JPH1185799A - System for automatically generating patent abstract - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic patent abstract generation system for reducing the load of a retrieval processing and a view recognition processing by automatically generating and preserving an abstract from a patent document at the time of a file wrapper generation processing. SOLUTION: A patent document storage means 102 classifying the patent documents inputted to a terminal equipment into the documents of an application, a specification, a summary and a drawing and storing them in a patent file wrapper data base 104 and a patent abstract storage means 103 extracting prescribed information from application, summary and drawing information, which are outputted from the patent document storage means, automatically generating the patent abstract and registering the generated patent abstract to the patent file wrapper data base 104 are provided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for automatically generating a document, and more particularly to a method suitable for automatically preparing a patent abstract.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the management by digitization of a patent document, the entire patent document (application, specification, drawing, abstract) is stored in a file device, and a search process is performed on the entire patent document. For this reason, the time required for patent document search processing increases as the number of patent documents stored increases.

[0003] In a company or the like, in a patent application business process, a wrapping process is performed to manage patent documents, and when a subsequent patent application is made, it is checked whether the same type of application is filed. At this time, if the entire text of the patent application specification is searched, the load and time are required for the search process, and the number of man-hours required for visually checking the specification and the drawings increases. For patent documents etc. after the application is published, for example, PAT
Abstracts and the like can be obtained using the services of a patent information search system such as OLIS, but information cannot be obtained for patent applications before the publication of the application.

[0004]

As described above, as described above,
The conventional method has the following problems.

[0005] The first problem is that the search processing time in patent document search processing increases.

The reason for this is that the search process is performed on the entire search target document, so that the time and load required for the process increase.

[0007] The second problem is that the load and the number of man-hours for the task of visually confirming the search target document are increased.

[0008] The reason is that when a document corresponding to a search is visually confirmed, the entire document must be confirmed.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and has as its object to automatically create and store an abstract from a patent document at the time of wrapping bag creation processing, thereby performing search processing and visual confirmation. An object of the present invention is to provide a patent abstract automatic generation system that reduces the processing load.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for preparing a patent abstract in a predetermined format from an application, a drawing, and an abstract at the time of processing a patent wrapper. It is stored and a search is performed on the stored abstract.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described. In a preferred embodiment, the automatic patent abstract creation system of the present invention is configured such that an application form, a specification, an abstract, drawings,
Patent document storage means (102 in FIG. 1) for classifying each chemical document or the like into documents such as documents and storing it in the patent wrapper database (104 in FIG. 1), an application output from the patent document storage means, and an abstract Patent abstract storage means (103 in FIG. 1) for automatically generating a patent abstract by extracting predetermined information from the book and drawing information, and registering the generated patent abstract in the patent wrapper database. I have. Each of the units 102 and 103 can be realized by, for example, a program executed by a computer constituting a terminal device.

In an embodiment of the present invention, a patent abstract is automatically created from an application, a drawing, and an abstract at the time of processing a patent wrapper, and stored in a database. By retrieving abstracts, it is possible to reduce the load at the time of retrieval and to shorten the retrieval processing time.

When the searched patent document is manually checked, the content can be easily checked, so that the burden on the operator can be reduced.

[0014]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, one embodiment of the present invention includes a terminal application 101, a drive device (FDD) for a floppy disk 105, a patent document storage task (program) 102, a patent abstract storage task (program) 103, a patent file database. 104, and the patent zipper database 104 is preferably simultaneously accessible.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the present invention. The operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, the input of the patent document stored in the floppy disk 105 is input from the floppy disk device connected to the terminal 101 (FIG. 2). The patent document is composed of a request, a specification, an abstract, a drawing or a document describing a chemical formula or the like.

After inputting the patent document, the patent document storage task 10
2 is activated (of FIG. 2).

In the patent document storage task 102, the patent document is divided into document units, character codes are converted, and the result is output to the file 106 (FIG. 2).

In a patent abstract creation task 103, an application, an abstract, and drawings are read from the documents generated in the patent document storage task 102, and a patent abstract is generated. Here, the patent abstract is composed of, for example, the date of application extracted from the application, the title of the invention, the name of the inventor, the applicant, the problem extracted from the abstract, the solution, the drawing information of the selected drawing, etc. can do.

The patent document created by the patent document storage task 102 is stored in the patent envelope database 104 (FIG. 2).

The patent abstract created in the patent abstract creation task 103 is stored in the patent envelope database 104 (FIG. 2).
of).

The terminal application 101, the patent document storage task 102, and the patent abstract storage task 103 are preferably used in an interactive manner.

In the patent file database 103, the terminal 101 can access the file.

In the present embodiment, since the patent document is searched for the patent abstract stored in the patent file database 104 from the terminal 101, the search time is shortened.
In addition, for example, when checking whether or not an application of the same type has already been filed in selecting a patent application, searching the entire text of the specification of a patent application requires a load and time in the search process. According to the method described above, since the amount of documents to be checked is reduced, an increase in the number of work steps required for visual check is suppressed and reduced.

In the above embodiment, the input of the patent document stored in the floppy disk 105 is input from the floppy disk device connected to the terminal 101, but the patent document is input to the terminal via the network. Needless to say, this may be done.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

A first effect of the present invention is that the burden and time required for a search process in a patent document search process can be reduced.

The reason is that, in the present invention, in searching for a patent document, information is extracted from the patent document, and an automatically generated abstract is to be searched.

A second effect of the present invention is that it is possible to reduce the load and time required for visual inspection of a search target document.

The reason is that, in the present invention, the amount of documents to be confirmed is reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Terminal application 102 Patent document storage task 103 Patent abstract storage task 104 Patent wrapper database 105 Floppy disk (FD)

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In the process of creating a wrapper for a patent document, information is extracted from an application, an abstract, and a drawing constituting the patent document, a patent abstract is automatically created, and the created patent abstract is stored in a database. A patent abstract creation automatic creation method characterized by comprising means for storing. 2. A patent document storage means for classifying a patent document input to a terminal device into applications, specifications, abstracts, and drawings from a patent document input to a terminal device and storing the classified documents in a patent file database. Patent abstract storage that extracts predetermined information from the application, abstract, and drawing information output from the patent document storage means, automatically generates a patent abstract, and registers the generated patent abstract in the patent wrapper database. Means for automatically preparing a patent abstract. (A) a patent document storing process of classifying each of the input patent documents into documents of an application, a specification, an abstract, and a drawing and storing the classified documents in a patent file database; and (b) the patent document. Extracting predetermined information from the application, abstract, and drawing information output from the storage means to automatically generate a patent abstract, and registering the generated patent abstract in the patent wrapper database; And (b) a recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to execute each process is recorded.