KR20100002223A - A automatic recording system for information about operations of searching and reading patent documents and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a work log system and method of a patent document, in which a user terminal accesses a patent retrieval system and records and notes information on a unit work for searching or reading a patent document. An extraction step of extracting and storing the job information of the; And a memo step of adding a memo to the extracted work information of the unit work.

According to the system and method as described above, by systematically recording a series of workflows for reading patent documents, the user can grasp the flow of his work at a glance after the fact without any additional trouble of recording the tasks. have.

Description

Work log system and method of patent document {A automatic recording system for information about operations of searching and reading patent documents and the method

The present invention relates to a work log system and method of a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system to record and memo information on a unit work for searching or reading a patent document.

The present invention also relates to a work log system and method of a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system to share work information searched or viewed with other users, and shows work information in a calendar format.

In general, a patent search means finding a patent document that is related to a specific technology or has similar technical contents. In this case, the patent document mainly refers to a published publication, and the publication includes a publication or a registration publication. In addition, the patent document includes a utility model in addition to the patent.

However, unlike the general document, the patent document is quite structured. The entire patent document is divided into bibliography and text. Bibliographic details of patent documents include identification numbers of patent documents such as application numbers, publication numbers, and registration numbers, and the identification, characteristics, and rights of patent documents, including the name of the invention, applicant, inventor, agent, IPC classification, application date, and examination request date. And the like indicating information. The text contains the technical details of the patent. However, the text is also structured by dividing the content into summary, claims, drawings, background, detailed description, and the like.

On the other hand, the patent search is performed by extracting a patent document suitable for the structure of the patent document as described above, using a search word for the body content or by restricting the items such as various bibliographic items. Then, the contents of the patent document are reviewed on the basis of the extracted patent document to confirm whether the patent document is to be found. At this time, the reading method of the patent document for reviewing the contents of the patent document is various, such as the method of checking the entire original text of the patent document, the summary, claims, drawings, major bibliographic details, and the like. In addition, in order to more effectively read the patent document there is a way to gather and view only the most essential of the contents of the patent document.

In addition, among the reading methods of the patent document, there is a method of reading by linking with other related patent documents. For example, there is a citation relationship indicating another patent document cited by a patent document, or a family relationship which is a relationship between patent documents having the same original application but applied for each country. Some of the patent retrieval systems link patent documents in citation or family relationship to each other by linking each other, so that one patent document can be browsed and another patent document can be directly linked by a link.

In summary, the process of retrieving a patent document includes a search operation for extracting a search result, which is a set of a certain amount of patent documents, using a search expression for a patent document, and a reading operation for directly checking the contents of a patent document belonging to the search result set. It is a repeating process.

On the other hand, as described above, the trajectory of operations repeated to search for a patent document is important for a user who frequently searches. A user who frequently uses a search often searches a specific field frequently, and often a patent document or a search expression overlaps. Therefore, a user who frequently uses the search will be able to perform a more effective search if he has a record that he has searched in the past.

For example, a user may need to search again for a technology that is similar to the technical field in which the search was performed in the past. At this time, if you know the various search terms or search expressions used in the past, and further, if you know which search terms are the high hit rate, or if you know how many results are found when using the search expression, search more without trial and error Will be able to perform

In particular, if the trajectory of the retrieval operation or the retrieval operation can be known, it is possible to know which patent documents are in-depth and the level to which the patent documents have been read. The trajectory of the browsing work can also improve the search performance.

In addition, if you write a note that the user judged during the work during the retrieval work or reading work, it will be very useful information when performing the work again later.

In conclusion, if the user can know the trajectories as well as the above-described work performed in the past and leave a memo on the work on the trajectory, the repetitive reading operation can be more easily performed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the problems described above, and a work log system and method of a patent document for recording and memo information on a unit operation for a user terminal accessing a patent search system to search or view a patent document. To provide.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a work log system and method of a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system to share work information searched or browsed with other users, and shows work information in a calendar format.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a work log method of a patent document for recording information on a unit work for the user terminal connected to the patent search system to search or view a patent document, and at the same time the unit work is performed An extraction step of extracting and storing the job information of the unit job; And a memo step of adding a memo to the extracted work information of the unit work.

In addition, in the work log method of a patent document, in the work log method of a patent document in which the user terminal connects to a patent search system and records information on the unit work of searching for or viewing the patent document, the unit work is performed. An extraction step of extracting and storing the job information of the unit work at the same time as this is performed; And a memo step of adding a memo to the extracted work information of the unit work.

