Patent analyzing system
View Patent ↗A patent analyzing system for efficiently reviewing and analyzing a patent document (e.g. patent application, published patent document or patent). The patent analyzing system includes providing a patent document, wherein said patent document includes text data having a claims section, identifying a first element name within a first claim in said claims section, and emphasizing said first element name within said first claim.
1. A method of analyzing element names in a patent document, said method comprising the steps of:
providing a patent document, wherein said patent document includes text data having a claims section;
identifying a first element name within a first claim in said claims section, by performing an optical character recognition (OCR) process of the first element name wherein said step of identifying a first element name is comprised of identifying an antecedent basis word in said first claim and identifying element name text following said antecedent basis word using the optical character recognition (OCR), wherein said antecedent basis word is comprised of the word “a” or “an”; and
emphasizing, via a processor, said first element name within said first claim, wherein said step of emphasizing said first element name is comprised of one of the following: bolding, underlining, italics, highlighting, adding characters or coloring a font of said element name and inserting a first element number that corresponds to said first element name adjacent to said first element name, wherein said first element number is inserted after said first element name.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said first element number includes a first left character and a first right character on opposing sides of said first element number.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of emphasizing said first element name is comprised of emphasizing only a first usage of said first element name.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of emphasizing said first element name is comprised of emphasizing all usages of said first element name.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of emphasizing said first element name is comprised of emphasizing a first usage of said first element name in a first manner and emphasizing subsequent usages of said first element name in a second manner, wherein said first manner is different from said second manner.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of emphasizing said first element name is comprised of changing a font characteristic of said first element name compared to a normal font characteristic of said first claim.
7. The method of claim 1 , including the steps of: identifying a second element name within said first claim in said claims section; and emphasizing said second element name within said first claim.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein said second element name is emphasized differently from said first element name.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein said second element name has a font color different from a font color of said first element name.
10. The method of claim 1 , including the steps of: selecting said first element name; and displaying corresponding content from said patent document.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein said step of displaying corresponding content from said patent document is comprised of displaying a content image from said patent document.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein said content image is comprised of at least a portion of a figure from said patent document that includes a first element number that corresponds to said first element name.