KR101201218B1 - Method on Patent Information Processing Supporting Discovery of Niche Technology Area - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a patent information processing method for supporting niche technology area discovery that supports niche technology area discovery, and more particularly to patent information for supporting niche technology area discovery that supports niche technology area discovery using patent classification. It relates to a processing method.
The present invention comprises the steps of: (A) receiving from the user computer at least one or more first patent classification and at least one or more second patent classification on the patent classification code system; (B) extracting the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification received; And (C) generating an intersection area using the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification, and constructing at least one restriction patent document set having an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area. And processing the generated patent classification information included in the patent document, and providing the generated intersection area value to the user computer in correspondence with the intersection area.
According to the present invention, it is possible to systematically search for a niche description region candidate group, obtain various evaluation analysis information about the niche description region, and easily find the niche description region.

Description

Patent Information Processing Supporting Discovery of Niche Technology Area

The present invention relates to a patent information processing method for supporting niche technology area discovery that supports niche technology area discovery, and more particularly to patent information for supporting niche technology area discovery that supports niche technology area discovery using patent classification. It relates to a processing method.

Patent information has the characteristics of technical information, rights information and management information, and its importance is increasing in the global international competition. As the technical information, it is possible to know the trend of technology development and technical ideas applied to individual patents, and as the right information, it is possible to grasp the scope of rights of individual patents and the degree of nationalization of domestic and foreign rights.

There are many ways to obtain patent information, but there are largely 1) the use of patent information system provided by each country's patent office, 2) the use of patent information system developed by private companies, and 3) the individual company's purpose. It can be classified into using a patent information system that is properly constructed. A representative example of the method of 1) is a patent information system provided by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (www.kipo.go.kr) and the Korean Patent Information Service (www.kipris.or.kr), and 2) a representative example of the US www.delphion .com, www.patolis.co.jp in Japan, www.wips.co.kr in Korea and www.wisdomain.com.

Private companies in each country, such as Thomson Scientific, the operator of www.delphion.com, have established a database of patent information and provide search results in a variety of ways for search expressions entered through a patent search engine. In addition, various types of analysis software have been developed based on this patent information, and the software distributed under the trade name AUREKA developed by the operator of www.micropatent.com (acquired and acquired by Thomson Scientific) is famous. And, it is known that the technology giants around the world have built and operated patent retrieval and patent management systems inside, but it is difficult to access their patent retrieval and patent management systems from outside.

It is common to spend more than billions of dollars to construct such a patent search and patent management system, and most domestic and foreign mid-sized and small venture companies do not have their own patent search and patent management system. Many of these mid- to small- and mid-sized startups have a patent-only organization, which manages their patents and collects patent information for them. However, companies that are small in size or do not have high awareness of patents often do not have a dedicated patent organization. These companies are in charge of managing their patents by requesting patent law firms or law firms.

These patent organizations use externally accessible free online patent information service companies such as www.delphion.com to collect and manage patent information on the platform they provide. In addition, most of the patent applications in the name of the company is made by the inventors belonging to the company, the inventors of the global trend to collect domestic and foreign patent information related to their invention. The reason for this is that despite the existence of the patent publication period, more than 70% of the world's new technology information is disclosed in the form of patent information, and because the patent information has many commercially available ideas compared to the paper information and the like. However, many of these inventors, even if they are not used to patent searching or who are familiar with searching, have access to external patent information service providers such as www.delphion.com to obtain patent information.

It is common for the inventors to continuously study the specific technical field for several years to several decades, so that the technical field of the invention of the present invention is not greatly changed. Therefore, the patent technical information of the country or foreign countries about the field directly or indirectly related to the technical field invented by him will be useful information to the inventor. Therefore, it has been requested to supply a differentiated patent information service system for a specific inventor, which is operated by the inventor unit of the company as well as an individual company unit, and optimized to the inventor unit. Such a patent information service system has been developed by itself. It will greatly improve access to patent information for medium and small venture companies that cannot be maintained and will be a new platform for in-house patent information distribution for companies that can develop and maintain their own.

The AUREKA service of FIG. 8 extracts keywords through text mining and co-occurrences them to provide a contour map. Or there is no technical meaning for areas where keywords are not dense (there is no grid (latitude / longitude, coordinate axes) in AUREKA).

Accordingly, in order to detect and preempt niche technology early, the development of services or systems that systematically support the discovery of niche technology areas and niche technology areas has been urgently required.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an information processing method for systematically finding a gap region.

The second technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to propose a method for providing evaluation analysis information on the niche area.

