Intellectual property asset manager (IPAM) for context processing of data objects
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method of enabling review of patents in a group of patents, comprising:
- generating a group of patents comprising a plurality of electronic patent documents;
displaying a list of patents in said group of patents;
searching a local database to determine whether requested information for a patent from the list of patents is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent;
previewing a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally;
requesting the requested information from the another database in response to the previewing;
displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent;
in response to a received command to view a next patent from the list of patents, retrieving and displaying at least image data representative of at least a portion of the next patent;
in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to a selected patent in the group, linking patents and patent related documents that;
are cited by the selected patent; and
/orcite the selected patent;
in response to a received command, creating a new temporary group as a subset of the plurality of electronic patent documents; and
in response to a received command, converting the new temporary group to a permanent group.
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Abstract
Context data processing is described herein. One or more contexts are selected. Each context includes one or more attributes, and a plurality of data objects that satisfy the attributes. A list of data objects contained in the selected contexts is displayed. At least some of the data objects in the selected contexts are processed. Such processing may involve generating claim trees, citation trees, and data object families, which may be displayed using hyperbolic trees. In an embodiment, the contexts are groups. In other embodiment, the contexts are each associated with a data object type. In this latter embodiment, the contexts include data objects of their respective data object types.
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47 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method of enabling review of patents in a group of patents, comprising:
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generating a group of patents comprising a plurality of electronic patent documents; displaying a list of patents in said group of patents; searching a local database to determine whether requested information for a patent from the list of patents is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; previewing a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; requesting the requested information from the another database in response to the previewing; displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; in response to a received command to view a next patent from the list of patents, retrieving and displaying at least image data representative of at least a portion of the next patent; in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to a selected patent in the group, linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected patent; and
/orcite the selected patent; in response to a received command, creating a new temporary group as a subset of the plurality of electronic patent documents; and in response to a received command, converting the new temporary group to a permanent group. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of enabling review of patent-related data objects comprising:
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aggregating a set of patent-related data objects; displaying a list of patent-related data objects in the aggregated set; searching a local database to determine whether requested information for a patent-related data object from the list is locally available, the requested information comprising at least image data representing at least a portion of a patent-related data object; previewing a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; requesting the requested information from the another database in response to the previewing; displaying image data representing at least a portion of the patent-related data object from the aggregated set; in response to commands received from a set of navigation tools, providing access to respective patent-related data objects within the aggregated set; in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to a selected patent-related data object from the aggregated set, linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected patent-related data object; and
/orcite the selected patent-related data object; in response to commands received from a set of classification tools, creating new temporary groups from subsets of the aggregated set; and in response to a command, converting one or more of the new temporary groups to a permanent group. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system for enabling review of patent-related data objects comprising:
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a memory configured to store; a set of aggregated patent-related data objects; a search module configured to search a local database to determine whether requested information for a patent-related data object in a list of data objects in the aggregated set is locally available; a display module configured to present the list of data objects, preview a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally, and request the requested information from the another database in response to the preview, the display module displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent-related data object; a navigation tool module comprising a set of navigation tools to provide user access to respective patent-related data objects within the aggregated set; a linking module configured, in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to a selected patent-related data object from the aggregated set, to link patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected patent-related data object; and
/orcite the selected patent-related data object; a group creation module configured, in response to commands received from a set of classification tools, to create new temporary groups from subsets of the aggregated set; and a conversion module configured, in response to a command, to convert one or more of the new temporary groups to a permanent group; and a processor configured to process the modules. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33)
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34. A method of context data processing, comprising:
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accessing databases of patents and patent bibliographic information; accessing one or more contexts, each of the one or more contexts comprising any number of patents represented in the databases; searching a local database from among the databases to determine whether requested information for a patent from the number of patents is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; previewing a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; requesting the requested information from the another database in response to the preview; displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; automatically performing patent centric and context oriented processing of at least some of the patents in at least one of the one or more contexts, wherein the patent centric processing comprises performing a patent citation function with respect to one or more selected patents from the databases of patents by linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the one or more selected patents; and
/orcite the one or more selected patents; in response to a command, creating a new temporary group as a subset of the one or more contexts; and in response to a command, converting the new temporary group to a permanent group. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
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38. A system for processing data, comprising:
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an intellectual property asset manager (IPAM); a plug-in manager coupled to the IPAM; at least one plug-in coupled to the plug-in manager; a module operable to access, using the IPAM, a local database of electronic patent documents; a module operable to search the local database to determine whether requested information for a patent from the local database is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; a module operable to preview a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; a module operable to request the requested information from the other database in response to the preview; a module operable to display the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; a module operable to perform, using the IPAM, in response to a received command, a patent citation function with respect to a selected electronic patent document from the local database of electronic patent documents by linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected electronic patent document; and
/or cite the selected electronic patent document;a module operable to create, in response to a received command, a new temporary group comprising one or more electronic patent documents represented in the database; and a module operable to convert, in response to a received command, the new temporary group to a permanent group; and a processor configured to process the modules. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method of processing data, comprising:
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accessing at least one local database of information representative of patents and patent-related documents; accessing one or more groups, each of the one or more groups comprising any number of the documents represented in the at least one local database; searching the at least one local database to determine whether requested information for a document from the documents is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the document; previewing the requested information when the requested information is not locally available; requesting the requested information from another database in response to the previewing; displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the document; automatically processing at least one of the documents in at least one of the one or more groups, wherein the automatic processing comprises performing a patent citation function with respect to a selected document from one or more groups by linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected document; and
/orcite the selected document; automatically creating a new temporary group during processing of a command; and in response to a received command, converting the new temporary group to a permanent group. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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46. A method of maintaining groups to facilitate in processing and presenting data, comprising:
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maintaining a group of a permanent type, wherein the permanent type is user defined, wherein the group of permanent type is comprised of any number of patents and patent-related documents from at least one local database; searching the at least one local database to determine whether requested information for a patent from the at least one local database is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; previewing a subset of the requested information in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; requesting the requested information from another database in response to the previewing; displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to one or more selected patents from the at least one local database, linking patents and patent related documents that; are cited by the selected one or more patents; and
/orcite the selected one or more patents; generating a group of a temporary type during processing of a command by automatically processing one or more of the documents in the group of permanent type in conjunction with information from at least one second database; and allowing a user to convert the group of temporary type to a group of permanent type. - View Dependent Claims (47)
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