Apparatus and method for automated and assisted patent claim mapping and expense planning
An apparatus and computer implemented method that include obtaining, into a computer, text of a patent, automatically finding and extracting, using the computer, a set of claim text from the patent text, identifying, using the computer, text of independent claims from the set of claim text, displaying in a first row on a computer monitor the text of the independent claims, automatically determining a plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases from the text of the independent claims, displaying in a second row on the computer monitor the text of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases, eliciting and receiving user input to specify a first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concepts phrases, and highlighting each occurrence of the specified first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases in a plurality of the independent claims displayed in the first row. A scope concept builder tool is also provided.
1. A method comprising:
receiving a textual representation of a set of patent claims;
processing word-by-word through each claim of the set of patent claims to identify sequences of words as a scope-concept phrase;
adding each scope-concept phrase to a set of scope-concept phrases;
identifying synonymous words from a thesaurus for words from each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases;
generating additional scope-concept phrases using the identified synonymous words;
adding the additional scope-concept phrases to the set of scope-concept phrases;
receiving product description text, wherein the product description text describes a product;
automatically classifying a first subset of the product description text as trivial text and classifying a second remaining subset of the product description text as non-trivial text;
identifying occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text;
determining an amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope concept-phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases based on the occurrences; and
displaying a graphical representation of the amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the occurrences includes stripping prefixes and suffixes from the words of each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases to identify similar base words in the non-trivial text.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying, in a graphical user interface, the synonymous words;
receiving a user selection of the synonymous words, via the graphical user interface; and
providing the user selection of the synonymous words as the identified synonymous words.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a measure of quality for each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases; and
displaying with the graphical representation the measure of quality for the occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the measure of quality is based on at least one of length of a respective scope-concept phrase or number of patent claims from the set of patent claims including the respective scope-concept phrase.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text includes identifying non-sequential occurrences of the words of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying, in a graphical user interface, the set of scope-concept phrases;
receiving a user selection of scope-concept phrases, via the graphical user interface; and
providing the user selection of the scope-concept phrases as the set of scope-concept phrases.
8. A system for identifying scope-concept phrases comprising:
at least one processor; and
memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
receive a textual representation of a set of patent claims;
process word-by-word through each claim of the set of patent claims to identify sequences of words as a scope-concept phrase;
add each scope-concept phrase to a set of scope-concept phrases;
identify synonymous words from a thesaurus for words from each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases;
generate additional scope-concept phrases using the identified synonymous words;
add the additional scope-concept phrases to the set of scope-concept phrases;
receive product description text, wherein the product description text describes a product;
automatically classify a first subset of the product description text as trivial text and classifying a second remaining subset of the product description text as non-trivial text;
identify occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text;
determine an amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope concept-phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases based on the occurrences; and
display a graphical representation of the amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein identifying the occurrences includes stripping prefixes and suffixes from the words of each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases to identify similar base words in the non-trivial text.
10. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions to:
display, in a graphical user interface, the synonymous words;
receive a user selection of the synonymous words, via the graphical user interface; and
provide the user selection of the synonymous words as the identified synonymous words.
11. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions to:
determine a measure of quality for each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases; and
display with the graphical representation the measure of quality for the occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the measure of quality is based on at least one of length of a respective scope-concept phrase or number of patent claims from the set of patent claims including the respective scope-concept phrase.
13. The system of claim 8 , wherein identifying occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text includes identifying non-sequential occurrences of the words of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases.
14. The system of claim 8 , further comprising instructions to:
display, in a graphical user interface, the set of scope-concept phrases;
receive a user selection of scope-concept phrases, via the graphical user interface; and
provide the user selection of the scope-concept phrases as the set of scope-concept phrases.
15. At least one computer readable medium including instructions for identifying scope-concept phrases that when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
receive a textual representation of a set of patent claims;
process word-by-word through each claim of the set of patent claims to identify sequences of words as a scope-concept phrase;
add each scope-concept phrase to a set of scope-concept phrases;
identify synonymous words from a thesaurus for words from each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases;
generate additional scope-concept phrases using the identified synonymous words;
add the additional scope-concept phrases to the set of scope-concept phrases;
receive product description text, wherein the product description text describes a product;
automatically classify a first subset of the product description text as trivial text and classifying a second remaining subset of the product description text as non-trivial text;
identify occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text;
determine an amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope concept-phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases based on the occurrences; and
display a graphical representation of the amount of the non-trivial text covered by each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases.
16. The at least one computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein identifying the occurrences includes stripping prefixes and suffixes from the words of each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases to identify similar base words in the non-trivial text.
17. The at least one computer readable medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions to:
display, in a graphical user interface, the synonymous words;
receive a user selection of the synonymous words, via the graphical user interface; and
provide the user selection of the synonymous words as the identified synonymous words.
18. The at least one computer readable medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions to:
determine a measure of quality for each scope-concept phrase of the set of scope-concept phrases; and
display with the graphical representation the measure of quality for the occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text.
19. The at least one computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the measure of quality is based on at least one of length of a respective scope-concept phrase or number of patent claims from the set of patent claims including the respective scope-concept phrase.
20. The at least one computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein identifying occurrences of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases in the non-trivial text includes identifying non-sequential occurrences of the words of each scope-concept phrase from the set of scope-concept phrases.