In addition, the present invention is a job log method of the patent document, characterized in that the unit operation is a search operation or a browsing operation.

In addition, the present invention is a work log method of a patent document, wherein the extracting step, if the unit job is a search job, the job information to be extracted includes a search formula, the number of search results, the search time, In the case of the browsing operation, the extraction of the operation information includes patent document identification information, a reading form, and a viewing time.

In addition, the present invention is a method for log work of the patent document, wherein the extracting step is characterized in that for storing the job information of the extracted unit work in a folder format.

In addition, according to the present invention, in the job log method of the patent document, the folder storing the job information counts the number of stored job information, and counts the number of the job information of the subfolder.

In another aspect, the present invention is a work log method of a patent document, characterized in that the method further comprises a sharing step of sharing the work information of the extracted unit work with other users.

In addition, the present invention is a work log method of a patent document, wherein the sharing step is to send the work information to be shared by another user's mail, the work information is shared when the user who receives the mail accepts the sharing It is done.

In addition, in the work log method of the patent document, the sharing step is characterized in that the sharing period of the work information to be shared with the sharing mail, the work information is shared only during the sharing period.

In another aspect, the present invention is a work log method of a patent document, wherein the sharing step is characterized in that to share the work information by folder.

In another aspect, the present invention provides a work log method of a patent document, the method further comprises an output step of transmitting and showing the job information of the extracted unit work to the user terminal.

In another aspect, the present invention is a job log method of a patent document, wherein the output step is characterized in that to display the job information of the extracted unit work in a calendar format.

In addition, the present invention is a job log method of a patent document, wherein the output step is characterized in that showing only one or more kinds of the job information of the retrieval operation, the operation information of the browsing operation, the memo.

In another aspect, the present invention is a job log method of a patent document, wherein the output step is characterized in that the job information of the extracted unit work is shown in the form of an associated structure.

In addition, the present invention provides a work log method of a patent document, wherein the associative structure has the shape of a tree structure, the job information of the retrieval job is configured by the root node, and the job information of the browsing job is configured by the nodes within the tree. It features.

In addition, in the work log method of the patent document, in the association structure, the node of the operation information of the browsing operation is divided into an identification information node and a browsing type node, and the upper node and the lower node of the browsing type node are the tasks. It is characterized by the relative order.

The present invention also relates to a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the work log method of the patent document.

The present invention also relates to a work log system of a patent document for recording information on a unit work in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system to search or view a patent document. A job extraction unit for extracting and storing information; And a memo writing unit for adding a memo to the extracted work information of the unit work.

In addition, the present invention is a job log system of the patent document, characterized in that the unit operation is a retrieval operation or a browsing operation.

In addition, the present invention is a job log system of a patent document, wherein the job extracting unit, if the unit job is a search job, extracts the job information including the search expression, the number of search results, the search time, If it is a reading operation, it is characterized by extracting work information including patent document identification information, reading form, and reading time.

In another aspect, the present invention, the work log system of the patent document, the work log system is characterized in that it further comprises a sharing unit for sharing the work information of the extracted unit work with other users.

In another aspect, the present invention is a job log system of the patent document, wherein the sharing unit transmits the job information to be shared by another user's mail, the job information is shared when the user who receives the mail accepts the sharing do.

In addition, in the work log system of the patent document, the sharing unit transmits the sharing period of the job information to be shared together with the sharing mail, and the job information is shared only during the sharing period.

In another aspect, the present invention, the work log system of the patent document, the work log system is characterized in that it further comprises an output unit for transmitting and showing the job information of the extracted unit work to the user terminal.

In addition, the present invention is a job log system of the patent document, wherein the output unit is characterized in that for displaying the job information of the extracted unit work in the calendar format.

In another aspect, the present invention is a job log system of the patent document, wherein the output unit is characterized in that for showing the job information of the extracted unit work in the form of associative structure.

In addition, the present invention is a work log system of a patent document, wherein the associative structure has the shape of a tree structure, the work information of the search operation is composed of the root node, and the work information of the browsing operation is composed of the nodes in the tree. It features.

In addition, in the work log system of the patent document, in the association structure, the node of the job information of the browsing operation is divided into an identification information node and a browsing type node, and the upper node and the lower node of the browsing type node are the tasks. It is characterized by the relative order.