In order to achieve the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention, to provide patent information to the user computer requesting the patent information through a wired or wireless network, or to support the discovery of the niche technology area for providing the patent information to the user on the user computer A processing method comprising: (A) receiving at least one or more first patent classifications and at least one or more second patent classifications on a patent classification code system from the user computer; (B) extracting the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification received; And (C) generating an intersection area using the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification, and constructing at least one restriction patent document set having an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area. Generating and processing the patent classification information included in the patent document, and providing the generated intersection area value to the user computer in correspondence with the intersection area, wherein the patent classification code system is IPC, F-term. At least one of UPSC and ECLA, wherein the preset restricted patent document set is a subset of the entire patent document set, a subset of the at least one shared property set, and an operator of the patent information system. A subset that satisfies at least one or more conditions to be granted and a note to be given by the user of the patent information system Any one set of patent documents selected from a subset that satisfies one or more conditions, or a combination of two or more patent documents, wherein the attributes are applicant, inventor, patent classification system, patent documents, keywords, One or any combination of two or more selected from a period or a date, a technology group, and a product family, wherein the keyword is any one or more of a keyword and a key keyword input or selected by the user, and the key keyword is determined by the patent information system. The core keyword is generated by processing a patent document, wherein the core keyword includes at least one of a technology keyword related to a technology and a product keyword related to a product, and the technology group includes the generated at least one key keyword and the patent classification code. At least one feature belonging to the system Generated by the patent information system or the user by using any one or more of the fictitious classification symbols, and the product family is any of at least one or more product classification symbols belonging to at least one or more product keywords and at least one product classification symbol system. Disclosed is a patent information processing method which supports discovery of a niche technology region, which is generated by the patent information system or the user using one or more.

The first patent classification and the second patent classification are of a first method having a sibling relationship belonging to the same patent classification code system, a second method belonging to the same patent classification code system but not having a sibling relationship, different patent classifications It is preferable that any one of the third methods selected from the symbol system is used.

In the step (C), the method for providing an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area transmitted to the user computer may include the intersection area value being a lower patent classification of the first patent classification and a lower patent classification of the second patent classification. It is preferable that the matrix is provided or displayed in the intersection area constituting the cube.

The lower patent classification of step (B) is a first patent classification obtaining method for obtaining a direct patent classification of the obtained first patent classification, a second patent classification for obtaining two or more subordinate patent classifications of the first patent classification. It is preferable to perform any one of a acquisition method and the 3rd patent classification acquisition method which acquires all the subpatent classification of the said 1st patent classification.

(D) obtaining extended selection information for at least one of a lower patent classification of the first patent classification and a lower patent classification of the second patent classification provided to the user computer; (E) a first patent classification obtaining method for obtaining a subordinate patent classification, a second patent classification obtaining method for obtaining two or more subordinate patent classifications, and all subordinates, for the lower patent classification code obtained with the extension selection information; Extending the patent classification by performing any one of the third method of obtaining a patent classification to obtain a patent classification; it is preferable to further implement.

(F) when an extension of the patent classification occurs in any one or more of the lower patent classification and the second patent classification of the first patent classification, the lower patent classification and the first patent classification of the first patent classification including the patent classification in which the expansion has occurred. A cross region is generated as a lower patent classification of two patent classifications, and a cross region value corresponding to the cross region is processed and generated by processing patent classification information included in a patent document constituting a limited patent document set, and the generated cross region. And providing a value to the user computer corresponding to the intersection area.

In the step (C), it is preferable that the cross-sectional area value is generated by including the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and all lower patent classifications of the lower patent classification of the second patent classification.

In the step (C), the method for providing an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area transmitted to the user computer may include the intersection area value being a lower patent classification of the first patent classification and a lower patent classification of the second patent classification. It is provided that is displayed in the intersection area constituting the matrix constituting the matrix, it is preferable that the matrix comprises at least one or more first patent classification and at least two or more second patent classification.

The type of the crossing area value may include one type of measurement value, an operation value of processing one preset measurement value, an operation value of processing two preset measurement operations, and the measurement value Or an expression value corresponding to the operation value.

Preferably, the measured value and the calculated value are values obtained by calculating any one patent index value or at least two patent index values.

Preferably, the measured value to the calculated value are any one of a rate of increase and decrease, a rate of increase and decrease, a rate value occupied by a predetermined attribute, a quantitative evaluation value, and a qualitative evaluation value.

(G) dividing the intersection area into at least two predetermined categories; And (H) applying a preset expression for each category.

The intersection area value is configured to include at least one preset expression unit corresponding to the attribute, and the expression unit is preferably configured by applying any one or more of figures, diagrams, color classification, and color blurring. .

The crossing area value is to be displayed separately for each time interval according to a predetermined time interval, and the method of displaying separately is 1) a method of displaying a plurality in different areas of the user computer screen and 2) a user computer. It is preferable to use any one or more of the method of displaying one by the preset refresh time unit in the same area of the screen.

(I) calling a cross-section evaluation model established with at least two cross-section evaluation indices for evaluating the cross-section; And (J) inputting an intersection region evaluation index value corresponding to the intersection region into the intersection region evaluation model and calculating the intersection region evaluation value.

A predetermined process is performed based on the crossing area evaluation value of step (J), and the predetermined processing is given a predetermined division mark and at least one ranking for the crossing area based on the crossing area evaluation value. It is preferable to include any one or more of the list provided with a ranking according to the criteria.

