JP2002024284A - Patent information managing device, patent information totalizing and outputting method of the same device, and computer-readable recording medium with recorded patent information managing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate, totalize, and output retrieval results (bibliographic item) as to known literature databases and a retrieval result as to an application document database while minimizing the number of artificial operations. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a totalization part 26 which totalizes the retrieval results as to the known literature databases 2A-1 and 2A-2 in format for totalization having specific totalization items, a totalization result output part 27 which outputs the totalization result, a conversion part 23B which converts bibliographic data common to the totalization items of the retrieval result as to the application document database 2B-3 to the same order as the item order of the totalization items, and an integration part 25 which integrates the retrieval result having been converted and the retrieval results as to the known literature databases 2A-1 and 2A-2; and the totalization part 26 is enabled to totalize the application document retrieval result after the item order conversion or the retrieval results after the integration in the format for totalization.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to patent documents (patent information) such as published patent gazettes and patent application documents of companies.
Based on a database, for example, a patent information management device, a patent information tallying / outputting method in the patent information management device, and a computer readout recording a patent information management program suitable for use in researching and analyzing patent application status It relates to a possible recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, information on patents can be obtained from existing patent information retrieval systems or C
If the patent information (publicly known document data) obtained from a CD-ROM or the like is stored in a database, the necessary information can be obtained when necessary by searching this database. Can get better.

For example, if one wants to know the status of patent applications in a certain technical field, "applicant" + "IPC (technical field)" or "(specific term specific to the technical field)" is used as a search keyword. By giving the relevant information (information including bibliographic items (bibliographic data) such as application date, application number, publication date, publication number, applicant, inventor, name, IPC, etc.) as search results Can be.

If the search results obtained in this way are tabulated using a spreadsheet software or the like in a predetermined tabulation item (for example, a list format with the above-mentioned bibliographic data as a column) and displayed in a graph, It is easy to intuitively recognize the search result, and the analysis of the search result is also easy. Such a search system for patent information (publicly known document data) (hereinafter referred to as a publicly known data search system) is very important in conducting research and analysis of application status, product development / design based on it, and patent application. And is positioned as an important system. Here, the term "patent" has a broad meaning and includes other industrial property rights such as utility models, designs, and trademarks.

On the other hand, it is conceivable that a company or the like may separately create a database of information on patent applications filed by itself and operate it as a unique patent information management system, in addition to the above-mentioned known data search system. By using such a unique management system and the above-mentioned known data search system together, a more effective patent strategy can be realized.

[0006]

However, since each system as described above is usually operated independently, there are many inconveniences in actually finding an effective patent strategy efficiently. . For example, when it is desired to compare the application status in a specific technical field, each database is searched with a specific search keyword, and a search result is obtained separately in each system. Comparison cannot be performed efficiently.

Therefore, for example, if the search results obtained in the respective systems are integrated and the data can be totaled and displayed in a graph as in the above-described search system for known data, such comparison can be performed efficiently. However, the database of the patent information management system that is uniquely constructed cannot be simply integrated because the contents of the search results (bibliographic items) are also different from the contents of the search results by the known data search system. .

That is, the database of the unique patent information management system (hereinafter referred to as the unique application database) includes:
Of course, the database of the known data search system (hereinafter, referred to as
Data common to bibliographic items in a publicly known database) is also recorded, but bibliographic items (for example, reference numbers etc.) that have been uniquely set are also recorded. Since there is no such data, the contents are basically different from the recorded contents of the publicly known database, so that the number of items of the bibliographic data obtained as a search result and the arrangement (order) of the items are inconsistent.

For this reason, in order to integrate the search results obtained in each system and to summarize and display the data in a list form using spreadsheet software or the like as described above, such inconsistency in bibliographic data must be checked in advance. It needs to be resolved. Therefore, for example, it is conceivable to check the number of items and the arrangement (order) of the items of the search results obtained by each system before integration / aggregation and match them by an artificial operation.
The obtained search results are enormous depending on the search conditions, and such artificial work cannot cope very much.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and a search result (bibliographic information) of a publicly known database (publicly known document database) and an original application database while minimizing the number of human operations. A patent information management device, a method for counting and outputting patent information in a patent information management device, and a computer readable recording of a patent information management program, wherein the search result of (application document database) can be integrated and counted and output. It is intended to provide a recording medium.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, a patent information management apparatus according to the present invention (Claim 1) comprises a publicly known document database storing patent and known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. And an application document database in which patent application document data including at least bibliographic data of the above-mentioned patent publication data and at least bibliographic data in common are stored. And a known document database search unit that obtains bibliographic data of (i) as a result of searching for a known document, and m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data obtained by searching the application document database. The obtained application document database search unit and the known document search results obtained by the above-mentioned known document database search unit A tallying unit for tallying in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items, a tallying result output unit that outputs tallying results by this tallying unit, and at least one of application document search results obtained by the above-described application document database search unit A conversion unit for converting the bibliographic data common to the above-mentioned tally item into the same order as the item order of the tally item;
An integration unit that integrates the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit with the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit; The application document search result after the item order conversion by the unit or the search results after the integration by the integration unit can be totalized in the totaling format.

[0012] Further, a patent information management device (Claim 2) of the present invention comprises a publicly known document database storing a plurality of types of publicly known document data including bibliographic data, and a bibliographic data included in the patent and known document data. A patent information management device as a client device connected to a patent information management device as a server device that manages an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data. N types of search results for the literature database (n is an integer of 2 or more)
A communication control unit for receiving one or both of m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of application document search results, which are search results of a known document search application and an application document database, from a server device; A counting unit that counts the known document search results received by the control unit in a counting format having predetermined counting items for the known document search results, a tally result output unit that outputs the tally results by the tally unit, A conversion unit that converts at least the bibliographic data common to the above-mentioned total item in the application document search results received by the communication control unit into the same order as the item order of the total item; An integration unit that integrates the known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit; Application document retrieval result after entry permutation by, or are each search result after integration by the integration unit characterized in that it is configured to be counted in the above summary format.

[0013] Further, the patent information management device of the present invention (Claim 3) includes a publicly known document database storing a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and a bibliographic data included in the patent and known document data. And an application document database in which patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data are stored, and the above-mentioned publicly known document database is searched, and n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data are obtained as publicly known document search results. A publicly known document database retrieval unit, an application document database retrieval unit that retrieves the above application document database and obtains m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as application document retrieval results, and the above known document database The known document search result obtained by the search unit is added to the tabulation form having a predetermined tabulation item for the known document search result. A summarizing unit that sums up the data in a unit, a summarizing result output unit that externally outputs the summation result by the summarizing unit, and at least the above-mentioned summarizing items in the application document search results obtained by the application document database searching unit. A conversion unit that converts the bibliographic data of the item into the same order as the item order of the tabulation items, and the tabulation unit converts the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit into the tabulation format. It is characterized by being configured to be able to count.

Further, the patent information management device of the present invention (Claim 4) includes a publicly known document database storing patent and known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data; And a patent information management device as a client device connected to a patent information management device as a server device that manages an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data. Either n types (where n is an integer of 2 or more) of publicly known documents that are search results for the database or m types (where m is an integer of 2 or more) of application documents that are search results for the above application document database. A communication control unit for receiving one or both from the server device, and a known document search received by the communication control unit A tally unit for tallying results in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items for known document search results, a tally result output unit for outputting tally results by the tally unit, and an application received by the communication control unit. A conversion unit that converts at least the bibliographic data common to the aggregation item in the document search results into the same order as the item order of the aggregation item;
The invention is characterized in that the counting unit is configured to count the application document search results after the item order conversion by the conversion unit in the counting format.

