jianxi Luo, filed Sep. 18, 2017, and published Mar. 15, 2018, is directed to a data processor implemented method for assessing an innovation entity within a network map of various technology domains as nodes. The method comprises generating and visualizing the network map; assessing and visualizing a level of strength of the innovation entity in each technology domain; and providing at least one suggestion for the innovation entity for at least two nodes of the network map. It is advantageous that the provision of the at least one suggestion is based on a weight of a link between the at least two nodes of the network map. A graphical user interface enabling the method is also provided.
U.S. Pat. No. 10,891,701 for method and system for evaluating intellectual property by inventors Carl Jessen, et. al., filed Jul. 12, 2016, and issued Jan. 12, 2021, is directed to computer processor generated analysis and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface. The aggregation and analysis includes a method and system for evaluating a patent or patent application and proposed claim text by examining claim related information maintained in databases as well as image related information maintained in databases. The method includes deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection, such as claims found in a classification schema and also deriving unique characteristics from images and ascertaining the scope of similarity between the images. A signature and scope of the patent claims and images may be graphically depicted to a user using various graphic elements in a user interface.
US Patent Pub. No. 2012/0278244 for evaluating intellectual property by inventors Lewis Lee, et. al., filed Apr. 15, 2012, and published Nov. 1, 2012, is directed to aggregation, analysis, and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface. The analysis includes techniques for evaluating a patent or patent application by examining claim-related information. These techniques include deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection (such as claims found in a common class). The signature and scope of patent claims may be graphically depicted using various graphics elements in a user interface.
US Patent Pub. No. 2016/0148327 for intelligent engine for analysis of intellectual property by inventor Rolf Buchholz, filed Nov. 24, 2014, and published May 26, 2016, is directed to an intelligent intellectual property (IP) engine (IIPE) retrieving IP-related data from public or proprietary IP databases. Public IP databases include, for example, Espacenet, USPTO, EPO and other websites. IP-related data may be, for example, patents, non-patent literature, R&D information. The retrieved IP-related data is processed to structure, visualize, analyze and interpret the data in an individual context, thereby enabling users to make operational and strategic business decisions.
US Patent Pub. No. 2013/0339337 for auto tagging method and system by inventors Raad Alkhateeb, et. al., filed May 29, 2013, and published Dec. 19, 2013, is directed to a method for categorizing content from a website associated with an enterprise company for ranking of said company, said method performed by a computing device having a processing structure; and a memory including instructions executable by said processing structure to cause said processing structure to at least: request a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the website; validate the URL; create a profile associated with the enterprise company and storing the URL in the memory; automatically crawl the website for content and to create a site index; parse the content to determine the occurrence of a predefined set of keywords pertaining to products and services and business activities of the company, and rank the keywords according to relevance pertaining to at least one category; categorize the website into at least one industry category; and determine whether the website is properly categorized.
US Patent Pub. No. 2012/0290571 for evaluating intellectual property by inventors Lewis Lee, et. al., filed Apr. 15, 2012, and published Nov. 15, 2012, is directed to aggregation, analysis, and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface. The analysis includes techniques for evaluating a patent or patent application by examining claim-related information. These techniques include deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection (such as claims found in a common class). The signature and scope of patent claims may be graphically depicted using various graphics elements in a user interface.
US Patent Pub. No. 2012/0290487 for evaluating intellectual property by inventors Lewis Lee, et. al., filed Apr. 15, 2012, and published Nov. 15, 2012, is directed to aggregation, analysis, and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface. The analysis includes techniques for evaluating a patent or patent application by examining claim-related information. These techniques include deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection (such as claims found in a common class). The signature and scope of patent claims may be graphically depicted using various graphics elements in a user interface.
US Patent Pub. No. 2012/0278244 for evaluating intellectual property by inventors Lewis Lee, et. al., filed Apr. 15, 2012 and published Nov. 1, 2012, is directed to aggregation, analysis, and presentation of patent and business data in a common interface. The analysis includes techniques for evaluating a patent or patent application by examining claim-related information. These techniques include deriving unique signatures of individual claims and ascertaining scope of individual claims relative to other claims in a collection (such as claims found in a common class). The signature and scope of patent claims may be graphically depicted using various graphics elements in a user interface.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,145,640 for system and method for patent evaluation and visualization of the results thereof by inventor Allan Williams, filed Aug. 11, 2004 and issued Mar. 27, 2012, is directed to a method for evaluating a patent document, which includes the steps of introducing a set of one or more patent indices, characterizing different aspects of the patent document; combining said patent indices into a Patent Quality index (the PQ), characterizing value of the patent document; and visualizing the value of the patent document by using a color coding of the patent document according to the value of the PQ index. Conveniently, a correspondence between the value of the Patent Quality index of the patent document and the wavelength of a selected color of a visible part of the light spectrum is provided. A corresponding method and system for visualizing results of evaluation of a patent portfolio are also described.
U.S. Pat. No. 10,095,778 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Jul. 6, 2015, and issued Oct. 9, 2018, is directed to a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like is provided. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,075,849 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Jul. 22, 2014, and issued Jul. 7, 2015, is directed to a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like is provided. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,818,996 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Aug. 2, 2013, and issued Aug. 26, 2014, is directed to a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,504,560 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Mar. 2, 2012, and issued Aug. 6, 2013, is directed to a method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment a method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects is provided. In another embodiment a search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed is provided. In another embodiment, a search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched is provided.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,131,701 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Mar. 29, 2010, and issued Mar. 6, 2012, is directed to a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping (“SOM”) technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,716,226 for method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects by inventor Jonathan Barney, filed Sep. 27, 2005, and issued May 11, 2010, is directed to a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping (“SOM”) technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched.
U.S. Pat. No. 11,275,935 for patent analysis applications and corresponding user interface features by inventor Michael Schuster, filed Apr. 19, 2019, and issued Mar. 15, 2022, is directed to various embodiments for patent analysis applications. A computing device may be directed to parse an electronic version of a patent document having a detailed description, a claims section, and at least one drawing. In various embodiments, parsing the electronic version of the patent document may include applying an OCR process to the electronic document, obtaining a list of claim terms used in the claims section, identifying instances of the claim terms used in the detailed description, identifying a reference numeral corresponding to the claim terms from the detailed description, and identifying portions of the drawing that includes the reference numeral. In response to user interaction with a claim term, a dialog may be shown proximate to the claim term, where the dialog includes a portion of the detailed description that includes the claim term and/or the drawing that comprises the reference numeral corresponding to the claim term.