In addition, the present invention relates to a user terminal connected to the network and the patent retrieval system for recording the information on the operation of viewing the patent document, the network, comprising: a first step of requesting a unit operation to the patent retrieval system; Creating a memo in the work information of the unit work, and requesting the patent search system to add the memo to the work information; A third step of cumulatively repeating the first step or the second step; And requesting the job log system to receive the job information of the unit job to which all or some memos up to the third step have been added.

As described above, according to the work log system and method of the patent document according to the present invention, by automatically recording a series of work flows for the user to view the patent document, the user himself, without the additional hassle of recording the work, The effect which can grasp | ascertain this work flow after the fact is acquired.

In addition, according to the work log system and method of the patent document according to the present invention, by using the user's own memo to store and further refer to the work history of other 'man', it is possible to quickly search without trial and error using past work Achievable effects are obtained.

In addition, according to the work log system and method of the patent document according to the present invention, by viewing the extracted work information in the form of a calendar or associative structure, it is possible to see the trajectory of the entire work for searching or reading the patent document at a glance. Obtained.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, specific contents for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In addition, in describing this invention, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and the repeated description is abbreviate | omitted.

First, an example of the configuration of the entire system for implementing the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of an entire system for implementing the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, in order to implement the present invention, the entire system includes a patent search system 21, a patent document DB 22, an interface 23, a user terminal 10, a network 11, and a work log system ( 30, the job log DB (40).

The interface 23 is a device that connects the user terminal 10 and the patent retrieval system 21 or the job log system 30, and is a server that processes the service requirements (or service transactions) of the user. In one example, the interface 23 may be implemented as a web server. In addition, the interface 23 is connected to the user terminal 10 via the network 11.

In general, a user first connects to a web server in order to receive specific services on the Internet. When the web server needs to execute an application in response to a service request of a user, the web server requests a transaction processing of the service from the application server.

The patent search system 21 and the job log system 30 correspond to a kind of application server. Accordingly, the interface 23 receives a search or browsing service request (a unit work request or a unit work transaction) from the user terminal 10 and transmits the service request (unit work request) to the patent search system 21 or a work log system ( 30) for processing. In addition, the interface 23 receives the result and transmits the result to the user terminal 10.

Accordingly, the patent search system 21 or the work log system 30 is connected to the user terminal 10 via the interface 23 and the network 11. However, hereinafter, for convenience of description, the description of the interface 23 and the network 11 will be omitted when describing the interaction between the systems 21 and 30 and the user terminal 10.

The patent document DB 22 is a database for storing patent documents. Patent documents refer to published patent publications or registered patent publications. Patent documents may include not only patents but also utility models. The utility model differs only in the contents of the rights, and thus the patent publication and the search item are almost the same. Therefore, when referring to the patent document below, the utility model publication is also included. On the other hand, the patent document DB includes both domestic or foreign patent publications. That is, all patent publications issued by the respective patent offices or WIPOs are covered.

The patent retrieval system 21 refers to a conventional patent retrieval system. The patent search system 21 is connected to the user terminal 10 and the network 11. However, the present invention can be applied even when the user terminal 10 is directly connected to the patent search system 21.

The patent search system 21 performs operations in a manner in response to a request of the user terminal 10. The work performed by the patent search system 21 for one request requested by the user terminal 10 will be referred to as unit work below. In addition, the process until the patent search system 21 performs the unit work requested by the user terminal 10 will be referred to as a unit work transaction. That is, the unit work transaction includes matters that the user terminal 10 requests from the patent search system 21 in addition to the unit work performed by the patent search system 21.

The user terminal 10 is a terminal having a normal computing function used by the user. Examples of the user terminal 10 include a PC, a notebook computer, a netbook, a PDA, a mobile device, and the like, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted since its configuration and operation principle are well-known techniques commonly used in the art. The user terminal 10 displays a result of the unit search performed by the patent search system 21 on a screen of an output device such as a liquid crystal display screen or a monitor. The result of the unit job displayed on the screen of the user terminal 10 will be referred to as a job result page (or screen). The unit work, such as the original text view of the patent document, downloads the original text and shows the original text in a separate software, but this can also be viewed as meaning a work result page (or screen) in a broad sense.

On the other hand, the user performs a job such as searching or reading through the user terminal (10). Therefore, hereinafter, a description of a user performing a task means a task performed by the user terminal 10. In addition, the reference numeral 10 will be attached to the member in addition to the user terminal.

