Advanced Text to Speech Patent Search Engine
First Claim
1. A patent and non-patent literature search system comprising:
- a user friendly interface that allows a user to input a plurality of search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) in a plurality of search input interfaces, wherein the user can assign priorities/ranks to the search terms/features before the execution of the search.
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Abstract
An efficient and stress relieving patent, and non-patent literature database search system has been provided. The system allows for the processing of dynamic and focused search strategies. The user can input a plurality of search features into the GUI of the system and can assign their priority. One of them can be classified as focused/high priority search feature over others. The system also allows for inputting plurality of keywords into the GUI to help ranking of the result. In a preferred embodiment, keywords, or portions or complete sentences or paragraphs can be listened by utilizing text to speech conversion technology. This allows users to go through a long list of patents/publications without requiring to read them. The user can listen the text to speech converted keywords or portions of references in a relaxing and way by utilizing a headset. This provides a fast and very efficient way of studying references with little or no stress. User can select various soothing sounds to be played briefly before switching into another reference. Various keyboard key operations are used to switch between the key features of the search and references.
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1. A patent and non-patent literature search system comprising:
a user friendly interface that allows a user to input a plurality of search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) in a plurality of search input interfaces, wherein the user can assign priorities/ranks to the search terms/features before the execution of the search. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 13)
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5. A text to speech conversion patent and non-patent literature search system comprising:
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a user friendly interface that allows a user to input a plurality of search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) in a plurality of search input interfaces, wherein the user can assign priorities/ranks to the search terms/features before the execution of the search. a text to speech conversion system, wherein the text to speech conversion system transforms the user keywords or combination of keywords or a portion of a sentence containing the keywords or a complete sentence(s) containing the keywords or an abstract or a title or a claim(s) or a paragraph(s) of the patent or a patent application or a literature into speech or voice. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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14. A patent and non-patent literature search system comprising:
a user friendly interface that allows a user to input a plurality of search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) in a plurality of search input interfaces, wherein the user can assign priorities/ranks to the search terms/features before the execution of the search, wherein the priorities/ranks to the search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) can be assigned by the user by inputting a priority number in a priority input interface adjacent to the search input interface, wherein the user friendly interface includes selectively highlighting interfaces that allow a user to selectively highlight the search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) by selecting one or more of the selectively highlighting interfaces, wherein the user friendly interface includes selectively coloring interfaces that allow a user to selectively highlight his search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) by the color of his choice by selecting one or more of the selectively coloring interfaces, wherein the user friendly interfaces includes a semantic rank interface that allows a user to input a number of keywords to enhance the semantics and the ranking of the references.
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