US Patent Pub. No. 2019/0279073 for computer generated determination of patentability by inventor Sasmito Adibowo, filed Mar. 7, 2018, and published Sep. 12, 2019, directed to a system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating a patentability metric and training a patentability model. In an embodiment, a patent analysis system generates and updates a patentability model. The patentability model utilizes vectorized patent publication data and public corpus data to generate a function for predicting the likelihood of patent grant. The patentability model also considers patent grant statistics in generating the function. After generating the function, the patent analysis system may maintain and/or update the patentability model based on new publications and idea disclosures. In this manner, the patent analysis system may analyze vectorized versions of idea disclosures to generate an indicator for predicting patentability.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,959,582 for intellectual property information retrieval by inventors Jesse Sukman, et. al., filed Oct. 23, 2014, and issued May 1, 2018, directed to methods, systems, and media for creating, storing, and using an interactive hierarchical arrangement of technical elements useful for conducting efficient patent infringement and similar analysis. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is adapted to be displayed on a user-engageable computer display in a manner that allows a user to select and de-select particular technical elements. Methods and systems include storing records of technical elements in hierarchical relationships, which elements are correlated to specific patent claims during an annotation process. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is displayed so as to indicate genus-species relationships among the technical elements, while the stored correlations are used as a basis to perform highly efficient claims-based patent analysis.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,336,304 for patent analytics system by inventor Gary Speier, filed Nov. 10, 2009 and issued May 10, 2016, directed to a method of maintaining a database of patent claim entries. The patent claim entries are associated with one or more patent documents as well as one or more parameters characterizing a patent claim. The database may be accessed to retrieve a selection of one or more patent claim entries. This may be accomplished by retrieving the one or more parameters associated with the selection of the one or more patent claim entries. Additionally, one or more of the parameters characterizing a patent claims may be selected. A report chart is presented on a display device. The report chart depicts relationships between the selected parameters and the one or more patent claim entries retrieved from the database. The relationships are depicted as a plurality of data points. Also a visualization option may be selected and the report chart may be modified based on the selection. The visualization options may include highlighting related data points, presenting claim language associated with a data point, and presenting more parameters associated with the data point.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,335,998 for interactive global map by inventors Bruce Rubinger, et. al., filed Oct. 8, 2009, and issued Dec. 18, 2012, directed to systems and methods are provided for generating an interactive map for displaying and analyzing a compressive intellectual property landscape within a given field. Based on content analysis of relevant patents and patent applications, this prior art map provides a systematic review of vast quantities of data, thereby allowing the user to discern critical technology and product trends, prior art references, and the strategies of both leading and emerging competitors. Each patent represented on the map can be analyzed within the context of the prior art landscape to uncover novel features, strong claims, and business and technology trends. This comprehensive view can provide a foundation for creating effective corporate strategies in-tune with the realities of the intellectual property terrain.
US Patent Pub. No. 2021/0358064 for patent strategy chart graphic representation method, digital system for assisting in graphic representation of patent strategy chart, patent strategy chart, patent strategy chart generation method, management system, computer program, and patent strategy chart component by inventor Hiroshi Kudo, filed Apr. 9, 2021 and published Nov. 18, 2021, directed to embodiments are expressed by a point, and the scope of the patent claims is expressed by a fan shape. Where a patentee of one patent is identical to a practitioner of one embodiment, a center angle of the fan shape representing the scope of the patent claims is disposed to overlap the point representing the embodiments or to be near the point. When there are plural fan shapes, the fan shapes are radially disposed. Where the practitioner is a third party, when the embodiments are included in the scope of the patent claims, the point representing the embodiments is disposed to be positioned inside the fan shape representing the scope of the patent claims, and when the embodiments are not included in the scope of the patent claims, the point representing the embodiments is disposed to be positioned outside the fan shape representing the scope of the patent claims.
U.S. Pat. No. 11,023,721 for document information evaluating device, document information evaluating method, and document information evaluating program by inventors Takashi Mikami, et. al., filed Jul. 22, 2020, and issued Jun. 1, 2021, directed to an information acquiring unit configured to acquire input information input from a user terminal that is able to be operated by a user from the user terminal, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of document information, a calculation unit configured to decompose the input information into predetermined constituent units and calculate a matching condition with one piece of document information among the plurality of pieces of document information stored in the storage unit as a score for each decomposed constituent unit, an output unit configured to output a comparison table representing a degree of difference between the input information and the document information for each constituent unit on the basis of the score, and an input unit configured to input a self-evaluation of the document information that is performed by the user to the comparison table.
US Patent Pub. No. 2022/0398273 for software-aided consistent analysis of documents by inventors Joseph F. Dearing, et. al., filed Jun. 9, 2022, and published Dec. 15, 2022, directed to a system for automatic analysis and segregation of documents. The system provides a graphical user interface for receiving inputs pertaining to a first document of a plurality of documents in a document analysis project. For example, the graphical user interfaces may receive a classification input classifying the first document with a first classification. The system automatically analyzes other documents in the plurality of documents to identify a subset of documents that are similar to the first document, and automatically classify the subset of the documents that are similar to the first document with the first classification. Further, the present technology pertains to conducting a patent analysis project by a team of analysts, including presenting a detailed analysis user interface for reviewing patent-related documents, where the detailed analysis user interface includes text of a first patent-related document to be analyzed and categories and related subcategories.
US Patent Pub. No. 2024/0020642 for patent valuation using artificial intelligence by inventors Yoshikazu Akamine, et. al., filed Sep. 26, 2023, and published Jan. 18, 2024, directed to a system and method for using artificial intelligence for patent valuation. The method includes obtaining a master list of patent classification codes used by a patent office. The method also includes, for each patent issued by the patent office: obtaining a respective set of patent classification codes assigned to the respective patent and forming a respective training vector. Each element in the respective training vector is a categorical variable that specifies whether a patent classification code is included in the respective set of classification codes. The system receives a respective user-specified value metric for each patent. The method also includes training a machine learning model according to a training data table that includes the training vectors. The machine learning model is configured to predict value metrics for patents according to their corresponding patent classification codes.
US Patent Pub. No. 2006/0224982 for graphical application interface product using a browser by inventors Paul Albrecht, et. al., filed Apr. 1, 2005, and published Oct. 5, 2006, directed to embodiments of a graphical application interface product using a browser, such as a web browser.
The present invention provides a system, method, and dynamic, interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for visualization and for analyzing patent documents, including text-based descriptions, diagrams or figures, and intellectual property as set forth in the patent document claims for each of the multiplicity of patent documents.
In one aspect, the system includes: at least one device in network-based communication with a remote computer and/or cloud-based computing system having a database of patent documents including figures and text descriptions and claims.
The present invention provides a patent forecast diagram for providing information about technology evolution in predetermined technology sectors including an interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating the number, content size, type of a multiplicity of patent documents (issued or granted patent versus published pending application), distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents based upon content of specification or detailed description and claims, and visual enunciation of human and computer determined insights and similarities regarding single patents or groups of patents, all within a predetermined technology sector having at least one sub-sector or category within the technology sector.