[0015] Further, the patent information management device of the present invention (claim 5) includes a publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and a bibliographic data included in the patent-known document data. And an application document database in which patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data are stored, and a known document database that obtains n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of known document searches by searching the above-described known document database Search unit and m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) by searching the above application document database
An application document database search unit that obtains the application document search result of the above, and a tally that aggregates the known document search results obtained by the above-mentioned known document database search unit in a tallying format having predetermined tally items for the known document search results. Section, a tally result output section for externally outputting the tally result of the tally section, and a bibliographic data common to at least the tally item among the application document search results obtained by the application document database search section. A conversion unit that converts the document order into the same order as the item order, and an integration unit that integrates the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit. In addition to the above,
Each search result after integration by the integration unit is configured to be aggregated in the aggregation format.

Further, the patent information management device of the present invention (Claim 6) includes a publicly known document database storing a plurality of types of publicly known document data including bibliographic data, and a bibliographic data included in the patent and known document data. And a patent information management device as a client device connected to a patent information management device as a server device that manages an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data. Either n types (where n is an integer of 2 or more) of publicly known documents that are search results for the database or m types (where m is an integer of 2 or more) of application documents that are search results for the above application document database. A communication control unit for receiving one or both from the server device, and a known document search received by the communication control unit A tally unit for tallying results in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items for known document search results, a tally result output unit for outputting tally results by the tally unit, and an application received by the communication control unit. A conversion unit that converts at least the bibliographic data common to the above-mentioned tally item in the document search results into the same order as the item order of the tally item; a known document search result received by the communication control unit and the above-mentioned conversion unit And an integration unit that integrates the application document search results after the item order conversion by the integration unit, and the aggregation unit can aggregate the search results integrated by the integration unit in the aggregation format. It is characterized by having been done.

Here, the patent information management device according to any one of the first, third, and fifth aspects is characterized in that the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit and the application document database search unit are used. A communication control unit for transmitting at least one of the obtained application document search results to another patent information management device as a client device may be provided (claim 7).

The totaling result output unit may be configured as a graph processing unit for graphing and outputting the above totaling result. Furthermore, the patent information tallying / outputting method in the patent information management device of the present invention (claim 9) is a method of compiling a patent document database storing patent known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. In a patent information management apparatus provided with bibliographic data and a patent application database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data, n types (n is 2 Bibliographic data of m or more (m is an integer of 2 or more) as the application document search result of the application document database, or both, When performing tallying, the known document search results are collected into a collection having predetermined tally items for the known document search results. In the case of totaling the application document search results, at least the bibliographic data common to the above-mentioned total items in the application document search results is converted into the same order as the total item items. When the application document search results are aggregated in the above aggregation format and both of the above search results are aggregated, bibliographic data common to at least the above aggregation items in the application document search results is aggregated After converting the items into the same order as the item order and integrating the above-mentioned well-known document search results and the application document search results after the item order conversion, each of these search results is tabulated in the above tabulation format, and The feature is to output the total result.

Further, the patent information totaling / outputting method in the patent information management apparatus of the present invention (claim 10) is a method for collecting and outputting patent information including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. In a patent information management apparatus provided with bibliographic data of document data and an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data, the above application document database is searched and n types (n is Bibliographic data of 2 or more) is obtained as an application document search result, and m is obtained as a public document search result by searching at least the public document database among the application document search results.
After converting the bibliographic data common to a predetermined tabulation item for the type (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data into the same order as the item order of the tabulation item, the application document search result is converted into the above-mentioned tabulation item. It is characterized in that the data is totaled in a totaling format and the result of the totalization is output.

Further, the patent information totaling / outputting method in the patent information management apparatus according to the present invention (claim 11) includes a patent document database storing patent document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data; In a patent information management apparatus having bibliographic data of document data and an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data, the above databases are searched and n types (n is Bibliographic data of 2 or more integers) and m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data are obtained as publicly known document search results and application document search results, respectively. The bibliographic data common to the specified tabulation item for the item is converted into the same order as the item order of the tabulation item, and these publicly known documents are checked. Results After integrating the application document retrieval result after entry permutation aggregates each search result in aggregation format is characterized by outputting the counting result.

A computer-readable recording medium on which the patent information management program of the present invention is recorded (claim 12) stores a patent information management program for causing a computer to function as the following means. It is characterized by. M types (m is 2 or more) which are search results for an application document database that stores bibliographic data of patent known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data At least n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of the search results of the publicly known document database in which the patent and publicly known document data are stored among the application document search results of “integer”). Conversion means for converting the common bibliographic data into the same order as the item order of the tabulation items. Integration means for integrating the above-mentioned known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion means. The results are tabulated in the tabulation format having the tabulation items described above, and the output after the item order conversion by the above-mentioned conversion means is performed. Totaling means capable of totalizing the document search results or the respective search results after integration by the above-mentioned integrating means in the above-mentioned totaling format. Totaling result output means for outputting the totaling results by this totalizing means. Patent information management of the present invention A computer-readable recording medium on which the program is recorded (claim 13)
It is characterized in that a patent information management program for causing a computer to function as each of the following means is recorded.

M types (m is a search result) of an application document database in which patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data included in patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data At least a predetermined number of n (n is an integer of 2 or more) known document search results, which are search results of a known document database storing patent known document data, among application document search results of 2 or more integers Conversion means for converting the bibliographic data common to the tally item into the same order as the item order of the tally item. The above-mentioned known document search results are tallyed in a tallying format having the tally item, and the item order by the above-mentioned conversion means. Tabulation means capable of tabulating converted application document search results in the tabulation format described above. A computer-readable recording medium on which the patent information management program of the present invention is recorded is recorded by a patent information management program for causing a computer to function as the following means. It is characterized by being.

M types (m is a search result) of an application document database storing patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data and bibliographic data of patent known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data At least a predetermined number of n (n is an integer of 2 or more) known document search results, which are search results of a known document database storing patent known document data, among application document search results of 2 or more integers A conversion means for converting the bibliographic data common to the tally item into the same order as the item order of the tally item; and an integrating means for integrating the above-mentioned known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion means. Publicly-known document search results are tabulated in a tabulation format having the tabulation items described above, and Tallying means capable of tallying search results in the tallying format described above. Tallying result output means for outputting tallying results by the tallying means. Further, a computer-readable recording medium recording a patent information management program of the present invention. )
It is characterized in that a patent information management program for causing a computer to function as each of the following means is recorded.

At least a common search result among a plurality of search results of an application document database storing patent application document data and a plurality of search results of a known document database storing patent known document data is converted into the same sequence. Tallying means for counting the application document search results after the array conversion by the converting means in a tallying format having the above-described array. Tallying result output means for outputting the tallying result by the tallying means

[0025]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiments, "patent" has a broad meaning and means a utility model, a design,
Other industrial property rights such as trademarks shall be included. Figure 1
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a patent information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The patent information management system 1 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 includes a server terminal (a patent information management device as a server device; , Simply referred to as a “server” 2 and a plurality of client terminals (a patent information management device as a client device; hereinafter, simply referred to as a “client”)
3-1 to 3-N) based on a client-server model.

In FIG. 1, for example, the server 2
And the client 3-1 are deployed at a desired location A, and the other clients 3-2-3-N are deployed at remote locations B, respectively, and the clients 3-2-3 at these remote locations B are deployed.
The figure shows that -N and the server 2 at the location A are communicably connected via a desired communication network 4.