(K) receiving selection information on a set of self documents sharing at least one property from the user computer; (L) performing a predetermined process on the basis of the intersection area of the patent information included in the patent document included in the self-document set; It is preferable to carry out further.

Preferably, the predetermined processing is to generate the relationship information based on the patent information included in the patent document included in the self-document set for the intersection area.

Preferably, the relationship information is the applicant's predetermined at least one business entry (new area pioneer / strength field / strength field).

Preferably, the predetermined processing is to display the patent information included in the patent document included in the self-document set in the intersection area.

The limited patent document set is divided into a self-document set and at least one comparison document set, and the step (C) is performed by combining the self-document set and the comparison document set by the first document set processing method, the self-document set and the comparison. A second document set processing method for generating a cross-section value separately by separately separating a set of documents and a third document for separately performing the self-document set and the comparison document set separately and generating a cross-section value. It is preferable to perform more than one method of a collection processing method.

The present invention enables the discovery of niche technical areas and enables the generation of various evaluation analysis information about the analyzed object and the found object.

1 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary network configuration of a patent information system of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary embodiment of a patent information system of the present invention.
3 is an exemplary diagram of a data processing unit of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary view of a niche description region discovery unit of the present invention.
5 is an exemplary diagram of an additional service provider of the present invention.
Figure 6 is an exemplary view of the discovery of gap areas of the present invention.
7 is another exemplary embodiment of the discovery of a gap region of the present invention.
8 is an exemplary view of a prior art Aureka analysis result screen. In this screen, it can be seen that there is no technical name of the title, legend, zone, and cell of the coordinate axis.
FIG. 9 is an exemplary diagram of a method for processing the selection of the first patent classification code for the X axis and the selection of the second patent classification for the Y axis for the discovery of a gap region of the present invention.
10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a gap area discovery analysis result of the present invention. In this screen, it can be seen that the technical name corresponds to each axis and zone / cell. The X axis corresponds to the purpose / effect of the F-term 5D107AA mechanical vibration generator, and the Y axis corresponds to the use of the F-term 5D107BB mechanical vibration generator.
11 is another exemplary diagram illustrating a result of a gap region discovery analysis of the present invention. In this screen, you can see that the thermograph effect is applied to each axis and zone / cell.
FIG. 12 is a diagram of a portion of a patent classification system showing sibling nodes of H01B 1/06 at the bottom of H01B 1/00 and lower patent classification nodes of H01B 1/06.
FIG. 13 is an exemplary diagram of information on the catchwords for the IPCs provided by the WIPO.
14 is an exemplary diagram of an index for a USPC provided by the USPTO.

Hereinafter, it demonstrates in detail, referring drawings.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the patent information system 1000 of the present invention provides an information service to a user computer 5000 through a wired / wireless network 9000. The patent information system 1000 may be connected to at least one link system 3000 and a wired / wireless network 9000. Examples of the link system 3000 are patent offices or raw data providers of each country that provide patent raw data. An example may be a system, a system of an enterprise information provider, and the like, and at least one or more systems that provide services by linking the services of the patent information system 1000 of the present invention may be examples, and the present invention is not limited to the description.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the patent information system 1000 includes a data unit 100, a data processing unit 200, a search processing unit 300, an analysis information generating unit 400, and an additional service providing unit ( 800) and the like. The data unit 100 includes a patent data unit 110 and a non-patent data unit 120. The patent data unit 110 includes a patent specification file unit 111, a patent DB 112, and a patent classification DB. 113 and other classification DB section 114 is included.

The patent DB 112 manages bibliographic matters of all patents, the specification body, and drawings for each field, and various fields (title, summary, prior art, claims, detailed description, etc.) constituting the specification body. Contains key keywords extracted from. Meanwhile, the patents may further include citation information as prior art documents for the patents. Taking the US patent data as an example, the cited information includes information included in the reference, including US patent document numbers, foreign patent document numbers, and indicators for non-patent documents. On the other hand, prior art research information by examiners or related persons of the Patent Office, and information on the examination when submitting the examiner's opinion are broad citation information. If there is forward citation information in a specific document, the specific document is a backward citation document from the viewpoint of the document included in the forward citation information. The document included in the forward citation information based on the specific document becomes the parent document and the specific document becomes the child document based on the parent document. It is obvious to those skilled in the art to process the information in the child-parent relationship with the DB, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The bibliography of the patent document includes the issuing country information, various date information, various number information, at least one owner information, at least one inventor information, at least one patent classification information, at least one priority information, and the like. The date includes the filing date, the date of publication, the date of registration, and other dates. The various number information includes an application number, a public number, a registration number, an original number, and a priority claim number. The right holder information includes the applicant, the assignee, the patent owner, etc. If there is a change in the right holder and the change is managed, there may be information about the transferor and the assignee and information about the right holder. Priority information includes information such as priority claim number, date of claim, and country. On the other hand, when there is a split application, partial continuation application, continuation application, etc., information such as an original number, date of the original source is added. In addition, bibliographies may include representations, titles, abstracts, and index words. Meanwhile, the bibliographies processed include domestic family information (such as a split application, a change of application, or a part of a continuation application, a patent application that is related to a continuation application), overseas family information (an application that may be related to a treaty priority relationship, This can be. On the other hand, the text of the patent specification body may be further extracted by a keyword extracting method for each field or combination of fields constituting the main text through natural language processing or the like. In addition to the common IPC, the patent classification information may have a unique patent classification for each country such as USPC, FT, FI, ECLA, etc.