Meanwhile, the work result page may include a link or a command button so that a user may request another unit work. The user may press the link or command button to transfer the next unit work to the patent search system 21. You will be asked. This request causes a new unit-work transaction. In addition, when the unit task is performed, a new task result page will be transmitted to the user terminal 10 and shown. In the above cases, the work order between unit operations is determined by a link or a command button.

In other words, if the unit job B performed by the link or the command button of the job result page by the unit job A is the unit job B, the unit job B is the job that occurs after the unit job A.

The link or command button may also include a command for viewing a previous screen or a previous page. An example of the work result page displayed by the search request on the user terminal 10 will be described. The work result page will display a list of patent documents. The user selects and reads one patent document from the work result page and then returns to the work result page to select and view another patent document. In the above case, the two operations for viewing the patent document should be regarded as the unit operations performed after the unit operation by the previous search request.

In addition, one patent document may have other patent documents related to itself, such as a citation relationship or a family relationship. In this case, while viewing a patent document, other related patent documents can be viewed. For example, while viewing the patent document A, it is possible to view the patent document B which is a family of the patent document A. At this time, the reading work (or unit work) of the patent document A is a patent document immediately before the reading work (or unit work) of the patent document B. On the other hand, for this purpose, the patent search system 21 should provide a link to view the patent document B on the page for viewing the patent document A.

The relations between patent documents include not only the bibliographic relations of patent documents such as citation relations and family relations, but also relations provided by the patent retrieval system itself.

The work log system 30 captures unit work transactions between the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21 to extract and store information on the unit work. That is, the user terminal 10 requests unit work and captures that the patent search system 21 responds to the request.

On the other hand, the capture includes the act of generating and recording or storing log information. Transaction capture of unit operations can be implemented in various ways using conventional techniques.

For example, a web page or a request command exchanged between the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21 may be taken in the middle to be analyzed to extract necessary information. As another example, a program module for recording (logging) a job may be added to the user interface 23 to extract information about a unit job. As another example, the patent retrieval system 21 itself can be implemented by recording a job log and reading the recorded job log. The first method has the advantage that it does not need to change the patent search system 21, but falls in terms of efficiency, and the last method has the disadvantage that the patent search system 21 has to be changed to create a necessary work log, but it is most efficient. The second approach has the advantages and disadvantages in between.

As shown in FIG. 1, the work log system 30 and the patent retrieval system 21 are logically separated, but the user terminal 10 is implemented to be provided as a service through the interface 23. . Users can use the two systems together to increase the efficiency of the search. That is, when performing a patent search, it may be used by referring to the past work records, or the related work documents may be directly viewed or searched while viewing the past work records.

Finally, the job log DB 40 will be described.

The job log DB 40 is a search formula DB 41 for storing a search expression which is job information of a search job, a memo DB 42 for storing a memo, and a browsing log DB 43 for storing job information of a browsing job. , The association structure DB (44) for storing the association structure. However, the configuration of the work log DB 40 is only a preferred embodiment, and in developing a specific device, in consideration of the ease and efficiency of access and retrieval, it can be configured in a different structure by the database construction theory.

Next, a search log method of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a search log method of the patent document.

As shown in Figure 2, the operation log method of the patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention is an extraction step (S10) for extracting and storing the operation information of the unit operation at the same time the unit operation is performed; And it is divided into a memo step (S20) for adding a memo to the operation information of the extracted unit work. Also, preferably, the method further includes a sharing step S30 of sharing the extracted work information of the unit work with other users. Also, preferably, the method further includes an output step S40 of transmitting and displaying the extracted job information of the unit job to the user terminal.

First, when a user terminal requests and the patent search system 21 performs a unit work for searching or reading a patent document, the job log system 30 performs the unit work and simultaneously extracts and stores work information of the unit work. (S10).

As described above, the unit work is a process in which the patent search system 21 transmits a work result (or work result screen or page) for the request to the work request of the user terminal. The object to extract the work information in this process is the work request page of the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21 transmits the work result page. In particular, the work request of the user terminal 10 can be analyzed to know the unit work immediately before the unit work, and the information on the current unit work can be obtained by analyzing the work result page.

On the other hand, unit work is classified into a search job and a browsing job.

The search operation is to request a list of patent documents that satisfy the search expression by using the search expression. In general, the list of patent documents shows only basic information about patent documents. For example, it is basic information which can identify a patent document, such as identification information of a patent document, name of invention, and publication date. The list of patent documents is a search result by a search operation. For reference, the identification information of the patent document refers to a number that can identify the patent document, such as the application number, publication number, registration number of the patent document.