Further, a full-text publication cabinet (library device) 2A is connected to the server 2, and the library device 2A accommodates a plurality of CD-ROMs, optical discs, and the like in which a published patent publication (full text) is recorded. Have been.
Then, the server 2 accesses the library device 2A and executes a search using a desired search keyword (search condition), and thereby retrieves information corresponding to the search condition from a search result of the patent known example DB 2A (known document search). result)
Can be obtained as

In the hard disk 2B of the server 2, a public abstract database (DB) including its own application is stored.
2A-1 and public announcement / registered abstract database (DB) 2A-
2. Original application data (patent document data) including undisclosed content
Application databases (DB) 2B-3, etc., are stored as relational data with bibliographic items as items.

That is, the library device 2A, the public abstract DB 2A-1, and the public announcement / registered abstract DB 2A-2 store information on the public patent [application date, application number, publication date, publication number, applicant, inventor, It functions as a patent publicly known example (publicly known document) database (DB) storing publication data (patent publicly known document data) including a plurality of bibliographic items (bibliographic data) such as names and IPCs.
Functions as a proprietary application document database (relational database).

The database (DB) 2B-3
The patent document data stored in the Japanese Patent Publication includes, at least, bibliographic items (application date, application number, applicant, inventor, name, IPC, etc.) at least in common with the bibliographic items of the above-mentioned gazette data. Bibliographic items in the gazette data but not in the proprietary application data (for example, publication numbers and publication dates for unpublished applications) and bibliographic items set independently (for example, for the progress of examinations, deadlines, pension management, etc.) Bibliographic items), they do not completely match.

On the other hand, the client 3-1 is communicably connected to the server 2 via a hub (concentrator) 5.
A search request for 2A-1 (2A-2) and 2B-3 is transmitted, and the search result can be received from the server 2. Similarly, the remote client 3-2
3-N are communicably connected to the server 2 via a hub (HUB) 6 and a communication network 4, respectively.
Also in 3-N, DB2A-
It is possible to send a search request for 1 (2A-2) and 2B-3 and receive the search result from the server 2.

The information in the unique application DB2B-3 is used not only for searching and inquiring like the information in the patent publication DB2A but also for the clients 3-1 to 3-1 via the server 2 or the communication network 4. It is also possible to appropriately input (update) from 3-N. However, for communication (access) between the server 2 and the remote clients 3-2 to 3-N, a dedicated line is set on the communication network 4 in consideration of security, and the dedicated line is set. Better done through.

In FIG. 1, reference numerals 7A and 7B denote printing devices (network printers) connected to the HUBs 5 and 6 and shared by a plurality of terminals in each department.
8A and 8B represent client-specific printing devices (local printers) individually connected to the client 3-i. As described above, in the patent information management system 1, the server 2 centrally manages the patent information stored in each of the DBs 2 </ b> A and 2 </ b> A, and
(I = 1 to N) access to the server 2 so that search, inquiry, output (display / print), etc. of patent information can be appropriately performed. That is, each DB 2A-1 (2A-2), 2B-
3 can be shared by each client 3-i.

The server 2 and the client 3-i according to the present embodiment are configured as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively, when focusing on the essential parts thereof to realize the above-described functions. . Hereinafter, the configurations of the server 2 and the client 3-i shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 will be described in detail. First, as shown in FIG. 2, focusing on the software configuration of the main part of the server 2, for example, a search engine 21A for a patent known example DB (hereinafter, also simply referred to as a “known example DB”) 2A, a proprietary application (Relational) DB2
B-3 search engine 21B, file output unit 22,
It comprises data conversion units 23A and 23B, specific term assignment unit 24, data connection unit 25, tallying unit 26, graph output unit 27, and communication control unit 28.

Here, the search engine (publicly known document database retrieval unit) 21A is a publicly known example DB2A-1, 2A-2.
In response to a search request (search condition) for, the publication data (bibliographic information) corresponding to the search condition is searched, and n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic items are searched (known document search results; The search engine (application document database search unit) 21B searches the original application DB2B-3 in response to a search request (search condition) for the original application DB2B-3. Then, m types (m is an integer of 2 or more, m = n or m ≠ n) of bibliographic items are obtained as search results (application document search results; hereinafter also referred to as unique patent management data).

The search engines 21A, 21A
The search request for B may be input using an input device (not shown) such as a keyboard or mouse of the server 2 itself, or may be input from the client 3-i via the communication control unit 28. The file output unit 22
Converts each search result (publication search data, unique patent management data) by each of the above search engines 21A and 21B into a text data format,
A, 22B. These text files 22A and 22B are temporarily stored on a desired recording medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, or an optical disk.

Further, when the data conversion unit 23A fetches the text file 22A (publication search data) for counting, as shown in, for example, the following Tables 1 and 2, the type of publication (public office) This is for performing the Japanese conversion of the item values uniquely assigned by, and the alphabet conversion of the item values of dates and numbers.

[0038]

[Table 1]

[0039]

[Table 2]

The items to be converted in Table 2 are, for example, application number (AN), trial number (TN), publication number (PN), publication number (PNE), application date (AD), and publication date (PD). ), Patent / Registered Publication Date (PDP), International Application Date (PAD), International Publication Date (PDI), Publication Date (PD
E), registration date (RD), priority claim date (PRD), and the like. In Table 2, M, T, S, and H represent Japanese calendars (Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Heisei), respectively.

Further, the data conversion section (conversion section; conversion means) 23B is provided with a text file 22B for counting.
When the (unique patent management data) is fetched, at least the bibliographic items in the unique patent management data (search results obtained by the search engine 21B) that are common to the tally items of the publication search data are listed in the item order of the tally items ( Line up)
This is for correcting (converting) in the same order (arrangement). For example, the summary items of the gazette search data are “legal classification (patent, utility model, design, trademark, etc.)”, “application number”,
Assuming that the application date, publication number, publication date, registration number, registration date, IPC, and inventor are listed, these total items in the unique patent management data For the bibliographic items in common with the above, the rearrangement of the data is performed so that the data are arranged in the same order.
It will be done by.

In addition to the function of rearranging the bibliographic items, the data conversion unit 23B recognizes differences in the notation of legal divisions (patents, utility models, designs, trademarks), dates, and numbers, as shown in Table 3 below. Also, as shown in FIG. As a result, the notation of the legal division, the date, and the numbers match the publication search data.

[0043]

[Table 3]

[0044]

[Table 4]

The specific term assigning section 24 assigns a specific term (total item name) set by the user to the publication search data as the search result. For example,
When a search is performed with the search condition of “a technology × b technology”, if this is simply given as a specific term,
“A technology × b technology” is the totaling item name at the time of totaling. However, this "specific term" is not necessarily the "search condition"
Does not need to match, and can be set by the user.

Further, the data combining unit (integrating unit; integrating means) 25 integrates the publication search data and the unique patent management data and tallies the publication search data and the unique patent management data after correcting the item arrangement by the data conversion unit 23B. This is for combining (integrating) with the patent management data, thereby at least bibliographic items common to the gazette search data and the unique patent management data can be corrected without artificially correcting the list of items. Each is integrated as a similar bibliographic entry. However, this integration process is not performed when totaling only the publication search data, and integration with dummy publication search data is performed as described later when only the unique patent management data is totalized.

