TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS CAPTURING AND PATENTS ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140192379A1
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paitrix Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Paitrix Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Yu-Chen, Chang, Chao-Chin, Chen, Chen-Kun
• Granted Patent: US 8,922,804 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/11 Patent retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/40 Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00681 Detecting the presence, position or size of a sheet or correcting its position before scanning H04N1/047 takes precedence; mode signalling H04N1/333; skew detection or correction in image signals H04N1/3878

Abstract

A system and related method are provided for managing technical documents. The system includes a graphical screen divided into a plurality of document units arranged in a m×n manner, where both m and n are integers larger than 1. Each of the document units occupies a screen area for displaying document information of a document, and said document information including important information, at least one related drawing or both of the document.

Claims

1. A reading system for technical documents, said reading system at least comprising a graphical screen divided into a plurality of document units arranged in a m×

n manner, where both m and n are integers larger than 1, each of said document units being a screen area for displaying document information of a document, and said document information including important information, at least one related drawing or both of the technical document.

2. The reading system of claim 1, further comprising a zoom module for a user to perform a zoom in/zoom out operation on the document units.

3. The reading system of claim 2, wherein the zoom in/zoom out operation is performed by providing a larger image of the document unit that is hovered by a cursor.

4. The reading system of claim 2, wherein the values of m and n are referenced to determine the display ratio of the images of the document units.

5. The reading system of claim 2, further comprising a zoom module for zooming in/zooming out the document units so that different sizes of the document units are displayed.

6. The reading system of claim 1, further comprising a commentating system for users to log comments to the technical documents.

7. The reading system of claim 6, wherein the commentating system provides users with capability to log comments on the technical documents, show comments from other users, attach or generate data collected or generated in reading the documents.

8. The reading system of claim 6, wherein the commentating system comprises an attorney audit unit for at least one attorney so that analysis or data are used for seeking legal opinion or taking legal action.

9. The reading system of claim 6, wherein the commentating system display comments in the manner of a blog.

10. The reading system of claim 6, wherein the commentating system having a first commentating system for all users and a second commentating system with authority control for only specific users to share specific information.

11. The reading system of claim 1, further comprising a classification module for classifying the technical documents into technical classes or product classes.

12. The reading system of claim 1, wherein m, which indicates the column number of the document units, ranges from 3 to 7 and n, which indicates the row number of the document units, ranges from 3 to 1000.

13. The reading system of claim 1, wherein a cursor is shown on the graphical screen, and when the cursor is moved by a user upon one document unit, a popup window shows the important information corresponding to the document unit.

14. The reading system of claim 1, further comprising a classification module for classifying the technical documents into classes, wherein the classes are of a hierarchical structure with a plurality of levels.

15. A method implemented in a patent document reading system for generating patent information of a plurality of patent documents, comprising the steps of:

dividing a graphical screen of said patent document reading system into a plurality document units arranged in a m×

n manner, where both m and n are integers larger than 1, each of said document units being a screen area for displaying patent information of a patent document;

selecting the patent information comprising a related drawing, corresponding important information or both for each of said patent documents; and

displaying the patent information of each of said patent documents in one of the document units.

16. A reading system for reading patent documents, comprising a graphical screen divided into a plurality of document units arranged in a m×

n manner, where m and n are bigger than one, each of the document unit being a screen area comprising a first sub-area for displaying a related drawing of one patent document and comprising a second sub-area for displaying at least one piece information of title, assignee, inventor, abstract, application number, filing date, publication date, issue date, and document number of said one patent document.

17. The reading system of claim 16, wherein the second sub-area displays more than two pieces of information of title, assignee, inventor, abstract, application number, filing date, publication date, issue date, and document number of said one patent document.

18. The reading system of claim 16, wherein a cursor is shown on the graphical screen, and when the cursor is moved by a user upon one document unit, a popup window shows the important information corresponding to the document unit.

19. The reading system of claim 16, further comprising a first commentating system for providing information to all users.

20. The reading system of claim 16, further comprising a second commentating system with authority control for providing specific users to access specific information.