Patent Application
20180239814
The present invention relates to a searching keyword suggesting device, and more particularly relates to a searching keyword suggesting device which provides a suggested searching keyword based on informational relationship by applying a structural attribute of patent claim.
A correct patent searching result depends on a correct searching keyword. Based on the fact that the claims are a core of patent, a claim searching performed in a more precise way can bring a patent searching result more trustable. Therefore a searching to claims is considered an effective way to improve a patent searching. However, in the patent searching systems of prior arts, a claim is searched in a whole where a user can only decide keywords of specification or keywords of claims in such a manner that a searching to claims cannot be extended to the detailed structure of the claims. In other words, the prior arts are unable to further search the detailed structure, and thus cause a searching result less precise. The detail structure comprises: (a) an element definition such as a subject matter, a primary element and a secondary element; and (b) a description definition such as an interrelationship definition and a supplemental definition. That is, in the patent searching of prior arts, even though a searching keyword is used to perform a searching to claims, the importance degree of the searching keyword to the claims are not ensured, because it is not confirmed that the keyword is related to a subject matter, a primary element, a secondary element, an interrelationship definition or a supplemental definition. In prior arts, only the appearing positions of the searching keywords are shown in the claims such that a user has to study the importance degree of the searching keyword depending on her/his own experience and knowledge. Until now, the reasons that the detailed structure cannot be further classified by the prior arts are caused by the requirement of complicated operating logic to handle such enormous amount of patent data.
In addition, in the patent searching systems of a prior art, a searching keyword suggesting mechanism is not only rarely seen, but also unscientific for its searching keyword suggesting method. The searching keyword suggesting methods of prior arts are performed by establishing synonym relationships among tremendous words. However, this kind of searching keyword suggesting method is inevitable of requiring building an enormous amount of less used words. Accordingly, the searching keyword suggesting methods of prior arts are with low efficiency and low popularity.
Therefore, an objective of the present invention is to provide a searching keyword suggesting device to be the solution for the technical problem mentioned above.
In order to achieve the above, the present invention provides a searching keyword suggesting device that, in a patent searching, uses a searching keyword to provide a suggested keyword with informational relationship to the searching keyword, the searching keyword suggesting method comprising: a searching keyword executing module that performs, based on the searching keyword, a claim searching operation and/or a description searching operation and/or a bibliographic data searching operation for data in a patent database to obtain a patent searching result including a plurality of searched result patents, each searched result patent including at least one element definition and at least one description definition, each element definition and each description definition being informationally related to one structural attribute which is one selected from a subject matter attribute, an element noun attribute, an interrelationship definition attribute and a supplemental definition section attribute; a definition statistics executing module that obtains a deduced element definition and a deduced description definition by performing statistics calculation, for the searched result patents, of the element definitions and the description definitions that are informationally belonged to respective structural attributes; and a suggested keyword providing module that provides the suggested keyword by retrieving a word from the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition that are informationally belonged to respective structural attribute.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition obtained by the definition statistics executing module are definitions different from the searching keyword but with the same informationally related structural attribute to which the searching keyword are designated in the claim searching operation of the patent database performed by the searching keyword executing module, the informationally related structural attribute is one selected from an informationally related subject matter attribute and/or an informationally related element noun attribute and/or an informationally related interrelationship definition attribute and/or an informationally related supplemental definition section attribute and/or an informationally related description attribute and an informationally related abstract attribute and/or a bibliographic data attribute.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the searching keyword is searched in way of equivalent comparison and/or in way of partial comparison to the element definition and the description definition having the informationally related structural attribute designated in the claim searching operation and/or the description searching operation and/or the bibliographic data searching operation.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the searching keyword is searched in way of equivalent comparison and/or in way of partial comparison to the element definition and the description definition having the informationally related structural attribute designated in the claim searching operation and/or the description searching operation and/or the bibliographic data searching operation.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the definition statistics executing module further includes an original part-of-speech format reverting sub-module that reverts, for the searched result patents of the patent searching result, the part-of-speech format of the element definition and the description definition of the structural attributes to an original part-of-speech format, and performs statistics calculation of the element definition and the description definition based on the original part of speech format.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the definition statistics executing module further includes an original part-of-speech format reverting sub-module that reverts, for the searched result patents of the patent searching result, the part-of-speech format of the element definition and the description definition of the structural attributes to an original part-of-speech format, and performs statistics calculation of the element definition and the description definition based on the original part of speech format.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the definition statistics executing module counts the occurrence times of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attribute, sorts a sequence of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attribute according to the occurrence times to obtain a sorting result, and enables the suggested keyword providing module to provide the suggested keyword from the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of the structural attributes according to the sorting result of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attributes.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that definition statistics executing module counts the occurrence times of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attribute, sorts a sequence of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attribute according to the occurrence times to obtain a sorting result, and enables the suggested keyword providing module to provide the suggested keyword from the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of the structural attributes according to the sorting result of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition of structural attributes.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the suggested keyword providing module is further followed by a suggested keyword choosing module that provides a keyword choosing interface on which a user chooses the suggested keyword provided by the suggested keyword providing module.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that the suggested keyword providing module is further followed by a suggested keyword choosing module that provides a keyword choosing interface on which a user chooses the suggested keyword provided by the suggested keyword providing module.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that after the suggested keyword provided by the suggested keyword providing module is chosen, a patent amount and/or a patent amount variation of the plurality of searched result patents is shown