FIG. 3A shows an example of a screen for searching using a search formula, and FIG. 3B shows an example of results of a search using the search formula of FIG. 3A.

On the other hand, the viewing operation is to view the search results (or the list of patent documents) as described above and to select the desired patent document from among them to view the contents of the selected document. There are several forms of reading that show the content of the document. In particular, the patent retrieval system 21 often supports various types of browsing. The most representative is a form that shows the full text of a patent document. The original text is of the same type as any patent retrieval system. In addition, there may be a detailed view form that shows the key points of the patent document, for example, the identification information of the patent document, the country, document type, applicant, inventor, summary, representative drawing, IPC classification, representative claim. In addition, there may be a form showing only a part of a patent document such as a claim, a summary, and a representative drawing. That is, the view form includes a detail view, the original view, the family view, the citation view, the claim view, the specification view.

4 is a view illustrating a patent document viewing by a detailed view.

The immediately preceding unit task refers to the unit task immediately before the unit task is performed. As described above, if the unit work is performed by a link or command button of the work result page, the unit work requesting the work result page becomes the previous unit work.

For example, a job result page by one search job will have a list of patent documents of the search results. If a request is made to view the original text of one of the patent documents, the immediately preceding unit work of the read operation becomes a search operation.

As another example, there are a number of links or command buttons that can be viewed in various reading forms on the work result page by one reading operation A. FIG. At this time, the user presses one of the links or the command button to request the browsing operation B. Then, the work result page for the browsing job B is displayed. Then, returning to the operation result page of the browsing operation A, press another link type or command button. So we request a lookup job C and see another result page. In the above case, the other two reading operations B and C are considered to have been performed after the previous reading operation A. In the case of the above example, the identification information of the patent document does not change when one patent document is viewed in another reading form. That is, the same patent document is viewed in a different reading form.

On the other hand, a patent document may have family information such as priority claims, divided applications, or citation information such as cited patent documents and cited patent documents. As a result of the reading operation of the patent document, the work result page may include the above family information or citation information, and there may be a link or a command button for requesting reading of the information. When the user presses the link or command button, the related other patent document is read. In such a case, even if the previous unit work is a reading work, the identification information of the patent document is changed. That is, to view other patent documents.

In summary, the unit work immediately before the reading operation may be a searching operation or a reading operation, and the patent documents read in the reading operation may be the same or may be different patent documents. Checking what the unit work is immediately before the unit work may be determined by which task result page the user requested the unit work. In other words, the unit task that requested the task result page when the unit task is requested is the previous unit task.

On the other hand, since the unit job is divided into a search job and a browsing job, different job information is extracted and stored for each. That is, if the unit job is a search job, the job information to be extracted includes a search expression, the number of search results, and a search time. If the unit job is a browsing job, the job information to be extracted is a patent document identification information, a reading form, Include viewing time.

When a unit task is a search task, the search expression must be saved. This is because, if two search tasks have the same search expression, the search tasks may be regarded as substantially the same. The items that can be stored in addition to the search expression are the number of patent documents (or the number of search results) searched by the search expression. Search time (or search date). On the other hand, the search time is also an element that distinguishes substantially the same search operation. That is, even if two search tasks having the same search expression are substantially the same, they can be distinguished by the search time.

On the other hand, when reading, the identification information and reading form of the patent document read must be stored. In addition, the viewing time can be stored. This is because if the two reading operations have the same identification information and reading form in the patent document, the reading operations can be regarded as the same. That is, the patent document of the same reading form is seen twice. And it is the viewing time which distinguishes the two reading operations. That is, although the patent document of the same reading type can be seen many times, each reading time is different.

In addition, the job information of the extracted unit work is stored in a folder format.

As described above, although the job information is automatically extracted and stored when the unit job is performed, the job information of the search job or the browsing job designated by the user (or at the request of the user terminal) may be stored.

As shown in Fig. 5A, as an example, (1) shows storing a search expression which is job information of a retrieval job, and (2) shows storing job information of a browsing job.

(2) of FIG. 5A stores job information on a search result page. The search result page is the result of a search operation, but since a part of the search result is shown, it can be seen that the reading operation is performed on some of the patent documents shown.