FIG. 12 is a diagram of a portion of a patent classification system showing sibling nodes of H01B 1/06 at the bottom of H01B 1/00 and lower patent classification nodes of H01B 1/06. Thus, the patent classification has a hierarchical structure. Patent classification of the present invention, the patent classification includes IPC, USPC, FT, FI, ECLA.

An index, also called a catchword, refers to a system in which at least one patent classification is associated with a word, phrase, or clause. Among the indexes, there is a catchword that processes the IPC, and there is an index to USPC issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The index also has a hierarchical structure like a patent classification. In the index, keywords corresponding to product names / part names / element descriptions are often embedded. The index makes the classification of patents easy to find and examples are shown in FIGS. 13 and 14. FIG. 13 is a catchword for IPC provided by WIPO and information about them is ipcr _ catchwordindex _20100101 at http://www.wipo.int/ipc/itos4ipc/ITSupport_and_download_area/20100101/MasterFiles/ as of March 2010 . Available as a zip file. 13, it can be seen that G06C 1/00 corresponds to ABACUSES. In this case, ABACUSES is called an index corresponding to G06C 1/00. Accordingly, G06C 1/00 can be reverse mapped to Abacuses. Meanwhile, as can be seen from the index ABARADING in FIG. 13, it can be seen that the catchword system has at least one hierarchical structure. ABARADING shows that it is a two-tier hierarchy.

14 is a USPTO index to the USPC information about them can be found at http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/uspcindex/indextouspc.htm as of March 2010. It can be seen that the index abrading is classified into three levels of hierarchy in the contents of FIG. 14. It can be seen that the index Abrading corresponds to USPC 451/38, and there is a patent classification of a class other than Class 451 in the lower index of Abrading.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, the data processor includes a core keyword generator, a classification metadata generator, and a purpose-specific data generator. For the niche discovery service, a classification metadata generation unit is required, and in order to analyze the found niche description area, a core keyword generation unit and a purpose-specific data generation unit are required.

As shown in FIG. 4, the niche description region discovery unit 730 includes a patent document set selection unit 731, an n-dimensional matrix selection unit 733, a prior patent display unit, a network diagram comparison unit 732, and a niche. The description area evaluation information generation unit 735 and the like are included. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of an additional service providing unit 800 of the patent information system 1000 of the present invention. Next, the technical idea of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the niche description region discovery unit 730 of the present invention.

The patent document set selecting unit 731 includes a patent set obtaining unit for obtaining a patent set and an acquired patent set limiting unit for defining the obtained patent set. The acquisition target patent set generation unit includes a target patent set acquisition unit for acquiring the target patent set and a target patent set limitation unit for defining the target patent set. The target patent set obtaining unit queries a search engine for a search engine, queries a query expression for a DBMS, or a patent including at least one patent document or patent document ID managed by a user who uses the patent information system 1000. A set of documents or at least one or more patent search or query expressions can be called, created or selected.

The patent document set selecting unit 731 may include 1) inputting a search word to a search engine or 2) inputting a query utilizing a field constituting the patent DB 112, 3) extracting patent information corresponding to the search word or the query. It may be generated by inputting or selecting a condition. The patent information extraction condition may be any one of the issuing country, time range, applicant, owner or assignee, inventor, patent classification, (if there is a patent subject classification and a predetermined classification attribute, etc.) included in the patent document. Or a combination of any two or more of the above, wherein the time that is the basis of the time range is any one or any combination of two or more of the priority date, application date, publication date, and registration date of the patent document, and the patent classification Is any one or combination of two or more of IPC, USPC, FT, FI, and ECLA, and the patent subject classification is one or more of the catchword of the IPC, the catchword of the USPC, or the IPC, USPC, FT, FI, and ECLA. Is one or more of the subject classifications generated using, and the predetermined classification attribute is the applicant or the owner or the assignee For the classification properties can be, or any one or more of the patent subject by Category classification properties of the classified-patent classification properties, the inventors constituting the category attribute, the patent classification. For example, when there is a distinction between an applicant, a company, a university, a research institute, an individual, etc., the applicant may be limited to only applicants having university attributes, and applicants having a specific number of applied / registered patents for a specific period of time. Applicant) may be limited only.

