CN1492355A - Patent analysis report automatic generation system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

An automatic generation system for patent analysis reports, which includes multiple client computers, an application software server and a local database server. The application software server includes a patent download engine, a report template maintenance device, a patent analysis engine, and a report generation device. The user sets patent download conditions and patent analysis conditions through the user interface of the client computer, the patent download engine downloads patents according to the download conditions, the patent analysis engine generates analysis results according to the patent analysis conditions set by the user, and the report generation device according to the report selected by the user The template and the patent analysis results generated by the patent analysis engine generate a patent analysis report. The invention can automatically generate a patent analysis report according to user-defined patent analysis conditions and report templates.

Description

Patent analysis report automatic generation system and method

【Technical field】

The invention relates to a patent information processing system and method, in particular to a patent analysis report automatic generation system and method.

【Background technique】

Patents contain a large amount of technical, legal, economic and strategic information, and analyzing patent information can provide auxiliary information for corporate decision-making. The patent analysis software currently available on the market mainly includes the patent analysis software SmartPatent Workbench of the US SmartPatents Company, and its corresponding patent application is US Patent No. Group-centric data processing system, method and software product" (System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Patent-Centric and Group-Oriented Data Processing). The patent discloses a technology that combines patent information with company financial information, research and development information, manufacturing information and licensing information for analysis. It focuses on how to combine and analyze patent information and group information (ie financial information, research and development information, manufacturing information and authorization information, etc.) to assist companies in making strategic decisions. A patent analysis report is mainly aimed at a certain range of patents, and counts the number of patents corresponding to a specific item. These specific items include inventors, patentees, application years, announcement years, technology Classification, etc., such as the analysis of patentees, that is, to count the number of patents owned by each major patentee. For many similar patent reports, the above analysis needs to be repeated one by one, which is time-consuming and laborious. Therefore, it is hoped to provide an automatic patent analysis report generation system, which can automatically generate patent analysis reports according to user-defined conditions.

U.S. Patent No. 5,189,608, dated February 23, 1993, titled "Method and Apparatus for Storing and Generating Financial Information Employing User Specified Input" (Method and Apparatus for Storing and Generating Financial Information Employing User Specified Input and Output Formats), this patent provides an automatic financial report generation technology, which provides user-defined report templates, and then generates financial reports based on the templates based on user-defined conditions. This patented technology is dedicated to the generation of financial reports, and it is hoped to provide a technology that can apply this technology to the automatic generation of patent analysis reports.

【Content of invention】

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a system and method for automatically generating patent analysis reports, which can automatically generate patent analysis reports according to user-defined templates and analysis conditions.

The invention provides a patent analysis report automatic generation system and method, which includes multiple client computers, an application software server and a local database. Any of the client computers provides an interactive user interface through which users can set patent download conditions, set patent analysis conditions, define and maintain patent analysis report templates. The application software server includes a report template maintenance device, a patent download engine, a patent analysis engine, a report generation device and a control device. Among them, the report template maintenance device provides users with adding, modifying, deleting and querying patent analysis report templates. The patent download engine automatically downloads patent information and patent family information from a remote database according to the patent download conditions and patent family download conditions set by the user. The patent analysis engine generates patent analysis results according to the patent analysis conditions set by the user, and includes multiple patent analysis devices, each corresponding to a specific patent analysis type. The report generation device generates a patent analysis report according to the report template selected by the user and the analysis results generated by the patent analysis engine. The control device controls the operation of the report template maintenance device, the patent download engine, the patent analysis engine, and the report generation device, and the interaction between the report template maintenance device, the patent download engine, the patent analysis engine, and the report generation device and the client computer. Download conditions set by the user and transmit the download conditions to the patent download engine, and display the download results to the user through an interactive user interface; receive the patent analysis conditions set by the user and transmit them to the patent analysis engine; at the same time, generate the patent family analysis engine The analysis results are transmitted to the report generation device, and the report generated by the report generation device is transmitted to the client computer. The local database is used to store downloaded patent information and patent family information.