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system for interactive patent visualization, including at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform is operable to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically generate a diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein the diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, wherein a timeline indicator is shown within the diagram, wherein a center of the diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the diagram represents a most recent date in time, wherein the at least one user device is operable to display the diagram via the GUI, wherein the GUI is operable to expand and contract the scaling of the diagram based on a selected time scale, wherein the at least one platform is operable to assign each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, wherein the intelligence engine module is operable to automatically generate at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, wherein the distribution throughout the circular interactive visualization is grouped based on at least one of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributed by at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, and wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically apply at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner upon receiving a selection of the at least one patent owner, and wherein at least one color and/or at least one shading of each of a multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents not assigned to the at least one patent owner is different than the at least one color and/or the at least one shading of each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing the multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner.
In another embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system for interactive patent visualization, including at least one at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform is operable to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically generate a diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein the diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, wherein a timeline indicator is shown within the diagram, wherein a center of the diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the diagram represents a most recent date in time, wherein the at least one platform is operable to assign each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, wherein the intelligence engine module is operable to automatically generate at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, wherein the distribution throughout the circular interactive visualization is grouped based on at least one of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributed by at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one primary category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, wherein the at least one platform is operable to receive a selection of at least one patent owner, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically apply at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to the at least one patent owner upon receiving the selection of the at least one patent owner, and wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically reduce the opacity of each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents not assigned to the at least one patent owner upon receiving the selection of the at least one patent owner.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for interactive patent visualization, including providing at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, the at least one platform automatically generating at least one diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein at least one diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, the at least one diagram including a timeline indicator shown within the at least one diagram, wherein a center of the at least one diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the at least one diagram represents a most recent date in time, the at least one platform causing the at least one user device to display the at least one diagram via the GUI, the GUI expanding or contracting the scaling of the at least one diagram based on a selected time scale, the at least one platform assigning each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, the intelligence engine module automatically generating at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, the at least one platform distributing the multiplicity of documents throughout the circular interactive visualization based on at least one grouping of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributing the multiplicity of documents based on at least one grouping of at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, and the at least one platform automatically applying at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner upon receiving a selection of at least one patent owner.
These and other aspects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art after a reading of the following description of the preferred embodiment when considered with the drawings.
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In the following description, like reference characters designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views. Also in the following description, it is to be understood that such terms as “forward,” “rearward,” “front,” “back,” “right,” “left,” “upwardly,” “downwardly,” and the like are words of convenience and are not to be construed as limiting terms. Referring now to the drawings in general, the illustrations are for the purpose of describing a preferred embodiment of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention thereto.
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system for interactive patent visualization, including at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform is operable to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically generate a diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein the diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, wherein a timeline indicator is shown within the diagram, wherein a center of the diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the diagram represents a most recent date in time, wherein the at least one user device is operable to display the diagram via the GUI, wherein the GUI is operable to expand and contract the scaling of the diagram based on a selected time scale, wherein the at least one platform is operable to assign each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, wherein the intelligence engine module is operable to automatically generate at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, wherein the distribution throughout the circular interactive visualization is grouped based on at least one of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributed by at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, and wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically apply at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner upon receiving a selection of the at least one patent owner, and wherein at least one color and/or at least one shading of each of a multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents not assigned to the at least one patent owner is different than the at least one color and/or the at least one shading of each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing the multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner.
In another embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system for interactive patent visualization, including at least one at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform is operable to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically generate a diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein the diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, wherein a timeline indicator is shown within the diagram, wherein a center of the diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the diagram represents a most recent date in time, wherein the at least one platform is operable to assign each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, wherein the intelligence engine module is operable to automatically generate at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, wherein the distribution throughout the circular interactive visualization is grouped based on at least one of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributed by at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one primary category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, wherein the at least one platform is operable to receive a selection of at least one patent owner, wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically apply at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to the at least one patent owner upon receiving the selection of the at least one patent owner, and wherein the at least one platform is operable to automatically reduce the opacity of each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents not assigned to the at least one patent owner upon receiving the selection of the at least one patent owner.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for interactive patent visualization, including providing at least one platform configured for network communication with at least one user device, wherein the at least one platform includes an intelligence engine module, wherein the at least one platform provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device, the at least one platform automatically generating at least one diagram based on patent data from at least one database using the intelligence engine, wherein at least one diagram is a circular interactive visualization comprising a multiplicity of graphical elements distributed based on a dynamic timeline, wherein each graphical element represents a patent document, wherein the dynamic timeline is modifiable, the at least one diagram including a timeline indicator shown within the at least one diagram, wherein a center of the at least one diagram represents an oldest date in time and a perimeter of the at least one diagram represents a most recent date in time, the at least one platform causing the at least one user device to display the at least one diagram via the GUI, the GUI expanding or contracting the scaling of the at least one diagram based on a selected time scale, the at least one platform assigning each of a multiplicity of documents with one of a multiplicity of primary category labels automatically using the intelligence engine or based on a user selection, the intelligence engine module automatically generating at least one suggested category label for at least one additional document based on the multiplicity of primary category labels assigned to the multiplicity of documents, the at least one platform distributing the multiplicity of documents throughout the circular interactive visualization based on at least one grouping of the multiplicity of primary category labels and further distributing the multiplicity of documents based on at least one grouping of at least one sub-category label, wherein the selection of the at least one category label dynamically changes the diagram to an interactive semi-circular interactive visualization, and the at least one platform automatically applying at least one color and/or at least one shading to each of the multiplicity of graphical elements representing a multiplicity of documents assigned to at least one patent owner upon receiving a selection of at least one patent owner.
The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically generating from patent research data a patent forecast diagram for providing information about technology evolution in predetermined technology sectors and patent market value based on relevant context including but not limited to patent context and market or commercial data, the patent forecast diagram including an interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating the number, content size, type of a multiplicity of patent documents (issued or granted patent versus published pending application), distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents based upon content of specification or detailed description and claims, visual enunciation of human and computer determined insights and similarities regarding single patents or groups of patents, and visual representation of related real world events including news articles, press releases, product announcements, and professional opinion articles, all within a predetermined technology sector having at least one sub-sector or category within the technology sector.
The systems and methods of research, analysis and visualization of the present invention provide for enhanced tagging, grouping, or association features for research results (e.g., documents or data elements) that provide for automatic links directly to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) number that corresponds to each patent document, i.e., US issued patent document and/or US published pending application document, plus user defined and computer automated tagging connectivity among similar and dissimilar patent documents derived by incorporating patent document properties including claim text, abstract text, activity dates, CPC classifications, and user defined metadata.
