Search Assistant Method
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240303260A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18661501

    申请日:2024-05-10

    发明人: Frank C. Nicholas

    摘要: A search assistant method, the method of searching for patent documents material to elements of a target patent document including: receiving the target patent document including the elements, the target patent document being machine-readable; selecting keywords from the elements; identifying synonyms corresponding to the keywords in a synonym database; forming the keywords and the identified synonyms into a search string; identifying patent documents in a patent database based on the search string; highlighting the keywords and the identified synonyms in the identified patent documents; ranking the identified patent documents based on relevance of the highlighted keywords and the highlighted identified synonyms in each of the identified patent documents to the search string; determining citations in at least one of the ranked identified patent documents for each of the highlighted keywords and the highlighted identified synonyms; and mapping the elements of the target patent document to the determined citations.

    Search assistant method using computer vision analysis

    公开(公告)号:US11983206B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-14

    申请号:US16507023

    申请日:2019-07-09

    发明人: Frank C. Nicholas

    摘要: A search assistant method, the method of searching for patent documents material to elements of a target patent document including: receiving the target patent document including the elements, the target patent document being machine-readable; selecting keywords from the elements; identifying synonyms corresponding to the keywords in a synonym database; forming the keywords and the identified synonyms into a search string; identifying patent documents in a patent database based on the search string; highlighting the keywords and the identified synonyms in the identified patent documents; ranking the identified patent documents based on relevance of the highlighted keywords and the highlighted identified synonyms in each of the identified patent documents to the search string; determining citations in at least one of the ranked identified patent documents for each of the highlighted keywords and the highlighted identified synonyms; and mapping the elements of the target patent document to the determined citations.