Next, the tabulation unit (counting means) 26 basically converts the publication search data into a predetermined summary item for the publication search data (in this case, the number of items and the item list of the bibliographic items of the publication search data). In the present embodiment, the data conversion unit 23B corrects and arranges the original patent management data in the same order as in the publication search, as described above, in the present embodiment. The unique patent management data after correction by the data conversion unit 23B or the data (publication search data + unique patent management data) combined by the data combining unit 25 is also
Aggregation can be performed in the same aggregation format as described above for publication search data.

Further, a graph output section [totaling result output section (means); graph processing section] 27 outputs the totaling result by the above totaling section 26 in a table or a graph (display on a display or a network printer 7A or a local printer). 8A). The communication control unit 28 controls communication with the client 3-i. The communication control unit 28 allows the server 2 to execute the above-described publication search data text file 22A (hereinafter, the publication search file 22A). Alternatively, a patent search output file 22A) and a unique patent management data text file 22B (hereinafter, unique patent management file 22B or unique patent management output file 2).
2B) can be transmitted to the client 3-i via the HUB 5 or the communication network 4.

The above-mentioned components 21A, 21B, 22
In practice, the functions of the CPUs (computers, not shown) are recorded on a recording medium [floppy (registered) that stores software (patent information management program) for causing the CPU (computer; not shown) to function as these units 21A, 21B, and 22 to 28. Trademark) disk, CD-ROM, MO (magneto-optical disk)
Or installed hard disk etc.)
Is read and operated in accordance with the read.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, for example, each of the clients 3-i includes a communication control unit 31, a file acquisition unit 32, data conversion units 33A and 33B, a specific term assignment unit 34, a data connection unit 35, It comprises a totaling unit 36 and a graph output unit 37. Here, the communication control unit 3
Reference numeral 1 denotes a device for controlling communication with the server 2. In the present embodiment, the communication control unit 31 provides the server 2 with the known examples DB2A-1, 2A-2 and the unique application DB2B-3.
, A search result (either the patent search file 22A or the original patent management file 22B or both) transmitted by the communication control unit 28 of the server 2 as a response can be received. ing.

The file acquisition unit 32 acquires one or both of the publication search file 22A and the unique patent management file 22B received by the communication control unit 31 from the communication control unit 31. The publication search file 22A and the unique patent management file 22B, like the server 2, are temporarily stored in a desired recording medium such as its own hard disk, an attached floppy disk, or an optical disk.

The data conversion units 33A and 33B, the specific term assignment unit 34, the data combination unit 35, the tallying unit 36, and the graph output unit 37 are connected to the data conversion unit 2 in the server 2.
3A, 23B, specific term giving unit 24, data combining unit 2
5, which are the same as the tallying unit 26 and the graph output unit 27, respectively, and these units 33 to 37 enable the data conversion unit 23A,
23B, a specific term assigning unit 24, a data combining unit 25, a tallying unit 26 and a graph output unit 27 can perform the same processing as the tallying / outputting process.

That is, when the data conversion unit 33A takes in the text file 22A (publication search data),
As shown in Tables 1 and 2, it is used to perform Japanese conversion of the publication type (item value uniquely assigned by the government office) in the publication search data, and alphabetical conversion of the item values such as dates and numbers. When the text conversion unit (conversion unit; conversion means) 33B captures the text file 22B (unique patent management data), the bibliographic items common to at least the aggregation items of the publication search data in the unique patent management data Is corrected (converted) into the same order (arrangement) as the item order (arrangement) of the tally item, and the specific term assigning unit 34 sets the specific term (total item name ).

Data combining unit (integrating unit; integrating means)
When the publication search data and the unique patent management data are integrated and totaled, the publication search data and the unique patent management data after the item arrangement correction by the data conversion unit 33B are performed in the same manner as the data combining unit 24 of the server 2. And combine (integrate)
However, when only the unique patent management data is totaled, it is combined with dummy publication search data.

The counting unit (counting means) 36 determines whether the data input from the data combining unit 35 is only the publication search data, only the unique patent management data, and the integrated publication search data and the unique patent management data. Regardless, the input data is to be tabulated in the tabulation format for publication search data as described above, and the graph output section [tabulation result output section (means); graph processing section] 37 includes the tabulation section 36. Is output as a graph (displayed on a display or printed out on a network printer 7A or a local printer 8A).

That is, the client 3-i does not have the search engines 21A and 21B, but instead has the communication control unit 2
By providing the search request 8, the server 2 sends a search request to the server 2, receives a search result corresponding to the search request from the server 2, and receives the search results (publication search data and original patent management data) from the server 2 in this manner. The tallying / output processing after the processing supports the same function as that of the server 2.

In the client 3-i, the functions of the units 31 to 37 described above are actually
U (computer; not shown) is connected to each of these units 31 to 3
7 is realized by the CPU reading a recording medium on which software (patent information management program) for functioning as the program 7 is recorded and operating in accordance with the program. Hereinafter, the operation of the patent information management system of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described in detail. Note that a case will be described as an example where the above software is realized in cooperation with database software and spreadsheet software.

First, when the “unique patent management data search system” program is started in the server 2 (FIG. 4)
(A) Step A1), an initial menu screen 41 as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display. Then, when the "Latest Data Import" button 41a is clicked, the newly input data (the latest data input on the work day) is retrieved from the hard disk 2B (original application DB 2B-3).

When the import is completed, the user clicks the “search for unique patent management data” button 41b on the initial menu screen 41 (hereinafter simply referred to as “initial menu 41”). Then, a “special patent management data extraction condition specification” screen 42 (hereinafter, also simply referred to as “condition specification” screen 42) as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. Here, as shown in FIG. 6, the unique patent management data extraction (search) conditions are specified for up to five items of “technical classification”, “IPC”, “keyword”, “inventor code” and “date”. Yes, up to five conditions can be specified for the same item. Note that an OR (logical sum) condition between the five conditions in the same item is
Are AND (OR) conditions or OR conditions.

However, when the above “date” is specified, the AND condition is satisfied with respect to the conditions specified in the above. If only one OR condition other than the AND condition is specified in each of the above items, the OR condition is not satisfied and the AND condition is satisfied.
The OR condition is satisfied only when two or more conditions are specified.

For example, when “AND” is specified for “Technical Class” and OR is specified for “IPC”, the search condition is O
R is not established and these ANDs ("Technical classification" AND "I
PC ”),“ Technical Classification ”,“ IPC ”,
When AND, OR, and OR are specified for the “keyword”, the above and between OR conditions are satisfied, and the search condition is “technical classification” AND (“IPC” OR “keyword”).

In FIG. 6, as an example, among the “technical classifications” starting with P representing the legal division = “patent”, P02 (device relating to technology c), P03 (device relating to technology d), P01
(E-technology related equipment) is input (designated) as a search condition
Is shown. Then, when the "execute" button 42a is clicked in a state where the search conditions are input as described above, the search by the search engine 21B is started [steps A2 and A3 in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7, a “number of search results” screen 43 is displayed. Then, after clicking the "OK" button 43a to close the "number of search results" screen 43, "specify conditions"
The "end" button 42b on the screen 42 is clicked to close the "condition specification" screen 42, and the search ends.

Next, when the user returns to the initial menu 41 and clicks the "search result display" button 41c, a "search result list display" screen 44 as shown in FIG. 8 is displayed, and the search results can be confirmed. . On the other hand, after the search is completed as described above, in the initial menu 41, "table output"
When the button 41d is clicked, as shown in FIG.
In order to save the information (search result) displayed on the "search result" screen 44 ', a "save as" screen 45
Is displayed. Here, for example, “external file or database (E)” is selected, and “OK” button 45a is selected.
Click.