Meanwhile, the patent document set selector 731 calls, selects, or obtains a forward cited patent set, a back cited patent set, a forward self cited patent set, a back self cited patent set, a citation generation obtained patent set, and the like of a specific patent set. can do. When the acquisition target patent set generation unit applies specific conditions to define the target patent set, the target patent is obtained from the data unit by reflecting the above conditions. The patent information patent information system 1000 may generate and manage patent sets for at least one or more categories, and the management of the patent sets is performed by the patent information manager 1000 of the present invention. Under the patent set management unit of the patent information system 1000, a patent set management unit for each applicant managing a patent set specific to each applicant, a patent set management unit for each patent classification managing a patent set specified for each patent classification, and for each other classification or category. There are other classification patent set management departments that manage specific patent sets. On the other hand, the patent set generated by the user is performed by the member patent set management unit.

Next, the method of the information processing by the niche description region discovery unit 730 of the present invention will be described. The niche description region finder 730 obtains a document set selected by the document set selector, and obtains a kind of n-dimensional matrix obtained by the n-dimensional matrix selector 733.

A simple example of the n-dimensional matrix obtained by the n-dimensional matrix selector 733 is shown in FIG. 10. It can be seen that the X axis of FIG. 10 corresponds to the purpose / effect of the mechanical vibration generating device of the F-term 5D107AA, and the use of the mechanical vibration generating device of the F-term 5D107BB corresponds to the Y axis. That is, the simplest example of an n-dimensional matrix is a two-dimensional matrix, with each dimension forming an axis. Each axis may be each item of a bibliographic item or a processed bibliographic item which may be classified as patent classification, applicant, time, inventor, index, and the like. The patent classification may be used simultaneously on two or more axes of the same patent classification, which may be any of IPC, USPC, FT, FI and ECLA, one of which is IPC and the other of two or more types of patent classification, such as FT Could be used for

FIG. 9 is an exemplary diagram of a method for the n-dimensional matrix selector 733 to process the selection of the first patent classification symbol for the X axis and the selection of the second patent classification for the Y axis, in order to find the gap region of the present invention. to be. The n-dimensional matrix selector 733 may select at least one classification of a specific depth according to the patent classification hierarchy. At this time, the n-dimensional matrix selection unit 733 is to bring the lower patent classification of the selected patent classification from the patent classification DB. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a gap area discovery analysis result of the present invention. In this screen, it can be seen that the technical name corresponds to each axis and zone / cell. The X axis corresponds to the purpose / effect of the F-term 5D107AA mechanical vibration generator, and the Y axis corresponds to the use of the F-term 5D107BB mechanical vibration generator. The n-dimensional matrix selector 733 obtains F-term 5D107AA01 to F-term 5D107AA20 under F-term 5D107AA when the user selects the purpose / effect of the F-term 5D107AA mechanical vibration generating device on the X-axis. To form the X-axis. Of course, the user can of course delete the ones he does not want among the components of the selected X-axis. The n-dimensional matrix selector 733 may select information corresponding to the other Y-axis in the same manner.

When the patent document set and axis are determined as described above, a matrix consisting of mXn cells composed of m horizontally n vertically n as shown in FIG. 10 is conceptually generated. The (mi, nj) cell corresponds to a subset of patent documents. For example, if mi and nj are patent classifications, (mi, nj) will receive all patents of the selected patent document set that includes patent classifications mi and nj simultaneously, and these patents will be assigned to the patent document set. Part of the patent document. At this time, when there is a patent classification among mi or nj, not only the kind of patent classification but also a problem of main patent classification and sub patent classification occurs. The patent document includes at least one main patent classification, and in some cases, one or more sub patent classifications may be included, so the scope of the patent classification to be used is problematic. This may be provided as an option, and the user may select which patent classification to use. Where possible, it would be more reasonable to use both main and sub patent classifications.