The present invention also provides a method for automatically generating patent analysis reports, which can automatically generate patent analysis reports according to user-defined analysis conditions and analysis report templates. The method includes the following steps: (a) the user sets the patent download conditions through the user interface; (b) The patent download engine downloads patent materials from a remote database through the external network according to the patent download conditions; (c) The user selects a report template through the user interface; (d) The user selects at least one analysis type through the user interface; (e) Set the analysis conditions and analysis result display format for each selected analysis type; (f) patent analysis engine searches the local patent database according to the patent analysis conditions, and converts the obtained results into user-defined analysis result display format; (g) report The generating device writes the results generated by the patent analysis engine into the report template selected by the user to generate a patent analysis report.

The system and method for automatically generating patent analysis reports of the present invention provide user-defined report templates and patent analysis conditions, and can automatically generate patent analysis reports according to the report templates and patent analysis conditions, which improves the operating efficiency of patent analysis reports and saves time cost.

【Description of drawings】

Fig. 1 is a hardware architecture diagram of the patent analysis report automatic generation system of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a functional block diagram of the patent analysis report automatic generation system of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an operation flow chart of the system and method for automatically generating a patent analysis report of the present invention.

【Detailed ways】

As shown in FIG. 1 , it is a hardware architecture diagram of the patent analysis report automatic generation system described in the present invention. The system includes multiple client computers 10 , an application software server 12 , a local database server 15 and at least one remote database server 16 . The client computer 10 is connected to the application software server 12 through the network 11. The network 11 may be an intranet of an enterprise, or the Internet or other types of communication networks. Application software server 12 links to each other with local database server 15 by connection 13, and connection 13 is a kind of database connection, as open database connection (Open Database Connectivity, ODBC), or Java database connection (Java Database Connectivity, JDBC) etc. The remote database server 16 is connected to the application software server 12 through the external network 14, and the external network 14 is an external communication network, such as the Internet. The application software server 12 acquires patent information and patent family information through the remote database server 16 . The local database server 15 is used to access the patent information and patent family information obtained from the remote database server 16 .

As shown in FIG. 2 , it is a functional block diagram of the patent analysis report automatic generation system of the present invention. The client computer 10 includes a user interface 100 and a result output device 101 . The user interface 100 provides an interactive user interface 100 for users to perform corresponding operations, including the definition and maintenance of patent analysis report templates, the setting of patent download conditions, and the setting of patent analysis conditions. The result output device 101 is used to output a patent analysis report.

The application software server 12 includes a patent download engine 120 , a report template maintenance device 121 , a patent analysis engine 122 , a report generation device 123 and a control device 124 . The patent download engine 120 is used for automatically downloading patent data and patent family data from the remote database server 16 . The remote database server 160 includes a remote database, and the remote database 160 includes patent databases of different countries or regions, such as the patent database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (United States Patent and Trademark Office), the patent database of the European Patent Office (European Patent Office) , State Intellectual Property Office of P.R.China patent database, etc., and patent family database, such as the patent family database provided by LexisNexis of the United States through its website www.lexis.com. The local database server 15 includes a local database 150 for storing downloaded patent information and patent family information. The patent download engine 120 sends a query request to the remote database server 16 through the external network 14 according to the download conditions set by the user through the user interface 100, requesting to obtain qualified patent materials and patent family materials, and the remote database server returns a query result to the patent download server. The engine 120, the patent download engine 120 saves the query result to the local database 150 through the connection 13. The user can view the downloaded patent list and patent information through the user interface 100, and delete unnecessary patents from the patent list as required. Users can also customize the classification of each patent one by one through the user interface 100 . The custom taxonomy of patents is saved to the local database 150 .

