System and method of goal-oriented searching

• US 20080243786A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innography (Clarivate Plc)
• Original Assignee: Innography (Clarivate Plc)
• Inventors: Stading, Tyron Jerrod
• Granted Patent: US 9,069,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/11 Patent retrieval

Abstract

In a particular embodiment, a method of goal-oriented searching is disclosed that includes providing a graphical user interface including an input and a selectable indicator. The selectable indicator is related to a pre-defined query associated with a particular goal. The particular goal includes multiple criteria. The method also includes receiving data related to the input and inserting the data into the pre-defined query to produce a goal-oriented query to identify one or more documents that satisfy the multiple criteria.

Claims

1. A method of goal-oriented searching, the method comprising:

providing a graphical user interface including an input and a selectable indicator, the selectable indicator related to a pre-defined query associated with a particular goal, the particular goal comprising multiple criteria;

receiving data related to the input; and

inserting the data into the pre-defined query to produce a goal-oriented query to identify one or more documents that satisfy the multiple criteria.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving a first document related to the data; and

performing link analysis on one or more links contained within the first document to extract additional information related to the pre-defined query.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first document comprises semi-structured data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving a first document related to the data;

extracting data from the first document; and

performing multiple queries based on the extracted data to identify the one or more documents.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises a competitive analysis search to identify data related to competitors of a particular entity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises an asset licensing search to identify data related to potential licensees of the asset.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises a patent invalidity search.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises an asset identifying search to identify a potentially valuable asset from a plurality of assets.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a first document related to the data, wherein the multiple criteria comprises a date criteria automatically determined from the first document.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple criteria comprise an industry classification.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple criteria comprise an organization identifier.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple criteria comprise a location identifier.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple criteria comprise a range of annual revenues associated with an organization.

14. A system to perform a goal-oriented search, the system comprising:

a server system comprising;

processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to;

provide a graphical user interface including a text input and a selectable indicator to a destination device, the selectable indicator related to a pre-defined query associated with a particular goal, the particular goal comprising multiple criteria;

receive data from the destination device; and

insert the data into the pre-defined query to produce a goal-oriented query constructed to identify one or more documents that satisfy the multiple criteria.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to generate instructions executable at a destination device to render a second graphical user interface including data related to search results from the goal-oriented query.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to send data related to the goal-oriented query to one or more data sources and to generate a visualization of search results from the goal-oriented query.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to generate selectable navigation elements related to search results from the goal-oriented query.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to reverse engineer a query from the one or more identified documents.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to reverse engineer a query from documents associated with a company that is related to the received data.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the memory further comprises instructions executable by the processing logic to query multiple data sources using the goal-oriented query.

21. The system of claim 14, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises a one-click asset licensing search to identify one or more potential licensees of an identified licensable asset.

22. The system of claim 14, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises a competitive analysis search to identify data related to competitors of a particular entity.

23. The system of claim 14, wherein the goal-oriented query comprises an asset identifying search to identify a potentially valuable asset from a plurality of assets.

24. A method of goal-oriented searching, the method comprising:

receiving an input and an identifier related to a pre-defined goal, the pre-defined goal comprising multiple criteria; and

inserting the data into a pre-defined query to produce a goal-oriented query constructed to identify one or more documents that satisfy the multiple criteria.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

retrieving a first document related to the data; and

performing link analysis on one or more links contained within the first document to extract additional information related to the pre-defined query.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising generating a competitive analysis report to identify data related to competitors of a particular entity based on search results from the pre-defined query.

27. The method of claim 24, further comprising generating a licensee report to identify data related to potential licensees of an asset based on search results from the pre-defined query.

28. The method of claim 24, further comprising generating a patent invalidity report to identify data related to documents that may invalidate a particular patent based on search results from the pre-defined query.

29. The method of claim 24, further comprising generating an asset report to identify data related to a potentially valuable asset from a plurality of assets based on search results from the pre-defined query.