Granted Patent B2

US 12,271,691 · App. 18/600,887 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Inventor: Lewis C. Lee (Seattle, WA)

Assignee: Moat Metrics, Inc.

G06F40/253G06F16/93G06F40/30G06F2216/11

Abstract

Claims (80)

1. A method comprising:

generating noun phrases for a patent claim;

generating a trained machine learning model configured to identify elements of patent claims, the trained machine learning model trained on a document corpus associated with the patent claim;

analyzing the noun phrases to identify an element of the patent claim, the element comprising a plurality of syntactically related concepts in the patent claim, the element being one of a plurality of elements of the patent claim, and the element including words, wherein the analyzing is performed utilizing the trained machine learning model;

generating, based at least partly on the element, a search string that includes one or more of the words of the element;

obtaining, utilizing the search string, a plurality of additional patent documents, the plurality of additional patent documents being classified according to a classification and the plurality of additional patent documents including a first set of additional patent documents having a first priority date before a priority date of a patent document associated with the patent claim and a second set of additional patent documents having a second priority date after the priority date of the patent document;

determining a first frequency of occurrence of a word of the element of the patent claim in the first set of additional patent documents;

determining a second frequency of occurrence of the word of the element of the patent claim in the second set of additional patent documents;

analyzing the first frequency of occurrence of the word with respect to a first threshold frequency of occurrence; and

analyzing the second frequency of occurrence of the word with respect to a second threshold frequency of occurrence, the second threshold frequency of occurrence being greater than the first threshold frequency of occurrence.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing an analysis of reference words included in individual documents of the plurality of additional patent documents with respect to the words included in the element;

determining, based at least partly on the analysis, a portion of a document included in the plurality of additional patent documents that includes at least a portion of the words included in the element;

generating a mapping indicating an association between the element and the portion of the document; and

generating a user interface that includes the mapping.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein:

the user interface includes a claim chart including at least a first column, a second column, and at least one row;

the first column includes the element and the second column includes the portion of the document; and

the element and the portion of the document are disposed in a same row of the claim chart.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing an analysis of words included in portions of a seed document other than a claims portion of the seed document with respect to the words included in the element;

determining, based at least partly on the analysis, a portion of the seed document that includes at least a portion of the words included in the element;

generating a mapping indicating an association between the element and the portion of the seed document; and

generating a user interface that includes the mapping.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining a measure of validity of the patent claim based at least partly on the mapping; and

including the measure of validity in the user interface.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the patent claim is an independent claim;

identifying a dependent claim from a seed document;

determining a frequency of occurrence of one or more terms included in the dependent claim in individual documents of the plurality of additional patent documents; and

ranking the plurality of additional patent documents based at least in part on the frequency of occurrence of the one or more terms of the dependent claim within the individual documents.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising ranking the plurality of additional patent documents based at least in part on the first frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising ranking the plurality of additional patent documents according to a set of criteria that is different from one or more criteria used by a third-party searching authority to rank the plurality of additional patent documents.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the first frequency of occurrence of the word is less than the first threshold frequency of occurrence; and

determining that the second frequency of occurrence of the word is greater than the second threshold frequency of occurrence; and

wherein generating the search string includes adding the word to the search string based at least partly on the first frequency of occurrence of the word being less than the first threshold frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence of the word being greater than the second threshold frequency of occurrence.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a breadth value of the element based at least partly on the first frequency of occurrence of the word and the second frequency of occurrence of the word.

11. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

generating noun phrases for a patent claim;

generating a trained machine learning model configured to identify elements of patent claims, the trained machine learning model trained on a document corpus associated with the patent claim;

analyzing the noun phrases to identify an element of the patent claim, the element comprising a plurality of syntactically related concepts in the patent claim, the element being one of a plurality of elements of the patent claim, and the element including words, wherein the analyzing is performed utilizing the trained machine learning model;

generating, based at least partly on the element, a search string that includes one or more of the words of the element;

obtaining, utilizing the search string, a plurality of additional patent documents, the plurality of additional patent documents being classified according to a classification and the plurality of additional patent documents including a first set of additional patent documents having a first priority date before a priority date of a patent document associated with the patent claim and a second set of additional patent documents having a second priority date after the priority date of the patent document;

determining a first frequency of occurrence of a word of the element of the patent claim in the first set of additional patent documents;

determining a second frequency of occurrence of the word of the element of the patent claim in the second set of additional patent documents;

analyzing the first frequency of occurrence of the word with respect to a first threshold frequency of occurrence; and

analyzing the second frequency of occurrence of the word with respect to a second threshold frequency of occurrence, the second threshold frequency of occurrence being greater than the first threshold frequency of occurrence.

12. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

performing an analysis of reference words included in individual documents of the plurality of additional patent documents with respect to the words included in the element;

determining, based at least partly on the analysis, a portion of a document included in the plurality of additional patent documents that includes at least a portion of the words included in the element;

generating a mapping indicating an association between the element and the portion of the document; and

generating a user interface that includes the mapping.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein:

the user interface includes a claim chart including at least a first column, a second column, and at least one row;

the first column includes the element and the second column includes the portion of the document; and

the element and the portion of the document are disposed in a same row of the claim chart.

14. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

performing an analysis of words included in portions of a seed document other than a claims portion of the seed document with respect to the words included in the element;

determining, based at least partly on the analysis, a portion of the seed document that includes at least a portion of the words included in the element;

generating a mapping indicating an association between the element and the portion of the seed document; and

generating a user interface that includes the mapping.

15. The system of claim 14 , the operations further comprising:

determining a measure of validity of the patent claim based at least partly on the mapping; and

including the measure of validity in the user interface.

16. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

determining that the patent claim is an independent claim;

identifying a dependent claim from a seed document;

determining a frequency of occurrence of one or more terms included in the dependent claim in individual documents of the plurality of additional patent documents; and

ranking the plurality of additional patent documents based at least in part on the frequency of occurrence of the one or more terms of the dependent claim within the individual documents.

17. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising ranking the plurality of additional patent documents based at least in part on the first frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence.

18. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising ranking the plurality of additional patent documents according to a set of criteria that is different from one or more criteria used by a third-party searching authority to rank the plurality of additional patent documents.

19. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:

determining that the first frequency of occurrence of the word is less than the first threshold frequency of occurrence; and

determining that the second frequency of occurrence of the word is greater than the second threshold frequency of occurrence; and

wherein generating the search string includes adding the word to the search string based at least partly on the first frequency of occurrence of the word being less than the first threshold frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence of the word being greater than the second threshold frequency of occurrence.

20. The system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising determining a breadth value of the element based at least partly on the first frequency of occurrence of the word and the second frequency of occurrence of the word.

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