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Interactive patent map

  • US 9,715,499 B2
  • Filed: 11/13/2012
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data processing system configured to facilitate analysis of patent documents relevant to one or more technologies of interest, the patent documents including patents and patent applications, the system comprising:

  • at least one processor; and

    at least one memory with computer code instructions stored thereon, the at least one processor and the at least one memory, with the computer code instructions, configured to cause the data processing system to implement;

    a search handler configured to receive a selected configuration for an interactive patent map, the selected interactive patent map configuration providing an arrangement of representative patent documents for the interactive patent map based on;

    (i) dates of interest from representative patent documents, the dates of interest including dates associated with respective ones of the representative patent documents;

    (ii) a first technological branch that reflects a first desired technological category of interest disclosed in representative patent documents,(iii) a second technological branch that reflects a second desired technological category of interest disclosed in representative patent documents, the representative patent documents from the first and second desired technological categories of interest being determined using a computerized content analysis derived from key features disclosed in a claims section of at least one of the respective representative patent documents;

    (iv) assignee of the representative patent documents responsive to the first and second technological branches, and(v) a distribution of visual indicators along a first axis and a second axis of the interactive patent map, the visual indicators being distributed based on technological features associated with the respective representative patent documents, such that the visual indicators representing at least a portion of the representative patent documents on the interactive map along the first axis of the interactive map based on at least one respective technological feature of the representative patent document, and along a second axis of the interactive map based on a respective date of interest of the representative patent documents;

    an engine, in communication with the handler, configured to process, using a database of results, the selected interactive patent map configuration to provide a responsive interactive patent map, such that the representative patent documents responsive to the technological branches are arranged on the resulting interactive patent map according to assignee;

    wherein the representative patent documents responsive to the technological branches are arranged on the resulting interactive patent map according to assignee, such that an assignee'"'"'s patent documents are clustered on the resulting interactive patent map based on a technological category associated with the representative patent documents; and

    wherein in response to a user hovering a mouse over a representative patent document visual indicator represented on the map, displaying bibliographic information about the respective representative patent document.

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