Relational database system containing a multidimensional hierachical model of interrelated subject categories with recognition capabilities
First Claim
1. A computer readable medium comprising a database system, including stored data of scientific or technical documents, such as patents, technical or scientific publications, abstracts of these patents or publications, and associated bibliographic and technical classification data, or combinations thereof such that said scientific and technical documents are assigned to one or more scientific or technical categories (category assignments) within a multidimensional hierarchical model of a business, scientific or technical entity or specialty, and said category assignments are stored in a relational database wherein said category assignments are used to identify one or more patterns, trends and/or discontinuities based on a population analysis of the categories.
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Abstract
The present invention is a database and a method of producing that database which can be used to determine the meaning of scientific or technical documents, such as patents and/or technical or scientific publications and/or abstracts of these patents or publications, and to assign the technical documents to one or more scientific or technical categories within a multidimensional hierarchical model which reflects the business, scientific or technical interests of a business, scientific or technical entity or specialty.
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- 1. A computer readable medium comprising a database system, including stored data of scientific or technical documents, such as patents, technical or scientific publications, abstracts of these patents or publications, and associated bibliographic and technical classification data, or combinations thereof such that said scientific and technical documents are assigned to one or more scientific or technical categories (category assignments) within a multidimensional hierarchical model of a business, scientific or technical entity or specialty, and said category assignments are stored in a relational database wherein said category assignments are used to identify one or more patterns, trends and/or discontinuities based on a population analysis of the categories.
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8. A method of creating a database for a collection of scientific or technical documents, such as patents and/or technical or scientific publications and/or abstracts of these patents or publications, by:
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(a) creating a hierarchical model of subjects of potential interest (b) creating an expert technical search (ETS) for each subject-category), within the hierarchical model (c) automatically applying the set of ETS'"'"'s against a set of electronically stored patents, patent abstracts, patent identifiers, technical index tenths, technical documents, and/or abstracts of these documents (d) using the results of the search strategies to electronically assign each patent or technical document to one or more subject-categories within the hierarchical model (e) Storing the set of subject-categories and unique patent identifiers or unique document identifiers in an electronic database table. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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