In one embodiment of the present invention, a searching keyword suggesting device is provided that after the suggested keyword provided by the suggested keyword providing module is chosen, a patent amount and/or a patent amount variation of the plurality of searched result patents is shown
The searching keyword suggesting device of the present invention uses the structural attribute of the claims as the informational relation basis for operations of data deduction or data induction. The searching keyword suggesting device of the present invention uses a searching keyword/searching keywords to perform a patent claim searching process in the patent database to obtain the element definitions and/or description definitions in the searched patent having the searching keyword in the designated structural attribute, thereafter performing statistics and sorting the acquired element definitions and/or description definitions as the suggested keywords. By means of the searching keyword suggesting device of the present invention, the keywords being informationally related to the searching keyword is with advantage of getting close to real patent practicing. Therefore the present invention is more scientific and logical compared to the synonym method of the prior arts. Thus the searching accuracy will be consequently improved and the searching result amount can be greatly decreased because of a correct operation in data induction. Besides, the operation of deduction of the present invention is more scientific.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are explained below with reference to appended drawings.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to
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Before the description in detail for each of the modules of the present invention, the definition of the term “structural attribute” of the present invention is firstly given. The structural attribute defined in the present invention comprises, but not limited to, a subject matter attribute, an element noun attribute, an interrelationship definition attribute, a supplemental definition section attribute, a description attribute, an abstract attribute and a bibliographic data attribute.
The bibliographic data attribute can be further classified into a technical classification number attribute (for example, IPC, UPC etc.), a patent assignee attribute and an inventor attribute etc. such that the bibliographic data keyword input field L7 can be further classified into a technical classification number keyword input field L71, a patent assignee keyword input field L72 and a inventor keyword input field L73. However the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention can arrange all of the technical classification number attribute, the patent assignee attribute and the inventor attribute to one single input data keyword input field L7. Further the structural attribute possessed by the provided searching keyword K can be of any combination of the structural attribute mentioned above, and the number of the input fields to which each of the structural attributes belong is not limited to one but can be a plural.
The follows describe the searching keyword executing module 101 of the searching keyword suggesting device in the present invention.
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One claim of each searched result patents R1, R2, R3 . . . is with at least one element definition or at least one description definition. The below is a claim as an example.
“A mounting bracket for a roof window, comprising: a frame mountable element disposed on an edge of the roof window; a roof mountable element connected with the frame mountable element; and a hinge element securely connected with a base of the roof mountable element, wherein the frame mountable element is a flexible material.”
It is noted that, the text underlined is an element definition, such as “A mounting bracket”, “a roof window”, “a frame mountable element”, “an edge of the roof window”, “a roof mountable element”, “the frame mountable element”, “a hinge element”, and “a base of the roof mountable element”. The text non-underlined in the example is a description definition such as “for”, “comprising”, “disposed on”, “connected with”, and “securely connected with”. The punctuation marks can be considered to be included or not included in the description definition.
Each element definition or each description definition is defined with its structural attribute according to its position in the claim, wherein the structural attribute of element definition is selected from a plurality of structural attributes. For example, since “A mounting bracket” and “a roof window” are in a subject matter position, each one of these element definitions is with a subject matter attribute. For example, since “a frame mountable element”, “an edge of the roof window”, “a roof mountable element”, “the frame mountable element”, “a hinge element”, and “a base of the roof mountable element” are in an element noun position, each one of these element definitions is with an element noun attribute. The element noun attribute, according to where the element noun is positioned, can be further classified into a primary element noun attribute and a secondary element noun attribute. For example, “a frame mountable element”, “a roof mountable element”, and “a hinge element” are element definitions defined with a primary element noun attribute, and “an edge of the roof window” and “a base of the roof mountable element” are element definitions defined with a secondary element noun attribute. And each one of “for”, “comprising”, “disposed on”, “connected with”, and “securely connected with” is with interrelationship definition attribute. And since “wherein” is a supplemental noun, “the frame mountable element” and “is a flexible material” are classified as having supplemental section attribute.
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Then, the definition statistics executing module 102 is performed to obtain a deduced element definition and/or a deduced description definition by performing statistics calculation of the element definitions and the description definitions for every respective structural attribute in all searched result patents R1, R2, R3 . . . of the patent searching result so as to obtain the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition that are informationally belonged to respective structural attributes.
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In the definition statistics executing module 102, taking the
The element definitions obtained in relation to the subject matter attribute are: the “hinge device” in
In all obtained element definitions and description definitions mentioned above, there are some filterable defined words, such as “device”, “unit”, “configure to”, “to”, “with”, “has”, “that”, “the”, “a”, “which”, “is” etc. As a result, a table of filtering defined word can be established to filter these defined words.