Thereafter, a "search result storage" screen is displayed. According to the instruction on the screen, the information displayed on the "search result" screen 44 'shown in FIG.
Save as a text file (comma-separated format, etc.) with an arbitrary file name (cde technology.txt, etc.).
When the saving is completed normally, a completion confirmation screen 50 as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed, and the “OK” button 50a is clicked (the completion confirmation screen 50 disappears (closes)).

According to the above procedure, the search result (unique patent management data) is stored in the hard disk by the file output section 22 as a text file 22B with a comma delimiter [Step A4 in FIG. 4A].
After the completion confirmation screen 50 is erased, the "search result" screen 44 'is still displayed, and this screen is also closed. Then, in the initial menu 41, an "end" button 41e
Click to end the “Unique Patent Management Data Search System” program.

Next, when the “publication (publicly known example) retrieval system” program is started [Step A in FIG.
5) As shown in FIG. 11, a "function selection" screen 53 is displayed, and the user selects whether the search target DB is a public / public announcement DB. In the example, "public DB" button 5
3a, the public DB is selected as a DB to be searched. Then, a “condition input” screen 54 as shown in FIG. 12 is displayed, and a search condition is input.

For example, when performing a search under the same search conditions as the above-described unique patent management data search conditions, first, "full specification" is designated as "search item" (search range: see arrow 54a), and "search “C technology” is input as the “technical field” in the “key value 1” column 54b, and the “search execution” button 54c is clicked. As a result, a search using “c technology” as a keyword is executed by the search engine 21A [steps A6 and A7 in FIG. 4B].

Similarly, “d technology” and “e technology” are also input in the “search key value 1” column 54b, respectively.
When the "execute search" button 54c is clicked, a search using the keywords "d technology" and "e technology" is executed by the search engine 21A [steps A6 and A7 in FIG. 4B]. The search using the above three keywords may be performed in any order.

When a search result based on the above three keywords is obtained, next, as shown in FIG. 13, "applicant" is designated in the "search item" (see arrow 54a), and the user (" AAA ”) and others (“ BBB ”,
"CCC", "DDD", etc.) in the "search key value 1" column 54.
Input sequentially from "b" (however, OR conditions between "search key values"), and click "execute search" button 54c.

Thus, the input “applicant” (“A
AA ”to“ DDD ”) are respectively searched by the search engine 21A as a keyword (FIG. 4B).
Steps A6 and A7]. When the search result (S4) is obtained, the search result (S4) is then multiplied by the search result using the above three keywords (S3). Then, when a conditional expression (see arrow 54e) obtained by multiplying "technical field" and "applicant" is double-clicked, as shown in FIG.
Is displayed.

Next, in order to output the search result (publication search data) as a text file 22A, as shown in FIG. 14, an "output" button 55b on a menu bar 55a is clicked, and "table output" is clicked. Select ". Then, as shown in FIG. 15, a “table output” screen 56 is displayed, and a number is input in “number of repetition items” (arrow 5).
6a), and from "subject item" (see arrow 56b), "publication type", "application number", "public number", "public date", "utility model registration number", "registration date", "IPC
"Expansion symbol", "inventor", "applicant", "name of invention"
Is specified, and an “execute” button 56c is clicked.

Then, a “table output save” screen 57 as shown in FIG. 16 is displayed, and the save destination is designated to an arbitrary place (“XX... ×”) (see arrow 57a), and the file is saved. Is designated as "table output" (see arrow 57c), and a file name is inputted with an arbitrary name (for example, c technology.txt, etc.) (see arrow 57b), and "save" is performed.
Click the button 57d [Step A in FIG.
8].

As a result, the above search result (publication search data) is output and stored on the hard disk as a text file 22A by the file output unit 22 [FIG.
(Step A8 of (B)). During this output work,
As shown in FIG. 17, a “Bibliographic output” screen 58 is displayed. When the output is completed, the “search result list” screen 55
Click the "End" button 55c in the menu bar 55a of "No. of patented examples search end" (not shown).
Click to close the "Bibliographic output" screen 58, and then click the "Exit" button 53b on the "Function selection" screen 53 (see FIG. 11) to end the "Patent well-known example search system" program. Let it.

The text files 22A, 22A for the publication search data and the unique patent management data are obtained by the above procedure.
B are created. In the client 3-i, a search request and a file transmission request are appropriately transmitted from the communication control unit 31 to the server 2 by executing the same procedure as described above, and these text files 22A and 22B are transmitted. It is received (downloaded) from the server 2 by the communication control unit 31.

Next, a description will be given of a procedure for summarizing and outputting the above search results (publication search data and unique patent management data). The client 3-i
Is the same as the following. First, the “statistical option” program is started (Step A in FIG. 4C).
9]. Then, the initial menu screen 6 as shown in FIG.
0 (hereinafter, simply referred to as “initial menu 60”). First, in order to capture the publication search file 22A obtained by the above-described publication search, a DB (public / publication) in which the publication search file 22A is recorded is displayed. (Public notice) is clicked (in this case, the "open" button 60a is clicked).

Then, an “open file” screen 61 as shown in FIG. 19 is displayed.
As the location where the publication search output file 22A is stored ("xx ... x" in the above example) (see arrow 61a), and "File type" is changed to "text file" (see arrow 61b). specify. As a result, “×
A list of text files contained in “×××” is displayed. Select a file to be totaled (c technology.txt in FIG. 19) and click an “Open” button 61.
Click c.

Then, the publication output file 22A (c technology.txt) is taken in by the file output unit 22 (the file acquisition unit 32 in the client 3-i) [Step A10 in FIG. The conversion unit 23A (33A) performs Japanese conversion of the legal division (item value) and conversion of notation of dates and numbers (see Tables 1 and 2).

At this time, on the display,
As shown in FIG. 20, a “specific term designation screen” 62 is displayed, and a specific term (for example, c technology) is input.
When the "OK" button 62a is clicked, the input specific term is added to the publication search data as a total item name by the specific term giving unit 24 (34). After that,
Incorporation of the publication search output file 22A (for example, d technology.txt, e technology.txt, etc.) and addition of specific terms are repeated in the same procedure as necessary for the graph display. Thereby, for example, a sheet 65 as shown in FIG. 23 is created.

Next, in order to take in the unique patent management data, the process returns to the initial menu 60 (see FIG. 18) and clicks the “unique patent management” button 60b. Then, as shown in FIG. 21, also in this case, the “open file” screen 63 is displayed, and the location where the unique patent management data is recorded (saved) (in the above example, “OO ... ")
Is specified (see arrow 63a). At this time, the “file type” is set to “text file” (see arrow 63b).

Then, as shown in FIG. 21, a list of text files recorded in the designated location is displayed, and the unique patent management output file 22B to be counted is displayed.
(In FIG. 21, cde technology. Txt: see reference numeral 63c) and click the "Open" button 63d. Thus, the file output unit 22 (the file acquisition unit 32 in the client 3-i) loads the unique patent management output file 22B into the spreadsheet software [FIG.
(Step A11 of (C)).

At this time, the data converter 23B
Data conversion by (33B) is performed. That is, among the unique patent management data, the bibliographic items that are common to the tabulation items for publication search data are rearranged so that they are in the same order as the tabulation items, and the legal division (patent, utility model, design, trademark) ), Dates, and numbers are converted (see Tables 3 and 4 above). As a result, an “unique patent management data” sheet 64 as shown in FIG. 22 is created.

