CN1828579A - Patent Analysis System - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a patent analysis system, which forms a matrix map when an analysis icon is formed, wherein one axis of the matrix map is marked with patentees related to patents, and the other axis is marked with the approved times. And the retrieved patents are arranged at the intersection of the patentee and the approved age.

Description

Patent Analysis System

technical field

The invention relates to an analysis system, in particular to a patent analysis system.

Background technique

In the era of knowledge economy, one of the sharp tools for enterprises to maintain competitiveness is the establishment, management and application of patents. In addition to enabling the industry to maintain its exclusive domain knowledge and avoid being imitated or infringed by competitors, patents can also provide insight into the opponent's industrial layout and technical density in this technical field through the analysis of patents in a technical field. Avoid infringing on the rights of others, and then establish your own patent layout in this technical field. Therefore, under the development trend of this industry, how to conduct patent analysis is actually an important issue for industrial management.

However, the traditional method used to provide patent analysis usually only provides a peer-to-peer online map, showing patents that cite each other in a tie-in manner, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 . Therefore, according to the traditional graph display method, what is displayed on the screen can at best only inform the searcher of the citations between patents and the corresponding patent numbers. At this time, if you want to further check who is the patentee of this specific patent, its approval year, its technical content, abstract information, etc., you can only click on this specific patent number and display the full text of the patent content. Check it out. This not only consumes time, but also makes patent analysis more difficult.

Therefore, how to quickly conduct patent analysis and provide effective corresponding patent-related information has become the primary goal of patent analysis.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a patent analysis system, which can display in real time the relationship among patents in a technical field, as well as the patentees and approval years of each patent.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a patent analysis system, which can display the ranking of the number of citations of each patent in a technical field in real time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying patent analysis results, which can display in real time the relationship among patents in a technical field, as well as the patentees and approval years of each patent.

In view of the above purpose, the present invention proposes a patent analysis system. When forming an analysis icon, a matrix map will be formed first, wherein one axis of the matrix map indicates the patentees related to these patents, while the other axis indicates the patentees related to these patents. Approval years. And the extracted patents are arranged at the intersection of the two according to the patentee and the year of approval.

According to another embodiment, the present invention proposes a patent analysis system, in which multiple patent numbers are stored in the patent database, and each patent number stores the name data, date data, representative icon data, and abstract of the patent. data, claims data, known problems and solutions data, technical feature data, and patent content data.

According to another embodiment, the present invention proposes a patent analysis system. The patent database is also coupled to a user interface, so as to regroup, delete or add additional patent information to the stored data.

According to another embodiment, the present invention proposes a patent analysis system, which also includes a network connection module, which can be connected to a network, so that multiple remote users can connect to the patent analysis system through the network.

Since the analysis graph generated by the patent analysis system of the present invention can simultaneously display the patentee and approval year of each patent, it allows users to know the number of patents owned by each patentee in this specific field in real time. It is also possible to determine which patent and which patentee owns the basic patent in this specific field based on the year of obtaining the certificate and the citation relationship between each patent.

Description of drawings

In order to make the above-mentioned and other purposes, features, and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, they are described as follows in conjunction with the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 and Figure 2 show a traditional patent analysis icon.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a patent analysis system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows related patent data under a patent number according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 shows a patent analysis icon according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an icon showing the citation relationship among various patents according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 7 shows representative icons of each patent displayed in the patent analysis icon of the present invention according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference symbols

100 Patent database 102 Patent processing platform

1021 Network connection module 1022 Patent retrieval module

1023 processing module                                                                                                                                                              

104 Network 106, 108, and 110 Remote Users

112 User Interface 500 and 501 Patents

2000 patent number 2001 data

2002 patent related date data 2003 represents icon data

2004 Summary Data 2005 Claims Data

2006 Known Problems and Solutions Data 2007 Technical Characteristic Data

2008 patent content data

Detailed ways

Fig. 3 is a diagram of a patent analysis system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the patent analysis system of the present invention includes at least a patent database 100 and a patent processing platform 102 .

Among them, there are many patent data stored in the patent database of the present invention, and the patent number is used as the classification standard. Each patent number is 2000. As shown in Figure 4, various data corresponding to the patent number 2000 can be stored respectively. . For example, personal name data 2001, such as patentee or inventor, patent related date data 2002, such as application, approval, publication, priority and other related dates, representative icon data 2003, abstract data 2004, claim data 2005, known problems And solution data 2006, technical feature data 2007 and patent content data 2008, etc. In addition, the citation relationship between each patent number is also structured in the patent database 100 . The construction method of the above-mentioned items of data and the connection relationship between each patent number can be completed by using Excel or Access system provided by Microsoft Corporation, for example. In addition, there is no certain sorting relationship among the various data, and different request signals can be generated by the user through a user interface 112 according to requirements to recombine, delete or add additional patent information to the various data.