The report template maintenance device 121 is used for defining and maintaining report templates. The user defines and maintains report templates through the user interface 100 , including adding, modifying, deleting, and querying report templates. The set report templates are saved in the local database 150 . The setting of the report template includes the document type used in the report (such as Microsoft Word file), the structure of the main body of the report, the layout of the report and the object of the report, etc. For example, patent analysis reports include technical survey reports, company survey reports, and product survey reports, among which technical survey reports are patent analysis reports for a certain technical field; company survey reports are patent analysis reports for a company; product survey reports The report is a patent analysis report for a specific product. Different types of patent analysis reports have different report subject structures. For technical survey reports, the report subject content may include application year or announcement year analysis, patent family analysis, patentee analysis, etc.; for company survey reports, the report subject may include: Including the analysis of application year or announcement year, patent family analysis, technical field analysis and patent index analysis, etc.

The patent analysis engine 122 is used to generate analysis results according to the analysis conditions set by the user through the user interface 100. It includes a plurality of patent analysis devices 1220, and each patent analysis device 1220 corresponds to an analysis type, and is used to statistically generate the analysis type Results include patentee analysis, which is to count the number of patents owned by each major patentee; inventor analysis, which is to count the number of patents owned by each major inventor; patent year analysis, which is to count the number of patent applications or authorized patents for each patent year Quantity; technology classification analysis, that is, statistical distribution of the number of patents in each technology category; patent citation analysis, that is, statistics of patent citations and cited status of each company, each technology category, and each patent; patent index analysis, that is, statistical calculation of each company Patent index value; patent family analysis, statistical distribution of patent families of each patent, each company and each technical field.

The report generation device 123 is used to generate a patent analysis report in a specified format according to the analysis results generated by the patent analysis engine 122 and the report template selected by the user.

The control device 124 is used for controlling the operation of other functional modules in the application software server 12 and the interaction between these functional modules and the client computer 10 . The control device 124 receives the patent download conditions set by the user through the user interface 100, transmits it to the patent download engine 120, and presents the download result generated by the patent download engine to the user through the user interface 100 and saves it to the local database 150; The patent analysis conditions set through the user interface 100 are sent to the patent analysis engine 122 to generate analysis results, and the analysis results are sent to the report generation device 123, and the patent analysis report generated by the report generation device 123 is sent to the result output device 101.

As shown in FIG. 3 , it is an operation flow chart of the system and method for automatically generating patent analysis reports of the present invention. First, the user sets the patent downloading conditions through the user interface 100 (step S30 ), which serves as the basis for subsequent patent analysis. The set patent download conditions are sent to the patent download engine 120 through the control device 124, and the patent download engine 120 generates query sentences according to the patent download conditions, and sends them to the remote database server 16, and the remote database server 16 searches the remote database 160 to find the matching conditions , and send qualified patent materials to the patent download engine 120 through the external network 14 . The patent download engine 120 saves these patent materials to the local database 150 through the control device 124, and displays them to the user through the user interface 100. The user can query one by one and remove unqualified patents from the patent list. After the scope of the patent data is determined, the user selects a report template through the user interface 100 (step S32), and sets the basic data of the report (step S33), including the report title, report case number, abstract and undertaker. After setting, the report template is sent to the report generating device 123 through the control device 124 . Then go to step S34, choose to report at least one patent analysis type, the available patent analysis types include patentee analysis, inventor analysis, patent year analysis, patent agent or agency analysis, patent priority analysis, patent Technology classification analysis, review committee analysis, patent citation analysis, patent index analysis and patent family analysis, etc. For each type of analysis, the system defaults to the analysis conditions and display format of the analysis results. The setting of the analysis conditions is mainly to limit the data range of the patent analysis, including time range, technical category range, etc.; the display format of the analysis results is mainly Set the type and format of statistical analysis charts. For example, for patent year analysis, the system defaults to statistical analysis of the top 10 patent years with the largest number of patents, and the analysis results are displayed as a line graph, etc. If the user needs to customize the analysis conditions and analysis result display format of a specific analysis type , the corresponding analysis conditions and analysis result display format can be set through the user interface 100 (step S35). After the setting is completed, these analysis conditions and the display format of the analysis results are transmitted to the patent analysis engine 122 through the control device 124, and the patent analysis engine 122 activates the corresponding patent analysis device 1220, and the patent analysis device 1220 generates query sentences according to the set patent analysis conditions , and transmit the query statement to the local database server 15, and the local database server 15 searches the local database 150 to generate corresponding analysis results (step S36). The analysis result is transmitted to the patent analysis device 1220, and the patent analysis device 1220 converts the analysis result into a user-defined display format. These analysis results conforming to the user-defined format are transmitted to the analysis report generation device 123 through the control device 124, and the analysis report generation device 123 writes these analysis results into corresponding positions of the report template to generate a patent analysis report (step S37). Finally, the patent analysis report is output through the result output device 101 (step S38). So far, the process 3 ends (step S39).