This “unique patent management data” sheet 64
Can be displayed by clicking the “display original patent management data” button 60 c of the initial menu 60.
Then, as shown in FIG. 22, the original patent management data in the second row and below is dragged (selected), and as shown in FIG. 23, after the publication search data (shaded portion) pasted on the sheet 65, Paste original patent management data (additional registration). At this time, unnecessary items are deleted.

Thus, the data combining unit 25 (35) combines (integrates) the publication search data with the unique patent management data. [One sheet 65 in which the publication search data and the unique patent management data are integrated is formed. Created: Figure 4
(Step A12 of (C)). Next, the initial menu 60
Returning to (see FIG. 18), when the “execute tally” button 60d is clicked, a “tally item selection screen” 66 as shown in FIG. 24 is displayed. "Specific terms"("ctechnology","dtechnology","etechnology", etc.) are entered in the "person" and "total item 2" fields 66b, respectively, and the "OK" button 66c is clicked.
As a result, a tallying process using the "applicant" and the "specific term" as tally items is executed by the tallying unit 26 (36) [Steps A13 and A14 in FIG. 4C].

When the tallying is completed, a “tallying end confirmation” screen 67 as shown in FIG. 25 is displayed.
Click the "OK" button 67a. As a result, for example, a “total” sheet 68 (total result) as shown in FIG. 26 is created. At this time, only the necessary applicants who want to finally display the graph are left, and the others are deleted. When a plurality of data of the same type exist for the same applicant, they are integrated into one data.

Thereafter, when the user returns to the initial menu 60 and clicks the “execute graph” button 60e, the three-dimensional (of course, two-dimensional) as shown in FIG. (Good) is graphed by the graph output unit 27 (37) and displayed on the display (may be printed out; Step A)
15, A16). In this graphing, the form of the graph, the direction of the character string, the name of the axis, the font of the character, and the like can be freely changed similarly to the existing spreadsheet software.

Next, a procedure for totalizing and outputting (graphing) only the unique patent management data will be described. Note that the procedure of totalizing / outputting (graphing) only the publication search data is the same as the known procedure, and the description thereof is omitted here. When only the unique patent management data is tabulated and output, first, as shown in FIG. 28, in step A10 of FIG.
2A is taken in (step A10 '), and a sheet 65 is created. Then, as shown in FIG. 29, all the other items are deleted except for the item names in the first and second lines, and the sheet 65 is deleted.
Then, the original patent management data is pasted in the same manner as in step A11.

That is, only the unique patent management data is totaled and
In the case of output, a dummy (arbitrary) publication search file 22A is fetched in order to acquire the aggregation format for the publication search data (create the sheet 65), and the "unique patent management data" sheet 64 It pastes the unique patent management data that is pasted into the. As a result, a sheet 65 to which only the unique patent management data is pasted is created, and thereafter, the above-described steps A12 to A12 are performed.
By the same procedure as in 16, the calculation of original patent management data
Graphing is performed.

That is, in the server 2 (client 3-i), the search result for the known example DB2A (publication search data), the search result for the original application DB2B-3 (original patent management data), or both. Get
The tallying is performed in any of the following three modes, and the tallying result is output by, for example, displaying a graph. Patent search mode for summarizing the patent search data: The patent search data is tabulated in a tabulation format having predetermined tabulation items for the patent search data. Converts at least the bibliographic items common to the tabulated items of the publication search data into the same order as the item order of the tabulated items in the data, and then tabulates them in the tabulation format for the publication search data Both the publication search data and the unique patent management data Publication search / proprietary patent management coordination mode: At least the bibliographic items common to at least the publication search data tabulation items in the proprietary patent management data are converted into the same order as the item order of the publication search data tally items. Publication search data after integrating the Japanese patent search data and the original patent management data after the item order conversion Compiled by aggregation format Note that shows a summary graph output example of original patent management data only in FIG. 30 shows a summary graph output example of JP search data only in Figure 31. However, FIG. 30 shows a case where the search conditions (total items) are “inventor” and “legal division”.
FIG. 31 shows the graph output results when the search conditions (total items) are "term" and "applicant", respectively.

As described above, according to the patent information management system 1 (server 2, client 3-i) of the present embodiment,
The search results (proprietary patent management data) for the proprietary application DB2B-3 and the search results (publication search data) for the well-known example DB2A can be integrated and tabulated and output, so that analysis of each search result is easy. Thus, it is possible to efficiently find an effective patent strategy in consideration of the known patent examples (known literature data).

At this time, since the item order of at least the part common to the tally item for the gazette search data in the unique patent management data is converted into the same order, a single tally format for the gazette search data is used. In addition to the totalization and output of patent search data (publication search mode), unique patent management data with different totals are tabulated and displayed in a graph (proprietary patent management mode). Significant changes are made to the existing software for processing and summarizing and outputting patent publication search data (the "Statistics Option" program) to integrate management data and display totals and graphs (publication search and unique patent management cooperation mode). Without the need for artificial conversion work.

Further, each DB2A-1 (2A-
2) By providing the server 2 that manages 2B-3 with the communication control unit 28, the publication search data obtained by the server 2 can be obtained.
Unique patent management data to the client 3 via the communication line
-I, it is possible to centrally manage the patent information in the server 2 and to share the patent information between the server 2 and the client 3-i.

Therefore, the server 2 and the client 3-i
In any of the above, it is possible to freely search, tabulate and output necessary patent information, and in remote area B, it is possible to investigate and analyze the technical trends of others, and to obtain effective patents It is possible to plan strategies and improve the quality of original applications. In addition, since the tabulation results are output in the form of a graph, the tabulation results can be easily visually recognized, and more efficient analysis can be performed. Further, the server 2 and the client 3-i can be realized only by causing a computer to read a recording medium on which a patent information management program for realizing the above-described functions is recorded. Server 2 and client 3-i can be spread on a large scale.

Others The server 2 and client 3-i described above collect and output publication search data (publication search mode), collect and output original patent management data (independent patent management mode), It is possible to selectively execute any of the processing of totaling and output (publication search and original patent management cooperation mode) after integrating with the original patent management data.
For example, the terminal may be configured to have only two modes of a publication search mode and a unique patent management mode, or a terminal having only two modes of a publication search mode and a publication search / proprietary patent management cooperation mode. That is, the tallying unit 26 (36) may be configured to count only the gazette search data or the unique patent management data, or only the gazette search data or the data after the integration of the gazette search data and the unique patent management data.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the bibliographic items of the unique patent management data, which are common to the bibliographic items of the gazette search data, are converted so as to be the same as the sequence of the tally items for the gazette search data. Alternatively, the sequence of bibliographic items in the publication search data may be converted. In the above-described embodiment, the bibliographic items of patent information are searched, counted, and output. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and information other than bibliographic items may be searched, counted, and output.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the Japanese language conversion of the legal division and the conversion processing of the notation of the date and the number can be performed. However, even if such a function is omitted, the object of the present invention is achieved. Is achieved. Of course, such a function is unnecessary if the information originally matches in the official gazette search data and the unique patent management data. Further, the server 2 described above
Is provided with the communication control unit 28 so that the client 3
-I, but of course, may be configured as a terminal (stand-alone type) dedicated to search / aggregation / output of patent information omitting such a communication function. Conversely, the search engines 21A and 21A are provided to the client 3-i.
B, the information itself of the DB 2A-1 (2A-2) and 2B-3 is sent from the server 2 to the client 3-i instead of the search result, so that the client 3-i can also perform the search independently. Is also good.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be variously modified and implemented without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0097]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
Since the search results for the application document database (application document search results; bibliographic data) and the search results for the publicly known document database (publicly known document search results; bibliographic data) can be aggregated and output, Analysis of each search result is easy, and an effective patent strategy in consideration of known document data can be efficiently found.