For example, the reading form at this time may be divided into “view search results”. If the total number of search results (or the number of search results) is 1,000, and 50 items are displayed on the search result page, the 50 patent documents are read in the form of "view search results", and the remaining 950 The gun is considered to have not been inspected.

As shown in FIG. 5B, a folder may include a plurality of job information and may include a plurality of subfolders.

At this time, the folder storing the job information counts the number of stored job information, including the number of job information of its own subfolder. In the example of Fig. 5B, in the dotted line folder, the upper folder has three lower folders. The three subfolders contain 9, 4, and 10 job information, respectively. The upper folder does not have its own task information, but it is counted as having 23 (9 + 4 + 10) task information by adding up the task information of its sub folder.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the number of job information is displayed in a folder.

On the other hand, the stored job information and folders are similar to the method of managing files in the conventional folder. Therefore, the job log system 30 provides a function of moving, deleting, copying, or moving, deleting, or copying job information. Since implementing such a function is well known in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the job log system 30 adds a memo to the job information of the unit job extracted at the request of the user terminal 10 (S20).

Memo can be input in addition to the task information for each unit task. 6A illustrates writing a memo in a search operation on a search result page. That is, the user 10 may directly input a memo associated with a search expression that is job information of a search job.

In particular, since the memo is information added to the job information of the unit job, it is subject to the added job information. For example, even though the memo may be separately managed, when the work information is deleted, copied, moved, etc., it is preferable that the memo is deleted, copied, moved, etc. together.

Next, the work log system 30 may share the work information of the unit work extracted at the request of the user terminal 10 with other users (S30). Preferably, the job information is shared by folder.

To this end, the user 10 transmits work information to be shared by another user's mail, and when the user who receives the mail accepts the sharing, the work information is shared. At this time, the sharing period of the job information to be shared may be transmitted together with the sharing mail. The sharing period is a period to share, after which the sharing is released.

As shown in FIG. 7A, the user 10 selects a folder to be shared, and transmits a sharing request to the mail of the counterpart user. At this time, enter the password. In addition, a sharing period may be set at the lower right of FIG. 7A.

As shown in FIG. 7B, the accepting method is a method of accessing the patent log system 30 to input an e-mail address and the password.

One example of the above is not limited thereto. For example, as another embodiment, a sharing request may be made in the form of an internal note and the sharing may be made immediately upon accepting the sharing on the note.

Next, the job log system 30 transmits and displays the job information of the extracted unit job to the user terminal (S40).

The work log system 30 may display work information on the user terminal 10 in the form of a recent information view, a full view, a calendar view, an association structure view, and the like.

The latest information view shows the latest work time by the work time (viewing time or searching time) of the work information. For example, the "recent search expression list" on the right side of FIG. 5A is an example of the latest information view for the job information of the search job. In addition, "Recent detail view / original text" on the right side of Fig. 6B is an example of the latest information view for the job information of the browsing operation.

Full view is the way to view the work information in full screen. For example, Fig. 5C is an example of an overall view of job information of a retrieval job. However, as shown in FIG. 6B, the entire view of the job information of the search job and the browse job may be shown at once. In addition, as shown in FIG. 5C, the job information can be found and viewed by the folder, or as shown in FIG.

The calendar type view can selectively view the corresponding work information by date or time by the calendar. For example, as shown in FIG. 8A, a calendar is placed on the right side of a screen (or web page) where a search expression, search information, search information, a memo, and the like, which are job information of a search job, can be selected to select a date from the calendar. The job information of the date is displayed. In addition, as shown in FIG. 8B, when a date is selected on a specific date list of the detailed list, job information of the corresponding date appears.

In addition, only information corresponding to any one or more types of job information of a search job, job information of a browsing job, and a memo may be shown. For example, as shown in Figure 6b, it can also show all the job information, the job information corresponding to the type according to the selection of "recent search expression", "recent detail view / original", "memory" at the top You can only show it.

The associative structure type is a way of showing in tree structure according to the work order of unit work.

Hereinafter, the association structure format will be described in more detail.

First, a method of configuring a reading operation according to an embodiment of the present invention in an associative structure will be described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10. The method of organizing the browsing work in an associative structure is a method of organizing the work relationship of the work order (the order according to the working time) between the unit work in a tree structure.

The method of constructing the associative structure is a step of constructing a work relationship for a work order (order according to work time) between unit work in a tree structure. The basic method is as follows. Each unit task is made into each node of the tree structure, and the parent node of the unit task node becomes the node of the previous unit task. A unit task without a node for the previous unit task becomes the root node.