Moreover, the definition statistics executing module 102 can not only directly perform statistics counting of the element definition and/or description definition obtained in relation to all structural attributes, but also can include an original part-of-speech format reverting sub-module that reverts, for all searched result patents R1, R2, R3, . . . of the patent searching result R, the part-of-speech format of the element definition and the description definition belonging to each respective structural attribute to an original part-of-speech format such that the statistics counting of the element definition and the description definition are performed based on the original part of speech format.
For example, “mounting” is reverted to an original part-of-speech format “mount”, “connecting” is reverted to “connect”, “disposed” is reverted to “dispose”, “attaching” is reverted to “attach”, “mounts” is reverted to “mount”, “releases” is reverted to “release”, “rotates” is reverted to “rotate”, and “attached” is reverted to “attach”.
After the original part-of-speech format reverting sub-module has been performed, taking
After statistics counting, for all searched result patents R1, R2, R3, . . . of the patent searching result R, the element definitions and the description definitions in relation to each structural attribute, the obtained element definitions and the description definitions in relation to each structural attribute are taken as a deduced element definition and/or a deduced description definition. Therefore the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition in relation to each respective structural attribute are obtained.
It is noted that the definition statistics executing module 102 counts the occurrence times of the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition for each structural attribute, and accordingly sorts a sequence according to the count of occurrence times of the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition for each structural attribute such that a sorting result is obtained.
In another embodiment, the deduced element definition and the deduced description definition obtained by the definition statistics executing module 102 are definitions different from those of the searching keyword but with the same structural attribute to which the searching keyword are designated in the claim searching operation performed by the searching keyword executing module. In other words, when the input of searching keyword is “mounting”, the obtained definition “mounting” or “mounts” in the structural attribute will be deleted.
More specifically, the occurrence times of element definitions and description definitions in each structural attributes are counted, and are sorted in a sequence. For example, it is obtained that the element definitions and description definitions in subject matter attribute are: “hinge” (1 time), “frame” (1 time), and “attach” (1 time). The element definitions and description definitions in element noun attribute are: “mount” (3 times), “base” (1 time), “connect” (1 time), “attach” (2 times), “move” (1 time), “axis” (1 time), and “case” (1 time). The element definitions and description definitions in interrelationship definition attribute are: “dispose” (1 time), “connect” (1 time), “press” (1 time), “attach” (2 times), “mount” (1 time), and “rotate around” (1 time). The element definitions and description definitions in supplemental section element definition are: “mount” (3 times), “base” (1 time), “separate” (1 time), “housing” (1 time), “attach” (1 time), and “mounting case” (1 time). The element definitions and description definitions in supplemental section description definition are: “press” (1 time), “release” (1 time), and “attach” (1 time).
Following the above, the suggested keyword providing module 103 is operated to provide the suggested keyword K′, which is/are the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition for each structural attribute, according to the sequence sorting result of the deduced element definition and/or the deduced description definition for each structural attribute. As shown in
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Furthermore, the suggested keyword providing module 103 further includes a suggested keyword choosing module that provides a keyword choosing interface on which a user chooses the suggested keyword K′ provided by the suggested keyword providing module 103. In front of each displayed suggested keyword K′, there is a suggested keyword check box S for user to choose whether the suggested keyword K′ is to be chosen or not.
After the suggested keywords K′ provided by the suggested keyword providing module are chosen, a patent amount and/or a patent amount variation of the plurality of searched result patents R1, R2, R3 . . . are shown. As shown in
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The searching keyword suggesting device of the present invention can be used to obtain, in a practical use, a suggested keyword with informational relationship to the searching keyword such that as compared to the synonym method of the prior arts, the present invention is more scientific and logical, as a result that the searching accuracy is improved and the searched result amount is decreased because of the correct searching orientation.
In the searching keyword executing module 101, not only can it input “mounting” in the full attribute keyword input field L, but also as shown in
Moreover, in an embodiment, the searching keyword K is searched in way of equivalent comparison to the element definition and the description definition in the designated structural attribute. In other words, when “mounting” is input, the plurality of searched result patents R1, R2, R3, . . . are chosen since these patents exactly contain the word definition of “mounting”. However, the present invention can also apply partial comparison of the searching keyword K such that the partial comparison to the element definition and the description definition in the designated structural attribute can be performed. In other words, when “mounting” is input, the plurality of searched result patents R1, R2, R3, . . . having word definitions such as “mounts” or “mounted” in the structural attributes can be obtained.
In summary, the searching keyword suggesting device of the present invention can be used to obtain, in a practical use, a suggested keyword with an informational relationship to the searching keyword such that as compared to the synonym method of the prior arts, the present invention is more scientific and logical, as a result the searching accuracy is improved and the searched result amount is decreased because of the correct searching orientation.
The above description is only an explanation of the preferred embodiments of the present invention. One having ordinary skill in the art can make various modifications according to the above description and the claims defined below. However, those modifications shall still fall within the scope of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 106105174 | Feb 2017 | TW | national |
