Analytics generation for patent portfolio management

• US 11,461,862 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2014
• Issued: 10/04/2022
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
• Inventors: Lundberg, Steven W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/281,513
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,060 Days
• Field of Search: 705310
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management

Abstract

Systems and methods for patent portfolio management and generation of analytics are described. A system comprises, for example, one or more modules. A first module is configured to combine data received from an official government source and from a docketing system. The data received may pertain to one or more assets of a patent portfolio. A second module is configured to generate a metric of the patent portfolio based on the combined data. The metric may measure a characteristic of the patent portfolio. A third module is configured to receive a request from a client device to display the metric. A fourth module is configured to, in response to the request to display the metric, display the metric in a user interface that includes one or more filtering elements that are selectable to request a filtering of the displayed metric.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for creating a new patent portfolio by a portfolio management system, the method comprising:

generating a graphical user interface including a first user interface element for displaying a profile of the portfolio management system and a second user interface element for receiving a command to initiate creation of the new patent portfolio;

in response to receiving the command to initiate creation of the new patent portfolio, identifying at least one patent or patent application related to the profile within the patent portfolio management system;

automatically assigning a name for the new patent portfolio using a profile identifier and at least one of a patent owner name, an inventor name, or a region name;

creating the new patent portfolio with the automatically assigned name within the patent portfolio management system;

adding the identified at least one patent or patent application related to the profile to the new patent portfolio;

generating a map of the world with indications of countries where the at least one patent has issued or the at least one patent application has been filed;

identifying, for each country where the at least one patent has issued or patent application has been filed, a set of prior art documents related to the at least one patent or patent application for the respective country;

identifying, for the respective set of prior art documents of each country, a set of prior art keywords;

identifying a set of matter keywords for the at least one patent or patent application;

determining, for each country, a set of unique keywords based on keywords appearing uniquely in the set of matter keywords compared to the respective set of prior art keywords;

enabling a user of the patent portfolio management system to access analytics and the map for the new patent portfolio;

displaying, in the first user interface element, an image of the map of the world, wherein countries on the map are highlighted corresponding to the indications and wherein for each highlighted country the respective set of unique keywords is displayed;

updating the second user interface element for receiving a command corresponding to each of the indications to initiate creation of a country specific patent portfolio; and

in response to receiving a respective command to initiate creation of the country specific patent portfolio, creating the country specific patent portfolio corresponding to the respective country including the at least one patent that has issued for that country or the at least one patent application that has been filed for that country.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile is based on a patent owner.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile is based on an inventor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the profile is based on a patent.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein creating the new patent portfolio further comprises generating the analytics.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically generating the analytics upon selection of the second user interface element.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating, for display, a confirmation graphical user interface including an indication of creation of the new patent portfolio and the automatically assigned name.

5. A patent portfolio management system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations to;

generate a graphical user interface including a first user interface element for display of a profile of the portfolio management system and a second user interface element to receive a command to initiate creation of a new patent portfolio;

in response to receipt the command to initiate creation of the new patent portfolio, identify at least one patent or patent application related to the profile within the patent portfolio management system;

automatically assign a name for the new patent portfolio using a profile identifier and at least one of a patent owner name, an inventor name, or a region name;

create the new patent portfolio with the automatically assigned name within the patent portfolio management system;

add the identified at least one patent or patent application related to the profile to the new patent portfolio;

generate a map of the world with indications of countries where the at least one patent has issued or the at least one patent application has been filed;

identify, for each country where the at least one patent has issued or patent application has been filed, a set of prior art documents related to the at least one patent or patent application for the respective country;

identify, for the respective set of prior art documents of each country, a set of prior art keywords;

identify a set of matter keywords for the at least one patent or patent application;

determining, for each country, a set of unique keywords based on keywords appearing uniquely in the set of matter keywords compared to the respective set of prior art keywords;

enable a user of the patent portfolio management system to access analytics and the map for the new patent portfolio;

display, in the first user interface element, an image of the map of the world, wherein countries on the map are highlighted corresponding to the indications and wherein for each highlighted country the respective set of unique keywords is displayed;

update the second user interface element for receiving a command corresponding to each of the indications to initiate creation of a country specific patent portfolio; and

in response to receiving a respective command to initiate creation of the country specific patent portfolio, create the country specific patent portfolio corresponding to the respective country including the at least one patent that has issued for that country or the at least one patent application that has been filed for that country.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the profile is based on a patent owner.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the profile is based on an inventor.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the profiles based on a patent.

16. The patent portfolio management system of claim 5, wherein the instructions to create the new patent portfolio include instructions to generate the analytics.

17. The patent portfolio management system of claim 5, further comprising instructions to:

automatically generate the analytics upon selection of the second user interface element.

18. The patent portfolio management system of claim 5, further comprising instructions to generate, for display, a confirmation graphical user interface including an indication of creation of the new patent portfolio and the automatically assigned name.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

generating a graphical user interface including a first user interface element for displaying a profile of a portfolio management system and a second user interface element for receiving a command to initiate creation of a new patent portfolio;

in response to receiving the command to initiate creation of the new patent portfolio, identifying at least one patent or patent application related to the profile within a patent portfolio management system;

automatically assigning a name for the new patent portfolio using a profile identifier and at least one of a patent owner name, an inventor name, or a region name;

creating the new patent portfolio with the automatically assigned name within the patent portfolio management system;

adding the identified at least one patent or patent application related to the profile to the new patent portfolio;

generating a map of the world with indications of countries where the at least one patent has issued or the at least one patent application has been filed;

identifying, for each country where the at least one patent has issued or patent application has been filed, a set of prior art documents related to the at least one patent or patent application for the respective country;

identifying, for the respective set of prior art documents of each country, a set of prior art keywords;

identifying a set of matter keywords for the at least one patent or patent application;

determining, for each country, a set of unique keywords based on keywords appearing uniquely in the set of matter keywords compared to the respective set of prior art keywords;

enabling a user of the patent portfolio management system to access analytics and the map for the new patent portfolio;

displaying, in the first user interface element, an image of the map of the world, wherein countries on the map are highlighted corresponding to the indications and wherein for each highlighted country the respective set of unique keywords is displayed;

updating the second user interface element for receiving a command corresponding to each of the indications to initiate creation of a country specific patent portfolio; and

in response to receiving a respective command to initiate creation of the country specific patent portfolio, creating the country specific patent portfolio corresponding to the respective country including the at least one patent that has issued for that country or the at least one patent application that has been filed for that country.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the profile i based on a patent owner.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the profile is based on an inventor.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the profile is based on a patent.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions for creating the new patent portfolio include instructions for generating the analytics.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions causing the machine to perform operations further comprises:

automatically generating the analytics upon selection of the second user interface element.