Subsequently, the analysis of the patent document subset corresponding to the (mi, nj) cell is started, which is processed by the niche description region evaluation information generator 735 of the present invention. The niche description region evaluation information generation unit 735 generates evaluation information preset for the patent document subset. Firstly, the niche description region evaluation information generation unit 735 may determine the number of claims, the original (independent) claim length, and the number of pages for each patent unit belonging to the patent document subset and / or for each patent set unit belonging to the patent document subset. , Number of Drawings, Number of Domestic Families (Split + US Continue / Partial), Number of Families Filing Overseas, Number of Families Registered Overseas, Number of Claims in Domestic Priority, Large Company, Status of Overseas Applicant, Number of Claimants Disputed The number of disputes, the total number of disputes, the number of disputes in the last three years, the total number of defendants, the average number of defendants in the last three years, the annual registration period, whether the standard patent pool is included, whether or not the transfer occurred, the number of citations, the number of references, the number of IPCs, and the number of subclasses Number of IPCs, USPCs, USPCs with different Classes, FTs, FTs with Different Themes, (Co) Applicants, (Co) Inventors, Inventor Nationality, Economic Remaining Life of Rights, IPC Main Group US applications No. of US applications for 3 years based on IPC main group, US for 3 years based on USPC no dot subgroup, US for 3 years based on IPC main group No. of US applications for last 3 years, non US for 3 years based on IPC main group No. of applications / non-US applications in recent 10 years, USPC no dot subgroups No. of US applications in recent 3 years / US applications in recent 10 years, percentage of firms in IPC main group for 3 years, ratio of large firms in IPC main group for 3 years, Percentage of universities / research institutions in the last three years based on the IPC main group, Not assigned in the last three years based on the IPC main group, Percentage of US holders in the last three years based on the IPC main group, Percentile date of filing, Total similarity Proportion of own patents in the population, Proprietary patents in back citations, Proprietary patents in forward citations, Proprietary patents in back citations, Proprietary patents in forward citations, Proportion of companies in forward citation patents, Forward citations Large company ratio in patent group, university / research institution ratio in forward citation patent group, individual ratio in forward citation patent group, US owner ratio in forward citation patent group, article ratio in forward citation group, non citation in forward citation US patent ratio, percentage of firms in back-cited patent group, ratio of large companies in back-cited patent group, university / research ratio in back-cited patent group, individual ratio in back-cited patent group, US in back-cited patent group Rights holder ratio, non-US patent ratio in back citations, own patent ratio in the overall similarity population, 5-year focused area (AI), 5-year average patent quality index, 5-year index rating, 5-year joint applicants, 5-year Focus Area Accuracy (AI), 5-Year Average Patent Quality Index, 5-Year Index Rating, 5-Year Co-Inventors, Number of Licensees Established, Applicant Finance, 5-Year Country-Related Patents, 5-Year Country-Registration, 5-Year Country relative Number of causes, relative inventors by country for 5 years, relative applicants by country for 5 years, percentage of companies among applicants for 5 years, percentage of universities among applicants for 5 years, relative registration of applicants by country for 5 years, country by country Applicant's application volume, 5-year country's specific applicant's registration volume, Rising keyword field by technology field (claims) Coverage, 5-year country's frequency rising rate, 5-year country's network size rising rate, Key keyword's patent Number of Claims Included, Five-Year Application Growth Rate, Five-Year Country Registration Growth, Five-Year Number of Applicants, Five-Year Inventor Growth, Five-Year Enterprises, Five-Year Colleges, Five Calculate or obtain any one or more of the niche technology domain evaluation factors, such as year-specific applicant inclusion rates, patent counts, life cycle positions, and annual registration payments. In the niche description area evaluation element, the change value (rate of increase / decrease rate, increase rate, etc.) of the evaluation elements exemplified in this paragraph will also be an evaluation element.

The niche description region evaluation information generation unit 735 may calculate the niche description region evaluation element value for each cell and express the result in the cell. The cell contains processing results for at least one of the niche description region evaluation element values. The niche description region evaluation information generation unit 735 generates an evaluation result by using at least one predetermined evaluation model (an evaluation formula, which is a niche description evaluation element value as an input variable), using the niche description region evaluation element value. do. 10 shows an example of niche description region evaluation information for each cell by displaying the evaluation results for each cell in color for each cell. For example, when the niche description region evaluation information generating unit 735 refers to the niche description region evaluation element value as the number of applications of each cell, the number of applications in red color is within 1% of the percentile, and yellow is 5 in order. The niche description area evaluation information generation reference value may be embedded, such as within%. The niche description region evaluation information generation reference value refers to information on how to generate the niche description region evaluation information and then display the generated niche description region evaluation information. Meanwhile, when the niche description area evaluation information generation reference value is a display according to the increase / decrease rate of the number of applications, the red color may be within 5% of the increase / decrease rate.

Meanwhile, the patent document subset corresponding to the cell may be divided into a quantitative evaluation element portion and a qualitative evaluation element portion. For example, the qualitative evaluation element may be a patent evaluation score value of an individual patent or a value obtained by processing the patent evaluation score value. For example, when there are two cells with 10 patents, one cell may have an average score of 70 out of 100, while the other cell may have 90 points. At this time, it can be seen that a number of cells having a score of 90 are herpes important. On the other hand, even if a specific cell has a small number of patents, but there are a relatively large number of high-evaluation patents, the cell may be an important cell. In this case, it may be an important cell.

Furthermore, for a specific cell, the niche description region conformance information of the specific cell may be generated using a predetermined function. The method for generating niche description region conformance information by the niche description region evaluation information generating unit 735 includes a quantitative evaluation index axis (X axis) and a qualitative evaluation index axis (Y axis) with respect to the patent document subset of the specific cell. Nich description region conformance information may be generated by generating an evaluation plane and evaluating in which position the average position of the patent document subset of a specific cell exists. For example, the coordinates of a particular cell in the quartile evaluation plane if the application volume within five years is the quantitative index (X axis) and the average (or top 50%) patent score is the qualitative index (Y axis). You can set the value. For example, if the application volume is small and the average score is high, the cell is likely to be a rising technology area. On the other hand, if a particular cell has a large application volume and a low average score, the cell is likely to be a saturated technology region rather than a niche description region.

