PATENT ANALYSIS APPLICATIONS AND CORRESPONDING USER INTERFACE FEATURES

• US 20190325214A1
• Filed: 04/19/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael J. Schuster
• Original Assignee: Michael J. Schuster
• Inventors: Schuster, Michael J.
• Granted Patent: US 11,275,935 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/10 Constructive solid geometry [CSG] using solid primitives, e.g. cylinders, cubes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/153 using recognition of characters or words
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/40 Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/422 Technical drawings; Geographical maps

Abstract

Disclosed are 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.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device comprising at least one hardware processor; and

program instructions executable in the at least one computing device that, when executed, direct the at least one computing device to;

parse an electronic version of a patent document comprising at least (a) a detailed description, (b) a claims section, and (c) at least one drawing by;

obtaining a list of claim terms used in the claims section;

identifying instances of the claim terms used in the detailed description;

identifying at least one reference numeral corresponding to the claim terms from the detailed description; and

identifying portions of the at least one drawing that comprises the at least one reference numeral;

generate at least one user interface that comprises a textual reproduction of at least a portion of the claims section;

identify a user interaction with a claim term in the portion of the claims section in the at least one user interface;

in response to the user interaction with the claim term, cause a dialog to be presented proximate to the claim term, wherein the dialog comprises at least;

a portion of the detailed description that includes the claim term;

or

the at least one drawing that comprises the at least one reference numeral corresponding to the claim term.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic version of the patent document is parsed further by applying an optical character recognition (OCR) to the patent document.

3. The system of claim 1, further program instructions executable in the at least one computing device that, when executed, direct the at least one computing device to generate a three-dimensional model of an object corresponding to the claim term using the at least one drawing, wherein the at least one drawing comprises a two-dimensional black-and-white line drawing.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the three-dimensional model is shown in the dialog of the at least one user interface or used as an augmented feature in an augmented reality (AR) session.

5. The system of claim 1, further program instructions executable in the at least one computing device that, when executed, direct the at least one computing device to, in response to the user interaction with the claim term, apply a color to a portion of the at least one drawing that corresponds to the claim term.

6. The system of claim 1, further program instructions executable in the at least one computing device that, when executed, direct the at least one computing device to, in response to the user interaction with the claim term, apply a color to the instances of the claim term in the detailed description.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the user interaction comprises:

a hover-over event being performed in association with the claim term or a selection event being performed in association with the claim term.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

parsing, by at least one computing device comprising at least one hardware processor, an electronic version of a patent document comprising at least (a) a detailed description, (b) a claims section, and (c) at least one drawing by;

obtaining a list of claim terms used in the claims section;

identifying instances of the claim terms used in the detailed description;

identifying at least one reference numeral corresponding to the claim terms from the detailed description; and

identifying portions of the at least one drawing that comprises the at least one reference numeral;

generating, by the at least one computing device, at least one user interface that comprises a textual reproduction of at least a portion of the claims section;

identifying, by the at least one computing device, a user interaction with a claim term in the portion of the claims section in the at least one user interface;

in response to the user interaction with the claim term, causing, by the at least one computing device, a dialog to be presented proximate to the claim term, wherein the dialog comprises at least;

a portion of the detailed description that includes the claim term;

or

the at least one drawing that comprises the at least one reference numeral corresponding to the claim term.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the electronic version of the patent document is parsed further by applying, by the at least one computing device, an optical character recognition (OCR) to the patent document.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising generating, by the at least one computing device, a three-dimensional model of an object corresponding to the claim term using the at least one drawing, wherein the at least one drawing comprises a two-dimensional black-and-white line drawing.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the three-dimensional model is shown in the dialog of the at least one user interface or used as an augmented feature in an augmented reality (AR) session.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising applying, by the at least one computing device to, in response to the user interaction with the claim term, a color to a portion of the at least one drawing that corresponds to the claim term.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising applying, by the at least one computing device, in response to the user interaction with the claim term, a color to the instances of the claim term in the detailed description.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the user interaction comprises:

a hover-over event being performed in association with the claim term or a selection event being performed in association with the claim term.