As shown in FIG. 9, the method for constructing the reading operation according to the present invention in a tree structure includes (c1) determining that the patent document to be viewed in the reading operation is the root node if the unit operation immediately before the reading operation is a searching operation. (S31), determining a reading type of the reading operation as a lower node of the root node (S32); (c2) if the immediately preceding unit operation of the reading operation is a reading operation, and the patent document viewed by the reading operation is the same as the patent document viewed in the previous reading operation, setting the reading operation as a lower node of the immediately reading operation (S33) ); (c3) If the immediately preceding unit operation of the browsing operation is a browsing operation and the patent document viewed by the browsing operation is different from the patent document viewed in the previous browsing operation, the identification information of the viewed patent document is transferred to the lower node of the previous browsing operation. In step S34, the reading mode of the reading operation is divided into steps S35 of identifying identification information of the read patent document.

In the above embodiment, the tree structure is created only for the browsing operation during the unit operation. In another embodiment, a tree structure may be formed by including a search operation. At this time, the search operation is unconditionally a root node, and if the unit operation immediately before the browsing operation is a search operation, the upper node of the browsing operation is a search operation.

Again, a detailed description will be given of how to create a tree structure only for reading operations during unit operations. There are three cases in which the browsing work has a relationship with the previous unit work. That is, (1) when the previous unit job is a retrieval job, (2) when the previous unit job is a reading job, and when the same patent document is read as the patent document read in the last reading job, (3) the last unit job is read This is a case where a patent document and another patent document viewed in a previous reading operation are read.

In each of the three cases, the method of adding a node to the tree structure is different. In each case, the tree structure of FIG. 10A will be described as an example. First, in the case of (1), the patent document read in the reading operation is set as the root node, and the reading form of the reading operation is set as a lower node of the root node. On the other hand, nodes are divided into two types in the tree structure. One is identification information of a patent document, and the other is reading form. For example, if a detailed view of a patent document having an application number "10-2007-003456" is viewed on a work result page of a search operation, as shown in FIG. 10A, the application number "10-2007-003456" is a root node. And the reading form "details" becomes a subnode of the application number node.

In the case of (2), the reading mode of the reading operation is defined as a lower node of the reading type node of the immediately preceding reading operation. For example, the immediately preceding reading operation is a unit operation in which the "detail view" of the patent document of the application number "10-2007-003456" is read, and the family view is read in this unit operation. In this case, as shown in FIG. 10A, the "family" node, which is a reading form of the browsing operation, becomes a subnode of the "detailed" node.

In the case of (3), the identification information of the viewed patent document is defined as a lower node of the reading mode node of the immediately preceding reading operation, and the reading mode of the reading operation is determined as a lower node of the identification information of the reading patent document. For example, the last viewing operation is the family view, where the detailed view of application number "10-2005-028856" was read. In this case, as shown in Fig. 4, the application number "10-2005-028856" becomes a sub node of the "family" node of the last reading operation, and the reading type "detail" becomes a sub node of the application number node.

The job information of the reading operation is shown in the form of a tree composed of nodes, wherein the node has a different shape by dividing the identification information node and the reading type node of the patent document. That is, as shown in Figure 10a, the application number node is represented by a rectangle, the browsing node is shown as a rounded rectangle.

Next, the tree structure of the working relationship circulated according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 10B. That is, in the step (c3), when the reading form of the identification information of the read patent document already exists in the tree structure, the reading form node of the immediately preceding reading operation is connected to the identification information node of the existing patent document.

As described above, the reading operation is distinguished due to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document. However, there are cases where the same reading form of the same patent document is read many times. As shown in FIG. 10B, the "Family View" was read again in the "Detail View" reading operation of the application number "10-2000-056034". And in the family viewing work, the "summary view" of the application number "10-2005-028856" was read. At this time, the browsing operation for viewing the "summary view" of the application number "10-2005-028856" is a unit operation that has already been performed previously. Therefore, it already exists in the tree structure. At this time, as shown by the arrow R of Figure 10b, the connection to the application number "10-2005-028856" node.

As another example, the node may be connected to a node in the form of a "summary" view of the application number instead of the application number "10-2005-028856" node. However, it would be more likely to know through the repeated reading work than to see which type of reading repeatedly, but what patent document of which application number. Therefore, the former embodiment is more preferable than the latter embodiment.