FIG. 11 is another exemplary diagram illustrating a result of a niche region discovery analysis according to the present invention, and each axis, zone / area for niche description region evaluation information generated by using a niche description region evaluation element value different from FIG. 10. It can be seen that the thermograph effect is applied to the cell.

On the other hand, when a patent document subset for the cell value is determined, predetermined analysis information may be provided for patents belonging to the patent document subset. If a patent document corresponds to the patent document subset, quantitative analysis information may be provided for the patents included in the patent document subset (the axis of analysis is time, applicant, inventor, patent classification, country, registration). And bibliography and full text of individual patents.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the inventive concept as described above can be extended to three or more n-dimensional matrices, in which case the cell value will be in the form of an n-dimensional cube. On the other hand, since the user can only visually confirm up to two dimensions of information, the user can select two of the desired dimensions among the n dimensions, and can view the niche technology evaluation information on the selected dimension. In the generated cube data, the patent information system 1000 may provide the user computer 5000 with an interface for processing slice and dice information to select a desired matrix or to change an axis or the like with respect to the selected matrix. Could be.

The hierarchical structure exemplified in the inventive concept may be applied not only to the patent classification but also to the IPC corresponding catchwords illustrated in FIGS. 13 to 14 or the USPC corresponding index.

The present invention can be applied to the patent information industry and technical information-based consulting industry as a whole.

100: data part
1000: Patent Information System
110: patent data section
110: patent data section
111: Patent specification file section
112: Patent DB
113: Patent Classification DB
114: classification DB section
120: non-patent data portion
200: data processing unit
300: search processing unit
3000: Linkage System
400: analysis information generation unit
5000: User Computer
730: Nich technology area discovery unit
731: patent document set selection unit
732: Network diagram comparator
733 n-dimensional matrix selection unit
734: prior patent display portion
735: niche technology area evaluation information generator
800: additional service provider
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Claims (22)