The present invention provides for a system for automatically generating from patent research data a patent forecast diagram for providing information about technology evolution in predetermined technology sectors and patent market value based on relevant context including but not limited to patent context and market or commercial data, the patent forecast diagram including an interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating a number or volume, a content size, a type of a multiplicity of patent documents selected from issued or granted patents and published pending applications, distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents based upon content of specification or detailed description and claims, visual enunciation of human and computer determined insights and similarities regarding single patents or groups of patents, and a visual representation of related business events information including news articles, press releases, product announcements, and professional opinion articles, all within a predetermined technology sector having at least one sub-sector or category within the technology sector. The automated research, analysis, and visualization functions of the present invention provide for automated tagging, grouping, and association for research results based upon machine learning of software comparing data from network-based sources in real time.
Also, the business events information is distributed over a multiplicity of websites on the internet, which could not be automatically performed without the use of machine learning software code within the present invention, which also provide for the business events information to be automatically searched and retrieved by at least one programmed command. At least one programmed command is generated by the machine learning software for automatically curating the business events information and prioritizing it based upon relevance to the predetermined technology sector and recency. The automated research, analysis, and visualization functions provide for automated tagging, grouping, and association for research results based upon machine learning of software comparing data from network-based sources in real time.
Preferably, the research results include electronic documents or data elements having automatic links directly to a company website hosted on the internet and real time stock status and price for public companies. Also, the research results include electronic documents or data elements having automatic links directly to a Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) number that corresponds to each patent document.
Preferably, automated tagging connectivity provided among similar and dissimilar patent documents is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning algorithms in software code for automatically incorporating patent document properties including claim text, abstract text, activity dates, CPC classifications, and metadata. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an AI model configured for supervised, unsupervised, or reinforced learning or training. In one embodiment, the AI model is based on multiple sets of training data. The multiple sets of training data are a subset of user input data. For example, a user device is enabled to tag patent documents with category labels, and those patent documents tagged with category labels by the user device are used for training the AI model. Each of U.S. Pat. No. 9,922,286 titled “Detecting and Correcting Anomalies in Computer-Based Reasoning Systems” and U.S. application Ser. No. 15/900,398 is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The AI model is operable to utilize a plurality of learning techniques including, but not limited to, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), neural networks (NNs), artificial neural networks (ANNs), support vector machines (SVMs), Markov decision process (MDP), and/or natural language processing (NLP). The AI model is operable to use any of the aforementioned learning techniques alone or in combination.
Further, the AI model is operable to utilize predictive analytics techniques including, but not limited to, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), neural networks (NNs) (e.g., long short term memory (LSTM) neural networks), deep learning, historical data, and/or data mining to make future predictions and/or models. The AI model is preferably operable to recommend and/or perform actions based on historical data, external data sources, ML, AI, NNs, and/or other learning techniques. The AI model is operable to utilize predictive modeling and/or optimization algorithms including, but not limited to, heuristic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithms, technical analysis descriptors, combinatorial algorithms, quantum optimization algorithms, iterative methods, deep learning techniques, and/or feature selection techniques.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the display label can be different from the tagging label. A tag is a standalone classification based upon predetermined criteria; a tag can be a CPC or linked to a CPC. It provides for tagging within a sector. A visualization is operable to automatically display tags within a sector and the visualization can be modified selectively to display alternative tags within the sector, i.e., tags that were not used automatically for grouping results within a data set for a sector. If tags are linked to at least one CPC, then the tag is automatically highlighted in a detailed view for each of the multiplicity of individual patent documents. Also, the present invention provides for automatic click-select or preprogrammed keys to switch detailed view for other documents. A sector category input can be received by the system from user inputs via interactive graphic user interface (GUI) so that documents can be grouped by sector in addition to being identified by tags or tagging. Tags are user-assigned or automatically assigned by the computer software based on relevance criteria.
The dynamic, interactive visualization of the present invention provides for displaying result sets according to various criteria established during the research phase when inputs are provided for CPC and/or key word research on database, i.e., Structured Query Language (SQL) or N-Gram or N-Graph fuzzy search performed on the database.
The present invention systems and methods provide for content-dense visualization via dynamic, interactive GUIs that display patent document information in combination with insights; patent data is configurable for visual representation and order by time dimensions and further includes: highlighting and association based upon patent asset ownership or assignment recordation for each patent document; drilling into detailed information, such as by way of example and not limitation, patent claims tree diagrams; visually connecting similar patent documents, i.e., related by owner and/or technology classification or sub-classification; and/or visually connecting news events, press releases and/or expert insights to the patent data and its visual representation in the GUI.
Additionally, the database systems and methods of the present invention provide for functionality including: automatically importing documents from one or more direct sources accessible via a network; enabling automated recovery and least cost acquisition of data via the network and at least one source of data; enabling artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning for automated associations and grouping of data elements and/or enabling human insight and association override of AI-based grouping or associations of data elements; enabling structured and/or fuzzy data retrieval and analysis automatically based upon technology sector targets and search queries; and/or automatically generating a technology sector based on patent data from at least one database using an intelligence engine.
In a preferred embodiment, a system according to the present invention submits queries to national patent office electronic depositories across one or more electronic network in real-time and receives the query results from the national patent office electronic depositories across one or more electronic networks in near-real-time. Thus, a method of the present invention includes the steps of submitting queries in real-time across an electronic network to a national patent office depository and receiving the query results in near-real-time across the electronic network from the national patent office depository.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides systems and methods for interactive patent visualization. At least one user device is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one server platform. The at least one server platform provides an interactive and dynamic graphical user interface (GUI) to the at least one user device. The at least one server platform comprises an intelligence engine including an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The at least one server platform accesses at least one national patent database, and generates a patent forecast diagram based on patent data from the at least one national patent database. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically generate a patent forecast diagram based on patent data from at least one national patent database using the intelligence engine. The patent forecast diagram comprises a multiplicity of graphics distributed over time and by category, representing a distribution of patent documents for a predetermined technology sector over time, with each graphic representing a patent document. The at least one user device displays the patent forecast diagram via the interactive and dynamic GUI. The at least one user device is enabled to click-select one of the multiplicity of graphics and display related patent data represented by the click-selected one of the multiplicity of graphics. The category comprises at least one category label. In one embodiment, the intelligence engine automatically creates the at least one category label and tag the patent documents with the at least one category label based on patent document information including claim text, abstract text, activity dates, CPC codes, and metadata. In one embodiment, the at least one user device tags a multiplicity of patent documents with the at least one category label. The intelligence engine is operable to train the AI model based on the multiplicity of patent documents tagged by the at least one user device. In one embodiment, the size of each of the graphics represents a length of the patent document. In one embodiment, the size of each of the graphics represents other quality indicators of the patent document. In one embodiment, the multiplicity of graphics comprises at least one geometric shape, and the at least one geometric shape comprises at least one circle. In one embodiment, the at least one circle comprises a filled circle representing an issued patent document. In one embodiment, the at least one circle comprises an unfilled circle representing a published pending patent application.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is further operable to access to a multiplicity of market related databases, and generate a visual representation of market information including news articles, press releases, product announcements, and professional opinion articles for the predetermined technology sector. The at least one user device is enabled to display the visual representation of market information via the interactive and dynamic GUI. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to search and retrieve the market information from the multiplicity of market related databases. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform comprises an intelligence engine including a machine learning model operable to automatically curate and prioritize the market information based upon a relevancy value and a recency value for the predetermined technology sector. In one embodiment, the intelligence engine is operable to curate and prioritize the market information based upon a patent portfolio associated with a company and/or an individual. Alternatively, the intelligence engine is operable to curate and prioritize the market information based upon historical patent activity and/or market activity associated with a company and/or an individual. The market information includes electronic documents or data elements having automatic links directly to a company website hosted on the internet, real time stock status and price for public companies. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform performs advanced analytics and provides insights for the predetermined sector based on the patent data and the market information.