At this time, among the application document search results,
At least, the order of the items common to the tallying items for known document search results is converted to the same order, so that the tallying and outputting of the known document search results can be performed in a single tallying format for known document search results. In addition, the tallying and outputting of search results of application documents with different tabulation items, and the tallying and outputting after integrating each search result, have been greatly changed to the existing tallying and output processing software for known literature search results. And can be realized while minimizing artificial conversion work.

Further, by providing a communication control unit in the patent information management device as a server device for managing each of the above databases, one or both of the above search results obtained by the server device can be transmitted via a communication line. It is also possible to provide the patent information to another patent information management device as a client device, so that the patent information can be centrally managed in the server device and the patent information can be shared between the server device and the client device.

Therefore, it is possible to freely search, tabulate, and output necessary patent information in both the server device and the client device. For example, in a company or the like, the server device is deployed in the department in charge of patent and Technology department including equipment at remote locations (development / design department, etc.)
Will enable not only patent departments but also technical departments to research and analyze competitors' technological trends, shortening product development / design periods and improving the quality of proprietary applications by technical departments. It is possible to plan.

Further, when the tally results are output, if the tally results can be graphed and output, the tally results can be easily visually recognized, so that more efficient analysis can be performed. Furthermore, since the patent information management device as described above can be realized only by causing a computer to read a recording medium on which a patent information management program for realizing the above-described functions is recorded, at a minimum cost, This patent information management device can be widely spread.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a patent information management system as one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a server terminal (patent information management device) shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a main part of the client terminal (patent information management device) shown in FIG. 1;

FIGS. 4A to 4C are flowcharts for explaining the operation of the server terminal (client terminal) shown in FIG. 2 (FIG. 3);

FIG. 5 is a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) in the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a server terminal (client terminal) according to the embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) in the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a server terminal (client terminal) according to the embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) in the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining the operation procedure of the unique patent management data search system (program) at the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the patent known example search system (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a patent known example search system (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the patent known example search system (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a patent known example search system (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the patent known example search system (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of the patent known example search system (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining the operation procedure of the patent known example search system (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) at a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) according to the embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) at a server terminal (client terminal) according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for describing an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 23 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) on a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) at a server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) on the server terminal (client terminal) of the embodiment.

FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display for explaining an operation procedure of a statistical option (program) at a server terminal (client terminal) according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 27 shows statistical options (programs) according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a tallying result output by.

FIG. 28 is a flowchart for explaining another operation of the server terminal (client terminal) of the present embodiment (when only unique patent management data is totaled).

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing an example of dummy publication search data according to the embodiment;

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing an example of a tallying / graph output result (totaling item = “inventor” and “legal division”) of only unique patent management data according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating an example of a tabulation / graph output result (tabulation item = “term” and “applicant”) of only the publication search data according to the present embodiment.

[Description of Signs] 1 Patent information management system 2 Server terminal (server device; patent information management device) 2A Publication full-text cabinet (library device) 2A-1 Public abstract database (DB) 2A-2 Public announcement / registered abstract database (DB) 2B Hard disk 2B-3 (Unique) Application database (DB) 3-1-3-N Client terminal (client device; patent information management device) 4 Communication network 5, 6 HUB (concentrator) 7A, 7B Printing device (network printer) 8A, 8B Printing device (local printer) 21A Search engine (publicly known document database search unit) 21B Search engine (application document database search unit) 22 File output unit 22A Text file (publication search (output) file) 22B Text file (proprietary) Patent Management (output) file) 23A, 33A Data conversion unit 23B, 33B Data conversion unit (conversion unit; conversion unit) 24, 34 Specific term assignment unit 25, 35 Data connection unit (integration unit; integration unit) 26, 36 Aggregation unit (Aggregating means) 27, 37 Graph output unit [Aggregation result output unit (means);
Graph processing unit] 28, 31 Communication control unit 32 File acquisition unit 41, 60 Initial menu screen 42 "Specification of unique patent management data extraction condition" screen 43 "Number of search results" screen 44 "Search result list display" screen 44 '" “Search result” screen 45 “Save as” screen 50 Completion confirmation screen 53 “Function selection” screen 54 “Condition input” screen 55 “Search result list” screen 56 “Table output” screen 57 “Table output save” screen 58 “Bibliographic output” screen 61, 63 “Open file” screen 62 “Specific term designation screen” 64 “Unique patent management data” sheet 65 Sheet 66 “Total item selection screen” 67 “Total tab end confirmation” screen 68 “Total” Sheet 69 “Inventor list” screen

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing on the front page (72) Shinichi Hayasaka, Inventor 4-1-1, Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Inside New Caterpillar Mitsubishi Co., Ltd. (72) Yukie Takahashi 4-1-1, Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo No. New Caterpillar Mitsubishi Corporation (72) Inventor Yumiko Murai 4-1-1, Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (72) Inventor Yukio Fukuda 4-1-1 Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo No. Caterpillar Mitsubishi Corporation (72) Inventor Kenji Niimi 4-1-1, Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (72) Inventor Yoshitomo Nozawa 4--10 Yoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo No. 1 New Caterpillar Mitsubishi Corporation (72) Inventor Hironobu Ito 4-1-1 Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture No. 1 Fujitsu Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masumi Tanaka 10-12, Makayacho, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture Fujitsu Co., Ltd. Okayama System Engineering Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 5B049 AA01 AA06 EE02 EE05 5B075 ND20 NK04

