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Black Box Innovation, Systems and Methods

  • US 20120226650A1
  • Filed: 03/05/2012
  • Published: 09/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An innovation expert system comprising:

  • A patent database storing one or more patent concept map objects representing a concept map associated with patent literature; and

    A reasoning engine configured to;

    derive correlations between the concept map objects and patent technology classes associated with the plurality of patents;

    infer a quantified hypothesis representing a suggestion that at least one of concept map objects could relate to a technology class according to a confidence level as a function of similar concept maps objects and where the at least one concept map object relatively lacks a derived correlation with the technology class; and

    present the hypothesis as a recommended avenue of innovation.

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