To provide a full view of a patent document owner and generate predictive analytics for, but not limited to, competitive intelligence, investment trends, identification of market disrupters, competitive threats, corporate partnerships or acquisition targets, and/or potential identification of potential infringers, the at least one server platform is operable to access a multiplicity of third-party company profile databases, and automatically generate a company profile associated with the third-party data, including, but not limited to, financial information, current operating status, employee count, and number of exits. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically update the company profiles at set time intervals using the intelligence engine module. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically update the company profiles at least once a week, at least once a month, at least every other month, at least every six months, and/or at least once a year.
The display provides for patent documents to be distributed over a radial, scatter plot, or circular diagram, with the patent documents distributed from the origin to the extent based on publication or issue date. In one embodiment, the patent documents are distributed from the periphery of the diagram based upon publication or issue date. In a preferred embodiment, the oldest patent documents are at the origin of the diagram and the most recently published or issued at the extent. Other criteria for distributing the patent documents are also provided for. For example, the patent documents can be distributed by application date, priority date, assignment date, rejection date, decision date, or market event date, such as financing event announcement or press release date. In one embodiment, the display provides for graphics representing patent documents to be distributed over a circular interactive visualization.
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The display provides for highlighting patent documents by assignee and other matching criteria.
The display provides for a roll-over pop-up of information, such as document number, assignee, title, abstract and the like.
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In one embodiment, the top perimeter of the radial plot of the display includes one or more color-coded sections corresponding to one or more categories within the technological sector associated with the display, each with a corresponding display label. In one embodiment, the display includes a list of assignees with a corresponding number of documents displayed adjacent to the name of each assignee. In one embodiment, the list of assignees includes the assignees with the largest number of documents assigned a category label within the technological sector associated with the display. As shown in
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In one embodiment, the at least one server platform provides for the automatic creation of a session associated with a technological sector, using the intelligence engine module. Wherein the at least one server platform, using the intelligence engine, is operable to perform topic extraction for simple key words and is further operable to perform a patent document search for the key words in the descriptions of the claims and the claims. Wherein the session includes at least one query module, which is automatically extracted at set time intervals, such as, but not limited to, twice a week. The at least one server platform is operable to run categorization algorithms or clustering based on the original trained intelligence engine, or the at least one server platform performs a combination of categorization algorithms and clustering to generate a set of clusters, wherein a representation model takes the most frequent keywords from each cluster and creates a tag/category label in natural language for that cluster.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically create a technology sector about a company, including, but not limited to, company inventions and competitor inventions.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically create a technology sector associated with a specific patent document provided by a user.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to automatically create a session based on a CPC classification code.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to use a large learning model (LLM)-based topic extraction system to accept user input in natural language and synthesize a set of session queries that match the user query. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to use LLM-based topic extraction to combine company, individual document, CPC code, and keyword searches into a single session.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to use a domain-specific semantic model trained to understand longer texts and claims of patent documents to provide enhanced category tag suggestion performance.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to perform hierarchical clustering, operable to group lower-level categories into higher level clusters of patent documents. In one embodiment, the intelligence engine of the at least one server platform is operable to perform confidence-based tagging and outlier tagging of patent documents. In one embodiment, the intelligence engine of the at least one server platform is operable to automatically update technology sectors and sessions. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to perform graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated tagging. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to perform relevance detection algorithms when performing automated tagging of category tags to patent documents. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to perform CPC code tagging by adding primary CPC code category tags to patent documents.
In one embodiment, category labels applied to a patent document in one session are not assigned to the patent document if it is imported into another session. In another embodiment, category labels applied to a patent document in one session are automatically assigned to the patent document when it is imported into another session. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform enables a user device to automatically “send” at least one patent document to another session. For example, if a document appears relevant to “semiconductors” in a healthcare related sector, then the user device is able to selectively send the document to the semiconductor sector. In one embodiment, sending the document to another sector deletes the copy of the document from the sector from which it was sent. In another embodiment, sending the document to another sector does not delete any copy of the document, but merely causes the document to also be imported into the destination sector. In one embodiment, each session includes an associated “sent folder” including all documents sent from another session. If a sent document was already in the session before being sent, then the send folder will not create a duplicate document and any category labels assigned to the document within the session will still be applied to the document within the sent folder.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform includes at least one document importer module. The document importer module allows a user device to automatically import one or more patent documents into a session by entering a unique identifier, such as an application number, a publication number, or a patent number, for each of the one or more patent documents. In another embodiment, the document importer module further allows a user to specify at least one category label for each imported document, causing the document to automatically be assigned the at least one category label when it is imported into the session. Furthermore, if the document already exists within the session, then the document will be applied the at least one category label.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform automatically re-sounds at least one search query at one or more predetermined times and automatically imports each of the sounded patent documents. In one embodiment, the automatic resounding and automatic importing is performed by at least one extractor module. In one embodiment, the at least one extractor module includes a plurality of extractor modules. When one extractor module goes offline or is unable to perform automatic resounding and/or automatic importing for a particular sector, the at least one server platform is operable to reassign a different one of the plurality of extractor modules to perform the automatic resounding and/or automatic importing for that particular sector. Therefore, the at least one server platform is able to better avoid errors that may occur with individual extractor modules.
By rerunning search queries, the session is able to add newly published and/or newly issued patent documents within the technological sector such that a user is able to easily keep up to date with the technological sector. As shown in
In one embodiment, a patent document only appears on the radial plot associated with a particular session if the patent document is assigned at least one category label having a display order, display label, and/or a display category. In another embodiment, a patent document does not appear on the radial plot when it is assigned one or more category labels each having a display order, display label, and/or display category if each of the one or more category labels is also designated as private. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform generates a list of display categories based on the display category assigned to each category label. In another embodiment, the list of display categories only includes display categories associated with category labels that include a display order and/or display label, and which have been applied to at least one patent document. In one embodiment, when a radial plot associated with a particular session is opened, the categories displayed surrounding the upper perimeter of the radial plot include each entry on the list of display categories. In one embodiment, the color associated with each category displayed surrounding the upper perimeter of the radial plot is equivalent to the color assigned to at least one category label that designates the respective display category. In one embodiment, when a user device selects the option to only display a particular category on the radial plot, the subcategories shown on the upper perimeter of the radial plot include the display label of each category label designating the selected display category. The color associated with each subcategory is equivalent to the color assigned to the corresponding category label.