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[Claims] A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data; and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data of the patent-known document data. A stored application document database; a known document database search unit for searching the known document database to obtain n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as known document search results; An application document database search unit that obtains m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as application document search results; and the known document search results obtained by the known document database search unit are the known document search results. A tallying unit for tallying data in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items, and outputting a tallying result by the tallying unit. A conversion result output unit, and a conversion unit for converting at least the bibliographic data common to the aggregation item in the application document search result obtained by the application document database search unit into the same order as the item order of the aggregation item. An integration unit that integrates the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit with the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit; A patent information management apparatus, wherein the application document search results after the order conversion or the search results after integration by the integration unit can be aggregated in the aggregation format. 2. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data of the patent-known document data. A patent information management device serving as a client device connected to a patent information management device serving as a server device for managing a stored application document database, wherein n types (n is 2 or more) of search results of the known document database are provided. ) (M integers), which are the search results of the publicly known document and the application document database.
A communication control unit for receiving one or both of the application document search results of the application documents from the server device, and a known document search result received by the communication control unit for the known document search result. A tallying unit for tallying in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items, a tallying result output unit for outputting tallying results by the tallying unit, and at least the tallying items among application document search results received by the communication control unit A conversion unit for converting the bibliographic data common to the above into the same order as the item order of the aggregation item; a known document search result received by the communication control unit; and an application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit. And an aggregation unit for integrating the application document search results after the item order conversion by the conversion unit or the search results after integration by the integration unit. Characterized in that it is configured to be aggregated in formats, patent information management device. 3. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with the bibliographic data of the patent-known document data. A stored application document database; a known document database search unit for searching the known document database to obtain n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as known document search results; An application document database search unit that obtains m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as application document search results; and the known document search results obtained by the known document database search unit are the known document search results. A tallying unit that performs tallying in a tallying format having a predetermined tallying item, and excludes tallying results by the tallying unit. A totaling result output unit to be output; and a converting unit that converts at least bibliographic data common to the totaling item in the application document search result obtained by the application document database searching unit into the same order as the item order of the totaling item. A patent information management device, wherein the totaling unit is configured to total the application document search results after the item order conversion by the converting unit in the totaling format. 4. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with the bibliographic data of the patent-known document data. A patent information management device serving as a client device connected to a patent information management device serving as a server device for managing a stored application document database, wherein n types (n is 2 or more) of search results of the known document database are provided. ) (M integers), which are the search results of the publicly known document and the application document database.
A communication control unit for receiving one or both of the application document search results of the application documents from the server device, and a known document search result received by the communication control unit for the known document search result. A tallying unit for tallying in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items, a tallying result output unit for outputting tallying results by the tallying unit, and at least the tallying items among application document search results received by the communication control unit And a conversion unit for converting the bibliographic data common to the above into the same order as the item order of the tallying items, and the tallying unit tally the application document search results after the item order conversion by the conversion unit in the tallying format. A patent information management device, characterized in that the patent information management device is configured to be able to obtain the information. 5. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and a patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data included in the patent-known document data. A stored application document database; a known document database search unit that searches the known document database to obtain n (n is an integer of 2 or more) known document search results; (where m is an integer of 2 or more) an application document database search unit that obtains an application document search result, and a predetermined total item for the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit. A tallying unit for tallying in a tallying format, a tallying result output unit for externally outputting tallying results by the tallying unit, A conversion unit for converting at least the bibliographic data common to the tally item in the application document search results obtained by the bibliographic database search unit into the same order as the item order of the tally item; An integration unit that integrates the obtained known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit; and the tallying unit integrates each search result after the integration by the integration unit into the tallying result. A patent information management device characterized in that it can be compiled in a format. 6. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and a patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with the bibliographic data of the patent-known document data. A patent information management device serving as a client device connected to a patent information management device serving as a server device for managing a stored application document database, wherein n types (n is 2 or more) of search results of the known document database are provided. ) (M integers), which are the search results of the publicly known document and the application document database.
A communication control unit for receiving one or both of the application document search results of the application documents from the server device, and a known document search result received by the communication control unit for the known document search result. A tallying unit for tallying in a tallying format having predetermined tallying items, a tallying result output unit for outputting tallying results by the tallying unit, and at least the tallying items among application document search results received by the communication control unit A conversion unit for converting the bibliographic data common to the above into the same order as the item order of the aggregation item; a known document search result received by the communication control unit; and an application document search result after the item order conversion by the conversion unit. And an aggregation unit for integrating the search results, and the aggregation unit is configured to aggregate the search results integrated by the integration unit in the aggregation format. Patent information management device. 7. Other patent information management as a client device, wherein at least one of the known document search result obtained by the known document database search unit and the application document search result obtained by the application document database search unit is used as a client device. The patent information management device according to any one of claims 1, 3, and 5, further comprising a communication control unit for transmitting the patent information to the device. 8. The tallying result output unit is configured as a graph processing unit for graphing and outputting the tallying result.
The patent information management device according to any one of the above. 9. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and a patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data included in the patent-known document data. In a patent information management apparatus having a stored application document database, n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data or an application for the application document database are obtained as a result of a search for the known document in the known document database. M types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data as document search results,
Alternatively, when both of them are obtained and the known document search results are tabulated, the known document search results are tabulated in a tabulation format having predetermined tabulation items for the known document search results. When the search results are totaled, at least the bibliographic data common to the tally item in the application document search result is converted into the same order as the item order of the tally item. In the case of totaling both of the above search results, convert at least the bibliographic data common to the total item in the application document search result into the same order as the item order of the total item, After integrating the known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion, the search results are totaled in the totaling format, and the above totaling result is output. Characteristic, patent information tallying and output method in patent information management device. 10. A publicly-known document database storing patent-known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data, and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data included in the patent-known document data. In a patent information management device having a stored application document database, at least n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data are obtained as a result of the application document search by searching the application document database. The bibliographic data common to a predetermined tabulation item with respect to m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data obtained as a publicly known document search result by at least searching the publicly known document database among the document search results is described. After converting to the same order as the item order of the tally item, the application document search result is converted to a tally format having the tally item. A patent information tallying / outputting method in a patent information management device, comprising: 11. A publicly known document database in which patent and known document data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data are stored, and patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data of the patent and known document data are included. In a patent information management apparatus having a stored application document database, the above-mentioned databases are searched and n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data and m types (m is an integer of 2 or more) of bibliographic data are searched. Bibliographic data is obtained as a known document search result and an application document search result, respectively, and at least the bibliographic data common to at least a predetermined tabulation item for the known document search result among the application document search results is assigned to the item order of the tally item. After the known document search results and the application document search results after the item order conversion are integrated, each search result is converted to the totaling file. Compiled by Matto, and outputs the result of the counting, the patent information aggregation and output method in the patent information management device. 12. A computer-readable recording medium which stores patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with bibliographic data of patent-known bibliographic data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. M types (m is an integer of 2 or more) that are the search results for the saved application document database
At least n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of known document search results, which are search results of a known document database that stores the patent known document data, among application document search results of Converting means for converting the bibliographic data of the above-mentioned bibliographic data into the same order as the item order of the tallying item; integrating means for integrating the known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the converting means; The document search results are tabulated in a tabulation format having the tabulation items, and the application document search results after the item order conversion by the conversion unit or the respective search results after integration by the integration unit are converted to the tabulation format. And a patent information management program for functioning as a tally result output means for outputting a tally result by the tally means. Is characterized in that is, a computer-readable recording medium recording the patent information management program. 13. A computer-readable recording medium which stores patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with bibliographic data of patent-known bibliographic data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. M types (m is an integer of 2 or more) that are the search results for the saved application document database
At least n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of known document search results, which are search results of a known document database that stores the patent known document data, among application document search results of A conversion means for converting the bibliographic data of the item into the same order as the item order of the tallying item; and aggregating the known document search results in a tallying format having the tallying item, and converting the item order by the converting means. A totaling means capable of totalizing the application document search results in the totaling format and a patent information management program for functioning as a totaling result output means for outputting the totaling result by the totaling means are recorded. , A computer-readable recording medium recording a patent information management program. 14. A computer-readable recording medium which stores patent application document data including at least common bibliographic data with bibliographic data of patent-known bibliographic data including a plurality of types of bibliographic data. M types (m is an integer of 2 or more) that are the search results for the saved application document database
At least n types (n is an integer of 2 or more) of known document search results, which are search results of a known document database that stores the patent known document data, among application document search results of Converting means for converting the bibliographic data of the above-mentioned bibliographic data into the same order as the item order of the tallying item; integrating means for integrating the known document search result and the application document search result after the item order conversion by the converting means; Tallying means for counting the literature search results in a tallying format having the tallying items, tallying the respective search results integrated by the integrating means in the tallying format, and outputting the tallying results by the tallying means A patent information management program for functioning as a tallying result output means. Computer readable recording medium. 15. A computer readable recording medium, comprising: a plurality of search results for an application document database storing patent application document data; and a plurality of search results for a known document database storing patent known document data. Conversion means for converting at least a common search result among search results into the same sequence; totaling means for totalizing application document search results after sequence conversion by the conversion means in a totaling format having the sequence; A computer-readable recording medium on which a patent information management program is recorded, wherein a patent information management program for functioning as a tally result output means for outputting a tally result by the tally means is recorded.