The patent processing platform 102 of the present invention includes a network connection module 1021 , a patent retrieval module 1022 , a processing module 1023 and an output/import module 1024 . Wherein the network connection module 1021 can be connected to a network 104, so that multiple remote users 106, 108 and 110 can connect to the patent processing platform 102 through the network 104, and upload a request signal, wherein the request signal can be, for example, a request for a A specific patent number, or request the corresponding data under a specific patent number. An output/input module 1024 is coupled to the network connection module 1021 , receives the request signal, and sends the request signal to the capture module 1022 through the processing module 1023 . The extraction module 1022 extracts the specific patent according to the request signal, and at the same time extracts the patents that have a connection relationship with the specific patent according to the connection relationship between the patents in the patent database 100, and sends these patents to Processing module 1023.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the processing module 1023 arranges the retrieved patents in a matrix composed of patentees and approval years. In other words, the processing module 1023 of the present invention first forms a matrix map, one axis of which indicates the patentees related to these patents, and the other axis of the coordinate relationship with the patentees indicates the year of approval. Next, the processing module 1023 arranges each patent at the corresponding position in the matrix icon according to the patentee and the year of approval of each patent. For example, the patent 500 shown in the figure, that is, the patent number US5623354, its patentee is IBM, and the approval year is 1997, so the processing module 1023 arranges this patent 500 at the cross position of IBM and 1997. In addition, the processing module 1023 of the present invention will also calculate the number of citations of each patent and the number of citations between each patent, and mark the importance of each patent in order according to the number of citations. The way to show the citation relationship between each patent. As shown in Fig. 6, the patent 501 approved by IBM in 1994, the patent number is US5309624, is the application with the most citations among the patents approved thereafter. Therefore, it can be concluded that in this technical field, Patent 501 should be a basic patent, and all subsequent patents more or less cite part of the content of this case. Therefore, with this icon, not only can you see the number of patents each patentee owns in a specific field, but you can also determine which patent belongs to a specific field by the year of issuance and the citation relationship between each patent under the basic patent.

On the other hand, by clicking on the specific patent number in the icon, all data related to this specific patent number, as shown in Figure 4, will be displayed on the side of this patent for users to choose. For example, when the user clicks on the icon data 2003, as shown in FIG. 7, the representative icons of each patent will be displayed on the screen in real time, and the arrows will point to the patents represented by the representative icons.

To sum up, in order to solve the shortcomings of traditional patent analysis systems that display icon information that is not clear enough, the patent analysis system of the present invention first forms a matrix map when forming analysis icons, wherein one axis of the matrix map is marked with these patents. The relevant patentees, while the other axis shows the year of grant. And the extracted patents are arranged at the intersection of the two according to the patentee and the year of approval. Since the analysis graph of the present invention can display the patentee and the approval year of each patent at the same time, it allows users to know the number of patents owned by each patentee in a specific field in real time, and can also be obtained by obtaining the certificate Year, as well as the citation relationship between each patent, determine which patent is the basic patent in a specific field.

Although the present invention has been disclosed above with a preferred embodiment, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore The protection scope of the present invention shall be determined by the claims of the present invention.

Claims (21)

1. A patent analysis system, whereby a patent analysis icon is output according to a request signal, including: A patent database, storing multiple patents and data related to said patents; An extraction module, connected to the patent database, for extracting corresponding patents from the patent database according to the request signal; A patent processing module connected with the extraction module to form the patent analysis icon, wherein one coordinate axis of the patent analysis icon is marked with the patentee row related to the corresponding patent, and the other coordinate axis is marked with the patentee row related to the corresponding patent. The year of grant related to the corresponding patent, and each of the corresponding patents is arranged at the corresponding position point of its patentee and the year of grant; and An output/input module, connected to the patent processing module, for outputting the patent analysis icon. 2. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a user interface connected to the patent database for generating different request signals to update the patent data. 3. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a network connection module connected to the output/import module. 4. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 3, wherein multiple remote users can connect to the patent analysis system through the network connection module. 5. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data related to the patent is selected from name data, patent related date data, representative icon data, abstract data, claim data, known problems and solutions data, technical feature data, and patent content data, or any combination thereof. 6. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the patent processing module further comprises an online representation of the relationship between the corresponding patents in the patent analysis icon. 7. The patent analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the patent processing module further includes the function of calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent in order according to the number of citations . 8. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the patent processing module further includes calculating the citation times of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent sequentially according to the number of citations. 9. The patent analysis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the patent processing module further includes calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent in sequence according to the number of citations . 10. A patent analysis icon used to display the relationship between multiple patents, including: a first axis indicating the list of patentees associated with the patent in question; and a second axis, forming a coordinate relationship with the first axis, marked with the year of grant related to the patent, wherein the first axis and the second axis form a matrix icon, and each of the patents is arranged in its The corresponding positions of the patentee and the year of approval are clicked. 11. The patent analysis icon of claim 10, further comprising an online representation of the relationship between the patents. 12. The patent analysis icon as claimed in claim 10, further comprising displaying corresponding name data, relevant date data of the patent, representative icon data, abstract data, claim data, known problems and solutions next to each said patent Means data, technical feature data or patent content data, or any combination thereof. 13. The patent analysis icon according to claim 10, further comprising marking each patent in order according to the number of times each patent in the patent analysis icon cites each other. 14. The patent analysis icon according to claim 10, further comprising calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent sequentially according to the number of citations. 15. The patent analysis icon according to claim 10, further comprising calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent in order according to the number of citations. 16. A patent analysis method to display the relationship between multiple patents, including: A matrix icon is formed, wherein the first axis of the matrix icon is marked with the patentee column related to the patent, and the second axis forming a coordinate relationship with the first axis is marked with the patentee column related to the patent the year of approval; and Arrange each said patent in the matrix icon, which is arranged on the corresponding position point of the patentee and the year of approval of the patent. 17. The patent analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising forming a plurality of links between the patents to represent the relationship between the patents. 18. The patent analysis method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising displaying corresponding name data, relevant date data of the patent, representative icon data, abstract data, claim data, known problems and solutions beside each said patent Means data, technical feature data or patent content data, or any combination thereof. 19. The patent analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising marking each patent in sequence according to the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon. 20. The patent analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent in order according to the number of citations. 21. The patent analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising calculating the number of citations of each patent in the patent analysis icon, and marking each patent in order according to the number of citations.

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