Online systems, methods, and interfaces for providing pharmaceutical information
An online pharmaceutical research system includes a server for providing user-configurable home pages, with each home page having a set of two or more portlets for different types of pharmaceutical data. The home page includes therapeutic filtration technology that enables the user to filter two or more of the portlets based, for example, on a therapeutic category.
1 . An online pharmaceutical research system comprising:
a set of two or more databases including a patent database, a scientific literature database; and a financial information database; and
a server operarably couplable to the databases and to first and second client access devices via a computer network, wherein the first and second client access devices are associated respectively with first and second users and the server is configured to provide first and second home pages to the first and second client access devices, wherein each of the home pages includes at least first and second portlets, with the first portlet configured to receive and present information from one of the patent, scientific literature, and financial information databases, and the second portlet another of the patent, scientific literature, and financial databases.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is operatively associated with a subscriber database including first and second preferences for the respective first and second users, and the first and second home pages are configured respectively according to the first and second preferences.
3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is configured to provide a plurality of home pages for each of the first and second users.
4 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a subscriber database associated with the server, wherein the subscriber database includes first and second records for the first and second users, with each record logically associating its corresponding user with a plurality of home page identifiers, and each of the home page identifiers is logically associated with a plurality of portlet identifiers or portlet configurations.
5 . A method comprising:
presenting a home page having a plurality of pharmaceutically related portlets;
receiving input from a user identifying a therapeutic category; and
in response to the identified therapeutic category modifying contents of two or more of the pharmaceutically related portlets.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein one of the portlets includes patent data and another of the portlets includes financial data.