Claims (6)

1. patent analysis report automatic creation system, include many client computers, an application software server and a local data bank, wherein client computer links to each other with application software server by network, application software server connects by a kind of database and links to each other with local data base, it is characterized in that:

Client computer provides an interactive user interface, and the user can set patent by this interactive user interface and download condition, patent analyses condition and definition are set and safeguard the patent analysis report template;

Application software server includes:

One report template attending device provides the user to increase newly, revise, delete and inquiry patent analysis report template;

One patent download engine, it can download condition automatically from remote data base download Patent data and patent family data according to patent download condition and patent family that the user is provided with;

One patent analyses engine, it can generate the patent analyses result according to the patent analyses condition that the user is provided with, and it includes a plurality of patent analyses devices, corresponds respectively to a kind of specific patent analyses type;

One report preparing apparatus, the analysis result that report template that it can be selected according to the user and patent analyses engine generate generates patent analysis report.

One control device, its control report template attending device, the patent download engine, the running of patent analyses engine and report preparing apparatus, and report template attending device, the patent download engine, mutual between patent analyses engine and report preparing apparatus and the client computer, it receives the download condition of user's setting and the download condition is sent to the patent download engine, to download the result and show the user by interactive user interface, receive the patent analyses condition of user's setting and to the patent analyses engine of sending, the analysis result that the patent family analysis engine is produced sends report preparing apparatus to simultaneously, and the report that report preparing apparatus is generated sends client computer to;

Patent data and patent family data that the local data library storage is downloaded.

2. patent analysis report automatic creation system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: wherein client computer also includes an output unit as a result, is used to export patent analysis report.

3. patent analysis report automatic creation system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: wherein alternative patent analyses type includes patentee's analysis, inventor's analysis, patent annual analysis, patent agent or agency's analysis, patent priority analysis, patented technology classification analysis, juror's analysis, patent citation analysis, patent index analysis and patent family analysis.

4. a patent analysis report generates method automatically, it is characterized in that including following steps:

(a) user downloads condition by the UI Preferences patent;

(b) the patent download engine is downloaded condition according to this patent and is downloaded Patent data by external network from a remote data base;

(c) user selects report template by user interface;

(d) user selects at least a analysis type by user interface;

(e) for each selected analysis type analysis condition and analysis result display format are set;

(f) the patent analyses engine is according to the local patent database of this patent analyses conditional search, and converts the gained result to user institute defined analysis display format as a result;

(g) report preparing apparatus writes to user-selected report template according to the result that the patent analyses engine is generated, and generates patent analysis report.

5. patent analysis report as claimed in claim 4 generates method automatically, it is characterized in that: also include the step of patent analysis report by the output of output unit as a result of client computer.

6. patent analysis report as claimed in claim 4 generates method automatically, it is characterized in that: comprise that also the user increases, revises, deletes and inquire about the step of patent analysis report template newly by user interface.

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