The at least one server platform enables a user device to create one or more tag sets. Each category label is able to be assigned to a tag set. In one embodiment, the tag creation interface allows a user device to specify a tag set to which the category label is assigned. In another embodiment, the at least one server platform includes a tag set management interface, as shown in
In one embodiment, tag sets are able to designated with a rank and an order. If a tag set is designated with a rank of one, then the tag set is a primary tag set. If a tag set is designated with a rank of two, then the tag set is a secondary tag set. The radial plot is operable to radially group patent documents based on which category label within the primary tag set each patent document has been assigned. In one embodiment, if a patent document has not been assigned a category label from the primary tag set, then it does not appear on the radial plot. Display labels and colors corresponding to each category label within the primary tag set appear along the top perimeter of the radial plot. In one embodiment, only one tag set is able to be assigned a rank of 1. When a category is selected to be displayed on the radial plot, then the radial plot will group each patent document within the category based on which category label within a secondary tag set each patent document has been assigned. In one embodiment, if there is more than one secondary tag set, the radial plot will group each patent document based on the category label each patent document has been assigned within the secondary tag set with the lowest order. If multiple secondary tag sets have the same order, then the radial plot will group based on the alphabetical order of the name of each secondary tag set. In one embodiment, if a patent document has been assigned a category label from the primary tag set, but has not been assigned any category label from a secondary tag set, then the patent document will automatically be grouped into a subcategory designated “uncategorized.” In another embodiment, if a patent document has been assigned a category label from the primary tag set, but has not been assigned any category label from a secondary tag set, then the patent document will not appear on the radial plot.
In one embodiment, if multiple tag sets have the same rank, then a user device is operable to select which tag set of the rank will be used to group the patent documents. For example, if the patent documents within a selected category are automatically grouped by category labels in a first secondary tag set, then a user device is able to select a second secondary tag set, which causes the at least one server platform to automatically repopulate the radial plot such that the patent documents within the selected category are automatically grouped by category labels in the second secondary tag set. In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is operable to repopulate the patent documents in the radial plot in real-time.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform provides for an assignee search interface, as shown in
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform includes an insight generator, as shown in
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform includes a document exporter, as shown in
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform includes an analysis module for each session. In one embodiment, the analysis module is operable to generate at least one score for each assignee based on at least one of: a total number of patent documents assigned to the assignee, a percentage of published applications by the assignee that mature into issued patents, a number of patent documents assigned to the assignee in a particular time period, and/or a number of category labels applied to at least one patent document assigned to the assignee. In another embodiment, the at least one score for each assignee is further based on market data for the assignee, including at least one of: revenue data for the assignee, profit data for the assignee, a market capitalization for the assignee, a valuation for the assignee, a debt-to-equity ratio for the assignee, a price-to-earnings ratio for the assignee, a price-to-book ratio for the assignee, a free cash flow for the assignee, and/or a price/earnings-to-growth ratio for the assignee. In one embodiment, market data for the assignee is compiled via the operation of at least one web crawler. In one embodiment, the analysis module is operable to generate and display a list of top assignees, wherein the assignees are ranked according to the at least one score for each assignee.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform generates an automatic alert whenever patent documents appear and are assigned to an assignee that previously had no patent documents in the session. In another embodiment, the automatic alert is generated when a number of patent documents are imported that exceeds a particular threshold number of patent documents and/or a particular threshold number of patent documents within a particular time period to an assignee that previously had no patent documents in the session. In one embodiment, the analysis module automatically calculates an average number of patents filed by an assignee, an average number of patents published for an assignee, and/or an average number of patents issued to an assignee over time (e.g. an average of 3 patents filed every year, an average of 7 patents issued every three months, etc.). In another embodiment, the analysis module provides an automatic alert if the number of patents filed, the number patent published, and/or the number of patents issued for a particular assignee over a particular time period differs considerably from the average number of patents filed, average number of patent published, and/or average number of patents issued to that assignee over a particular time period. In one embodiment, differing considerably is defined as one number being at least 25% greater than or less than another number. In another embodiment, differing considerably is defined as one number being at least 50% greater than or less than another number. In yet another embodiment, differing considerably is defined as one number being at least 100% greater than or less than another number. Alternatively, differing considerably is defined as a statistical measurement of a dataset. For example, differing considerably is defined as a first number being at least one standard deviation greater than or less than a second number, wherein the second number is based on the dataset.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform is connected to at least one internal database. In one embodiment, every time a document is imported into an individual session, the document is added to the at least one internal database. The at least one internal database provides search functionality for individual documents as well as a listing of all category labels assigned to each patent document in every session. In one embodiment, the search functionality is operable to allow a user to search for patent documents by category, corresponding to at least one CPC code, at least one International Patent Classification (IPC) code, at least one category label, or another categorization scheme. In one embodiment, the search functionality is operable to return a ranked listing of the most relevant documents based on the category selected and at least one keyword. In one embodiment, the AI model is operable to automatically rank the relevancy of the documents based on the number of times the at least one keyword appears in the patent document as a whole, the number of times the at least one keyword appears in the claims, the number of times the at least one keyword appears in the abstract, the number of times the at least one keyword appears in the description, and/or other factors. In another embodiment, the at least one internal database automatically imports all or substantially all patent documents from at least one national patent database, not just those that are imported into individual sessions.
In one embodiment, the at least one server platform includes an inventor investigation module. For applications imported into a session that are associated only with at least one individual inventor, and not with a company, the inventor investigation module performs an automatic search for information regarding the at least one individual inventor. In one embodiment, the inventor investigation module provides an automatic alert if the individual inventor is associated with a company. For example, in one embodiment, the inventor investigation module includes at least one web crawler operable to search each inventor's LINKEDIN profile in order to determine for what company each inventor works.
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The Patent Matrix diagram is automatically generated by and/or visually linked and presented on a GUI by the at least one computer, which is capable of storing, modifying, outputting, and retrieving information in communication with the at least one input device and at least one output device; and software installed and capable of running on the at least one computer for automatically importing patent claims based upon the user inputted information, parsing the patent claims hierarchically, generating a hierarchical claims diagram, and outputting a viewable diagram of the parsed claims; wherein the claims diagram shows at least part of a patent claims series in an interactive format that permits expansion and compression of the at least part of a patent claims series according to the hierarch of the at least part of a patent claims series; and wherein the software is operable for receiving sub-element selections, analyzing the sub-element selections for technology content, searching the at least one database for matching technology content, retrieving the matching technology content, receiving a study purpose; analyzing in real-time a matching technology content record for matching study purpose, retrieving in real-time the matching technology and study purpose content, displaying matching technology and study purpose content thumbnail images beside the patent claims diagram, and displaying matching technology content thumbnail images beside the patent claims diagram, and linking the thumbnail images to their sub-element.