In the patent information processing method of a patent information system for providing patent information service to a user computer requesting patent information through a wired or wireless network, or for supporting the discovery of niche technology areas for providing the patent information to the user on the user computer,
(A0) generating a selection document set by selecting a patent document set including at least one patent through a query or a search expression or an extraction condition;
(A) receiving from the user computer at least one or more first patent classifications and at least one or more second patent classifications on the patent classification code system;
(B) extracting the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification received; And
(C) a cross region is generated by a lower patent classification of the first patent classification and a lower patent classification of the second patent classification, and the cross region value corresponding to the cross region is included in the patent document constituting the selected patent document set. Generating and processing the included patent classification information and providing the generated intersection area value to the user computer in correspondence with the intersection area;
The patent classification code system is any one or more of IPC, F-term, UPSC, ECLA,
The selected patent document set is a subset of the entire patent document set consisting of all patent documents, a subset sharing at least one or more attributes, a subset that satisfies at least one or more conditions imposed by an operator of the patent information system, and It is one set of patent documents selected from a subset that satisfies at least one or more conditions granted by the user of the patent information system, or any two or more sets of combined patent documents,
The attribute is any one or any combination of two or more selected from the applicant, inventor, patent classification system, patent documents, keywords, period or date, technology group and product family,
The keyword is one or more of a keyword and a key keyword entered or selected by the user,
The core keyword is generated by the patent information system processing any one or more of the patent documents constituting the selected patent document set and the entire patent documents constituting the entire patent document set,
The key keyword includes one or more of a technology keyword related to a technology and a product keyword related to a product.
The technology group is generated by the patent information system or the user using at least one of the generated at least one key keyword and at least one patent classification code belonging to the patent classification code system.
The niche is generated by the patent information system or the user using at least one of the at least one product keyword and at least one of the at least one product classification code belonging to the at least one product classification code system. Patent information processing method that assists in the discovery of technical areas. The method of claim 1,
The first patent classification and the second patent classification are of a first method having a sibling relationship belonging to the same patent classification code system, a second method belonging to the same patent classification code system but not having a sibling relationship, different patent classifications A patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of niche technology regions, wherein any one of the third methods selected from the symbol system is used. The method of claim 1,
In the step (C)
A method of providing an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area transmitted to the user computer may include
The niche description area discovery is provided by displaying the intersection area value in a crossing area constituting a matrix or a cube constituted by the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification. Supporting patent information processing method. The method of claim 1,
The lower patent classification of step (B) is a first patent classification obtaining method for obtaining a direct patent classification of the obtained first patent classification, a second patent classification for obtaining two or more subordinate patent classifications of the first patent classification. And a third patent classification obtaining method which obtains all subordinate patent classifications of the first patent classification. The method of claim 1,
(D) obtaining extended selection information for at least one of a lower patent classification of the first patent classification and a lower patent classification of the second patent classification provided to the user computer;
(E) a first patent classification obtaining method for obtaining a subordinate patent classification, a second patent classification obtaining method for obtaining two or more subordinate patent classifications, and all subordinates, for the lower patent classification code obtained with the extension selection information; And extending the patent classification by performing any one of a third method of obtaining a patent classification to obtain a patent classification. The patent information processing method of claim 1, wherein the patent classification is further performed. The method of claim 5,
(F) when an extension of the patent classification occurs in any one or more of the lower patent classification and the second patent classification of the first patent classification, the lower patent classification and the first patent classification of the first patent classification including the patent classification in which the expansion has occurred. A cross region is generated as a lower patent classification of two patent classifications, and a cross region value corresponding to the cross region is generated by processing the patent classification information included in the patent documents included in the selected patent document set, and the generated cross region. And providing an area value corresponding to the intersection area to the user computer, wherein the patent information processing method supports niche technology area discovery. The method of claim 1,
In the step (C), the cross-sectional area value is generated by including the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and all lower patent classifications of the lower patent classification of the second patent classification. Patent information processing method that assists in the discovery of technical areas. The method of claim 1,
In the step (C)
A method of providing an intersection area value corresponding to the intersection area transmitted to the user computer may include
The intersection area value is provided by displaying the intersection area constituting the matrix of the lower patent classification of the first patent classification and the lower patent classification of the second patent classification.
And said matrix comprises at least one or more first patent classifications and at least two or more second patent classifications. The method of claim 1,
The type of the crossing area value may include one type of measurement value, an operation value of processing one preset measurement value, an operation value of processing two preset measurement operations, and the measurement value Or a representation value corresponding to the operation value. 10. The method of claim 9,
And said measured value and arithmetic value are values obtained by calculating a predetermined patent index value or at least two patent index values. 10. The method of claim 9,
And the measured value to the calculated value are any one of a change rate, a increase rate, a rate value occupied by a predetermined attribute, a quantitative evaluation value, and a qualitative evaluation value. The method of claim 1,
(G) dividing the intersection area into at least two predetermined categories; And
(H) applying a predetermined expression for each category; patent information processing method that supports the discovery of niche technology area, characterized in that for further implementing. The method of claim 1,
The intersection area value is configured to include at least one preset expression unit corresponding to the attribute.
The expression unit is a patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of a niche technology region, characterized in that any one or more of a figure, a diagram, color classification or color blur is applied. The method of claim 1,
The intersection area value is to be displayed separately for each time interval according to a preset time interval.
The separately displayed method may be any one or more of 1) a method of displaying a plurality in different areas of the user's computer screen, and 2) a method of displaying one in a predetermined refresh time unit on the same area of the user's computer screen. Patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of niche technology region, characterized in that. The method of claim 1,
(I) calling a cross-section evaluation model established with at least two cross-section evaluation indices for evaluating the cross-section; And
(J) inputting an intersection area evaluation index value corresponding to the intersection area into the intersection area evaluation model and calculating an intersection area evaluation value; further comprising patent information for supporting niche technology area discovery. Treatment method. 16. The method of claim 15,
A predetermined process is performed based on the crossing area evaluation value of step (J), and the predetermined processing is given a predetermined division mark and at least one ranking for the crossing area based on the crossing area evaluation value. Patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of niche technology area, characterized in that it comprises any one or more of the list provided the ranking according to the criteria. The method of claim 1,
(K) receiving selection information on a set of self documents sharing at least one property from the user computer; And
(L) performing a predetermined process on the basis of the intersection area of the patent information included in the patent document included in the self-document set; The patent information processing method which supports discovery of niche technology area | region further characterized by the above-mentioned. 18. The method of claim 17,
The predetermined processing is to generate the relationship information based on the patent information included in the patent document included in the self-document set for the cross region, patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of niche technology region. . 19. The method of claim 18,
The relationship information is patent information processing method for supporting the discovery of niche technology area, characterized in that the applicant's predetermined at least one business entry field. 19. The method of claim 18,
Setting a coordinate value according to a predetermined formula corresponding to the patent document set on an evaluation plane formed of a quantitative evaluation index axis and a qualitative evaluation index axis with respect to the patent document set corresponding to the intersection area. Patent information processing method that supports the discovery of niche technology areas. 21. The method of claim 20,
And the predetermined processing is to display the patent information included in the patent documents included in the self document set on the intersection area. The method of claim 1,
The selected patent document set is divided into a self-document set and at least one comparison document set, and the step (C) is performed by combining the self-document set and the comparative document set with a first document set processing method, the self-document set and the comparison. A second document set processing method for generating a cross-section value separately by separately separating a set of documents and a third document for separately performing the self-document set and the comparison document set separately, and generating a cross-section value. The patent information processing method which supports the niche description area | region discovery characterized by carrying out any one or more methods of an aggregation processing method.

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