In order to record the repetitive reading as described above, the reading time can be recorded in the reading type node of the reading operation. That is, if there are K reading records in the reading mode node of the reading operation, it can be seen that the patent document of the reading type is repeatedly read K times.

On the other hand, in the case of (1) and (2) of the three cases in which the browsing operation described above has a relationship with the previous unit operation, when the browsing type node of the browsing operation already exists, Only read time is added. In the case of (1) and (2), if the identification information node of the patent document exists, but the reading mode node of the reading operation does not exist, the reading mode of the reading operation as a lower node of the identification information node of the patent document Create a node.

In summary, in step (c1) or step (c2), when the reading type node of the identification information of the read patent document already exists in the tree structure, the reading time is added to the reading type node, and If the identification information node of the patent document already exists in the tree structure, and the browsing type node of the identification information of the retrieved patent document does not exist in the tree structure, add the browsing type node as a sub node of the identification information node. .

11 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting a work relationship of a unit work in a tree structure according to the present invention. That is, FIG. 11 shows the above-described FIG. 10A or 10B as an actual screen. As shown in Fig. 11, the identification information node of the patent document is indicated by a rectangular box, and the browsing type node is indicated by a circle.

Next, a job log system of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in Figure 12, the job log system 30 of the patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention is composed of a job extraction unit 31 and a memo writing unit (32). Preferably, it may be configured by further adding the sharing unit 33. In addition, the output unit 34 may be further added.

And it may further include a job log DB (40) for storing data. The job log DB 40 may be implemented as an internal component of the job log system 30, or may be implemented as a separate database to be linked to the job log system 30.

The job extracting unit 31 extracts and stores the job information of the unit work at the same time the unit work is performed. At this time, the unit operation is a search operation or a reading operation. In particular, the job extraction unit 31 extracts job information including a search formula, the number of search results, and a search time if the unit job is a search job, and if the unit job is a browsing job, the patent document identification information and reading. It extracts work information including form and reading time.

The memo writing unit 32 extracts and stores the work information of the unit work at the same time the unit work is performed.

The sharing unit 33 shares the extracted work information of the unit work with other users. In particular, the sharing unit 33 transmits work information to be shared by another user's mail, and when the user who receives the mail accepts the sharing, the work information is shared. In addition, the sharing unit 33 transmits the sharing period of the job information to be shared together with the sharing mail, and the job information is shared only during the sharing period.

The output unit 34 transmits and displays the extracted job information of the unit job to the user terminal. In particular, the output unit 34 shows the job information of the extracted unit work in a calendar format.

In addition, the output unit 34 shows the work information of the extracted unit work in the form of associative structure. In particular, the associative structure has the shape of a tree structure, the job information of the retrieval job is configured as the root node, and the job information of the browsing job is configured by the nodes in the tree. In the association structure, the node of the job information of the browsing operation is divided into an identification information node and a browsing type node, and the upper node and the lower node of the browsing type node are related by the work order.

The omitted portion of the description of the work log system of the patent document refers to the description of the work log method of the patent document described above.

As mentioned above, although the invention made by this inventor was demonstrated concretely according to the said Example, this invention is not limited to the said Example and can be variously changed in the range which does not deviate from the summary.

The present invention can be applied to the field of searching for patent documents such as patent publications. In particular, it can be applied to the development of a patent search system that automatically records the jobs searched by a user searching for a patent document so that the user can search more efficiently by referring to the past jobs searched by the user. .

1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of an entire system for implementing the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a work log method of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a search operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a browsing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a folder operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a job to take notes according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a sharing job according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a diagram illustrating a screen showing job information in a calendar format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a reading operation in an associative structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

10 is a diagram illustrating an association structure of a work relationship according to an embodiment of the present invention.

11 is a diagram illustrating a screen showing job information in the form of an association structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

12 is a block diagram of a configuration of a work log system of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: user terminal 11: network

21: Patent search system 22: Patent document DB

23: user interface

30: job log system 31: job extraction unit

32: memo writing unit 33: sharing unit

34: output unit 40: job log DB

41: search expression DB 42: memo DB

43: browse log DB 44: association structure DB

Claims (1)

In the work log method of a patent document in which a user terminal connects to a patent search system and records information on a unit operation for searching or reading a patent document. An extraction step of extracting and storing the operation information of the unit operation while performing the unit operation; And And a memo step of adding a memo to the extracted work information of the unit work.

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