To assist in rapid review of claims, the Patent Matrix software performs these essential functions: automated import of patent claims, automated parsing of the claims into their hierarchy, and compression/expansion functionality of the parsed claims to/from the independent claim level.
The software and system used to generate the claims diagrams, also referred to as Patent Matrix diagrams are operable to automatically and substantially instantly import issued or granted patents and patent application publications (grants/applications) directly from US Patent Office website or other database housing documents or patents, by simply selecting “File, Import”, typing in the grant/application number, and selecting the appropriate database. In the example shown in
Claims Display—A method of the present invention includes the steps of: a user entering/inputting a unique grant/application identifier into the software via a graphical user interface (GUI) or prompt; the software identifying the grant/publication from a database using the unique identifier; importing/selecting the grant/application from the database; parsing the claims to separate each claim as an element of a Patent Matrix diagram; arranging the claims in a hierarchy according to the claims numbering and relationship to other claims; compressing the claims in the hierarchy to display at least only the independent claims to the user via the GUI; the user selectively expanding the compressed claims and compressing the expanded claims as desired.
The document, grant, and/or application is imported, parsed into its hierarchical order, and compressed to the highest level for initial display on an interactive graphical user interface of a computer screen or electronic display, as shown in
The diagrammatic user interactive compression of claims is particularly useful for persons examining large numbers of grants/applications. The user can quickly look at the independent claims to ascertain if the claims are relevant to the technology being examined. Dependent claims normally only further delimit independent claims. Therefore, usually if an invention falls outside of the scope of an independent claim, there is no need to further examine the dependent claims. For grants/applications where the claims are close to describing the examined invention, these claims should be examined in details.
The independent claims can also be compared to other grants/applications by opening two or more grants/applications in the Patent Matrix. Shown in
The utility of the Patent Matrix software increases as the number of claims increases. For example, U.S. patent application No. 20030089899 was imported using the Patent Matrix software. Shown in
Expanding the claims to view dependent claims—For grants and/or applications where the independent claims are close to describing the examined invention and may cover the invention, the claims should be examined in detail, including the dependent claims. Independent claim #1 from the U.S. application No. 20020068013 has been completely expanded, as shown in
Other fields—In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the Patent Matrix software also imports other important fields from a grant/application. In addition to the abstract, as shown in
Thus, the present invention provides a system for displaying patent claims, the system including: at least one input device in communication with a computer and at least one output device, wherein at least one user is capable of inputting information via the at least one input device to the at least one computer and viewing information on the at least one output device, and wherein the at least one computer is capable of storing, modifying, outputting, and retrieving information in communication with the at least one input device and at least one output device; and software installed and capable of running on the at least one computer for automatically importing patent claims based upon the user inputted information, parsing the patent claims hierarchically, generating a hierarchical claims diagram, and outputting a viewable diagram of the parsed claims; wherein the claims diagram shows at least part of a patent claims series in an interactive format that permits expansion and compression of the at least part of a patent claims series according to the hierarch of the at least part of a patent claims series.
Furthermore, the present invention system provides for at least part of a claim series to include an independent claim, sub-element(s) of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof. The system, GUI, and methods are operable to permit the claims to be displayed in compressed or expanded views or states. The interactive GUI permits the user to click select which of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof to compress or expand, and the reverse, with the default state showing the compressed view initially in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The imported claims include an entire claims series, an entire patent's claims, multiple patents' claims, and/or at least part of a patent claims series from more than one patent. Further subcomponent parsing is optionally provided for the user.
In the system, the computer is a single computer, a server, or a computer network. The at least one input device communicates with the computer directly, remotely, wirelessly, via the Internet, and combinations, depending upon the system. The at least one output devices is an electronic output device with graphic user interface.
The present invention further provides for a method for displaying patent claims, the method steps comprising:
As in the foregoing system, the method provides for steps operable to provide for at least part of a claim series to include an independent claim, sub-element(s) of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof. The system, GUI, and methods are operable to permit the claims to be displayed in compressed or expanded views or states. The interactive GUI permits the user to click select which of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof to compress or expand, and the reverse, with the default state showing the compressed view initially in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The present invention further provides for an interactive user interface for providing a diagram of patent claims, the diagram including: an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) viewable on an electronic display, the GUI including a diagram of at least part of a patent claims series; wherein the claims are parsed hierarchically, and the claims are compressible hierarchically.
Furthermore, the GUI of the present invention system provides for at least part of a claim series to include an independent claim, sub-element(s) of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof. The system, GUI, and methods are operable to permit the claims to be displayed in compressed or expanded views or states. The interactive GUI permits the user to click select which of the independent claim, at least one dependent claim, sub-element(s) of the dependent claim(s), and combinations thereof to compress or expand, and the reverse, with the default state showing the compressed view initially in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The present invention further provides for a patent quality metric score shown on the Patent Matrix Diagram, wherein the patent quality metric represents a quality scale based on a multiplicity of factors, including, but not limited to, the length of the description, the scope of the claims, and the number of drawings.
The present invention further provides for real-time, automated analysis of claims to assist in determining infringement by competitors in real-time or near-real-time. An interface provides a patent claims diagram as previously described with additional content of potential patent claims infringers shown diagrammatically connected to the claims elements and sub-elements.
The present invention analyzes the elements or sub-elements and then searches in real-time for matching technology content. Once content is located, a semantics engine analyzes in real-time the meaning of the content to determine if it qualifies as matching technology content. Once it is determined to be matching technology content, the semantics engine determines in real-time if the purpose of the content meets the requirements of the study. By way of example and not limitation, the semantics engine would analyze the content and its context to determine if the content was an offer to sell, which would qualify as matching technology content, or a technology review article, which would not qualify.
Selecting a matching technology content thumbnail image brings the content to the foreground and expands it to fill the interface, to fill a predetermined pane in the interface, or to a predetermined size (
A method according to the present invention (
Note that the same content can satisfy the criteria for more than one sub-element, and therefore be linked to multiple sub-elements. In these cases, the system links a sub-element to the location in the document that is most relevant, based on semantic analysis of the sub-element.
The present invention is necessarily rooted in computer technology in order to overcome a problem specifically arising in the realm of computer networks. More specifically, the present invention electronically searches and parses, in real-time, millions of websites, documents, images and videos from around the planet to find the ones that are relevant. This immense amount of content, which cannot be parsed in real-time or near-real-time by humans, was not available prior to the advent of the Internet. Prior to the Internet, litigators would have to deal with hundreds or maybe thousands of documents per case, which required a large amount of time. Now, with the availability of millions of articles of content, there are not enough persons trained in litigation to review all the content in real-time or near-real-time. Thus, this is a problem created by the Internet that is addressed by the systems and methods of the present invention.
Additionally, the majority of these documents are only offered electronically and only through the Internet. Thus, it is not possible for users to search these documents except by using computer and electronic networking technology, including GUIs.
The GUIs described in the present invention are also a product of computer technology and Internet connectivity, and as such were unavailable before the Internet. Specifically, the sector interactive and dynamic visualization diagram provides for automatic expansion and collapse of data point within the sector according to a timeline or date range, as illustrated in the figures, in particular in
Additionally, the present method differs from prior art manual methods. Specifically, the present method first searches for technology keywords, and then determines if the document is relevant to the purpose of the study. In prior art manual methods, the searcher would first determine if a document was relevant to the purpose of the study, and then determine if the technology content in the document was relevant.
Furthermore, the high-throughput, real-time screening necessitated by the enormous number of documents along with the constraints of computer displays requires technological features that did not exist before the Internet. Specifically, the need to review multiple electronic documents in real-time within a fixed display requires an interactive method that can switch rapidly between documents. The dynamic, interactive and electronically linked GUIs described in the present invention provide this ability.
The server 850 is constructed, configured and coupled to enable communication over a network 810 with computing devices 820, 830, 840. The server 850 includes a processing unit 851 with an operating system 852. The operating system 852 enables the server 850 to communicate through network 810 with the remote, distributed user devices. Database 870 may house an operating system 872, memory 874, and programs 876.
In one embodiment of the invention, the system 800 includes a cloud-based network 810 for distributed communication via a wireless communication antenna 812 and processing by a plurality of mobile communication computing devices 830. In another embodiment of the invention, the system 800 is a virtualized computing system capable of executing any or all aspects of software and/or application components presented herein on the computing devices 820, 830, 840. In certain aspects, the computer system 800 may be implemented using hardware or a combination of software and hardware, either in a dedicated computing device, or integrated into another entity, or distributed across multiple entities or computing devices.
By way of example, and not limitation, the computing devices 820, 830, 840 are intended to represent various forms of digital computers 820, 840, 850 and mobile devices 830, such as a server, blade server, mainframe, mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a desktop computer, a netbook computer, a tablet computer, a workstation, a laptop, and other similar computing devices. The components shown here, their connections and relationships, and their functions, are meant to be exemplary only, and are not meant to limit implementations of the invention described and/or claimed in this document
In one embodiment, the computing device 820 includes components such as a processor 860, a system memory 862 having a random access memory (RAM) 864 and a read-only memory (ROM) 866, and a system bus 868 that couples the memory 862 to the processor 860. In another embodiment, the computing device 830 may additionally include components such as a storage device 890 for storing the operating system 892 and one or more application programs 894, a network interface unit 896, and/or an input/output controller 898. Each of the components may be coupled to each other through at least one bus 868. The input/output controller 898 may receive and process input from, or provide output to, a number of other devices 899, including, but not limited to, alphanumeric input devices, mice, electronic styluses, display units, touch screens, signal generation devices (e.g., speakers) or printers.
By way of example, and not limitation, the processor 860 may be a general-purpose microprocessor (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU)), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a microcontroller, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), a controller, a state machine, gated or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any other suitable entity or combinations thereof that can perform calculations, process instructions for execution, and/or other manipulations of information.
In another implementation, shown as 840 in
Also, multiple computing devices may be connected, with each device providing portions of the necessary operations (e.g., a server bank, a group of blade servers, or a multi-processor system). Alternatively, some steps or methods may be performed by circuitry that is specific to a given function.
According to various embodiments, the computer system 800 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to local and/or remote computing devices 820, 830, 840, 850 through a network 810. A computing device 830 may connect to a network 810 through a network interface unit 896 connected to the bus 868. Computing devices may communicate communication media through wired networks, direct-wired connections or wirelessly such as acoustic, RF or infrared through an antenna 897 in communication with the network antenna 812 and the network interface unit 896, which may include digital signal processing circuitry when necessary. The network interface unit 896 may provide for communications under various modes or protocols.
In one or more exemplary aspects, the instructions may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combinations thereof. A computer readable medium may provide volatile or non-volatile storage for one or more sets of instructions, such as operating systems, data structures, program modules, applications or other data embodying any one or more of the methodologies or functions described herein. The computer readable medium may include the memory 862, the processor 860, and/or the storage media 890 and may be a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed computer system) that store the one or more sets of instructions 900. Non-transitory computer readable media includes all computer readable media, with the sole exception being a transitory, propagating signal per se. The instructions 900 may further be transmitted or received over the network 810 via the network interface unit 896 as communication media, which may include a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics changed or set in a manner as to encode information in the signal.
Storage devices 890 and memory 862 include, but are not limited to, volatile and non-volatile media such as cache, RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH memory or other solid state memory technology, disks or discs (e.g., digital versatile disks (DVD), HD-DVD, BLU-RAY, compact disc (CD), CD-ROM, floppy disc) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to store the computer readable instructions and which can be accessed by the computer system 800.
It is also contemplated that the computer system 800 may not include all of the components shown in
The display provides for expanding and contracting time scales comprising a dynamic timeline. As shown in
In one embodiment, the outer perimeter of the circular diagram of the display includes one or more color-coded sections corresponding to one or more categories within the technological sector associated with the display, each with a corresponding display label. In one embodiment, the inner perimeter of the circular diagram of the display includes one or more color-coded sections corresponding to one or more sub-categories within the technological sector associated with the display, each with a corresponding display label.
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The display provides for a roll-over pop-up of information, such as document number, patent owner, title, abstract and the like.
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The display allows users to select a specific category within the technological sector associated with the display, as shown in
When a category is selected, the circular diagram changes such that the top perimeter of the radial plot includes one or more color-coded sections corresponding to one or more subcategories of the selected category, each with a corresponding display label. The updated radial plot only includes documents provided with a label associated with the selected category. In one embodiment, the display includes at least one plot illustrating the number of documents in each of the one or more subcategories. In one embodiment, the at least one plot includes at least one horizontal bar chart, at least one vertical bar chart, at least one pie chart, and/or at least one other type of chart indicating the relative number of documents in each subcategory.
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Certain modifications and improvements will occur to those skilled in the art upon a reading of the foregoing description. By way of example, the diagrams are preferably operable to provide for user annotation. Also, it is preferred that the diagrams are representable in a multiplicity of formats, depending upon user preference, such as .html. Also, electronic representations of the diagrams are electronically linked to the underlying documents from which the patent numbers were identified, for providing quick analysis or comparison between them. All modifications and improvements have been deleted herein for the sake of conciseness and readability but are properly within the scope of the following claims.
The present application is related to and claims priority from the following U.S. patent documents: this application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 18/650,963, filed Apr. 30, 2024, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/226,791, filed Apr. 9, 2021, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/242,220, filed Jan. 8, 2019, which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/614,737, filed Jan. 8, 2018, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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