KR101575797B1 - A automatic recording system for information about reading operations of patent documents and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

When a user terminal accesses a patent search system to browse a patent document, the user captures a transaction of the browse operation to extract and store job information, and performs browsing of a patent document constituting the browse operation as an association structure (A) capturing a browsing transaction between a user terminal and a patent search system, and obtaining a previous browsing operation; (b) extracting and storing the job information of the captured browsing job; (c) arranging a working relationship between browsing operations by a work order as an association structure.

According to the system and method as described above, the user can structurally automatically record a series of work flows for browsing a patent document, so that the user can observe the flow of his work at a glance .

Patent document, viewing, association structure, tree structure, log, record, time

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a system and a method for reading a patent document,

The present invention relates to a system and method for searching a patent document by accessing a patent search system and browsing a patent document, extracting and storing job information by capturing a transaction of the browsing operation, And more particularly, to a system and method for browsing documents.

Generally, patent search means searching for a patent document related to a certain technology or having a similar technical content. At this time, the patent document mainly refers to a publicly disclosed public notice, and the public notice includes a public notice or a registration public notice. In addition, patent documents include utility models in addition to patents.

However, patent documents are structurally structured rather than general documents. The entire patent document is divided into bibliographic and text contents. The bibliography of the patent document shall include the identification number of the patent document such as the application number, the publication number, the registration number, and the identification of the patent document such as the name of the invention, the applicant, the inventor, the agent, the IPC classification, the filing date, Rights and so on. The contents of this text contain the original contents of the patent. However, the contents of the text are also structured in terms of content, such as summary, claim range, drawing, background description, and detailed explanation.

On the other hand, the patent search is performed by searching a patent document structured as described above, limiting the items such as a bibliography or the use of a search term for the contents of the text, and extracting a patent document suitable for the patent. Then, the contents of the patent document are examined individually for the selected patent document, and it is confirmed whether or not the patent document is to be sought. At this time, the way of reading the patent document for reviewing the contents of the patent document varies in the way of checking the entire original text of the patent document, the summary, the scope of claim, drawings, and the method of checking only a part of the important bibliography. Also, in order to browse the patent document more effectively, there is a method of collecting only the most important matters of the contents of the patent document.

In addition, there is a method of linking with another patent document having a relation among the patent document viewing method and reading the patent document. For example, there is a citation relation indicating another patent document cited by a patent document, or a family relation that is related to a patent document filed by each country in the same original source. Some of the patent search systems link patent documents in these citation relationships or family relations with each other, so that one patent document can be browsed and another patent document can be directly linked to a link for browsing.

In summary, the process of retrieving a patent document includes a retrieval operation for extracting a retrieval result, which is a set of a set of patent documents, using a retrieval expression, and a browsing operation for directly confirming the contents of a patent document belonging to the retrieval result set It is an iterative process.

On the other hand, as described above, the traces of the repeated operations for retrieving the patent document are important for users who frequently search. Users who frequently use search frequently search for specific areas frequently, and there are often overlapping patent documents or search expressions. Therefore, a user who frequently uses the search will be able to perform a more effective search if he / she has the record that he / she has searched in the past.

For example, it may happen that a user has to search again for a technique similar to the technical field in which the user performed the search operation in the past. At this time, knowing various search words or search expressions used in the past, knowing which search term has a high hit rate, or knowing how many search results are obtained when a search expression is used, You can do it.

Particularly, if the trajectory of the search operation or the read operation can be known, it is possible to know which patent document is deeply browsed among the search results by the search formula, and to what extent the patent document is browsed. In this way, if you know the workflow you have done in the past, you will be able to understand what the core patents are and how to search the whole path more effectively. As a result, it is possible to perform the repetitive browsing operation more easily if the user can know the trajectory as well as the work performed in the past.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a patent search system, in which a user terminal accesses a patent document to browse a patent document, captures a transaction of the browse operation, extracts and saves the job information, And to provide a system and method for browsing a patent document that constitutes and records the browsing operation as an associated structure.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for logging a browsing operation of a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system and records information about a patent document reading operation, Capturing an inter-view transaction and obtaining a previous browse operation; (b) extracting and storing the job information of the captured browsing job; (c) constituting an operation relationship between browsing operations by the operation sequence as an association structure.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in a reading log method of a patent document, the operation information includes identification information of a patent document and a reading form.

Further, the present invention provides a method for browsing a viewing log of a patent document, wherein the viewing form is at least one of a detailed view, a text view, a claim view, a specification view, a drawing view, a family view, and a citation document .

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for browsing a document, the method comprising the steps of: (a) identifying a node in the tree structure as an identification information node and a browse node, The nodes are characterized by their order of operation.

(C) if the reading operation is the first operation, the identification information node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing mode of the patent document to be viewed, and Creating a browse-type node, determining an identification information node as a root node, and connecting a browse-type node to a child node of the root node; (c2) If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Connecting to a child node of a browse type node; (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And a step of connecting to a child node of a lookup type node of a previous work and connecting a browse type node to a child node of the identification information node.

(C) if the reading operation is the first operation, the identification information node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing mode of the patent document to be viewed, and Creating a browse-type node, determining an identification information node as a root node, and connecting a browse-type node to a child node of the root node; (c2) If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the previous work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Connecting to a child node of the node; (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And a step of connecting to a child node of a lookup type node of a previous work and connecting a browse type node to a child node of the identification information node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for browsing a document, the method comprising the steps of: (c3) adding a link type node between a read type node and an identification information node of the immediately preceding job; And a link type is recorded in a link between the identification information node and the identification information node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for browsing a patent document, the method comprising the steps of: (c3) if an identification information node identical to the identification information of the patent document already exists in the association structure, And connects the browse mode node of the immediately preceding job to the existing identification information node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log method of a patent document, wherein when a reading style node of identification information of a patent document is already present in the association structure in the step (c2) or the step (c3) The browsing time node is added to the browsing type node or the number of visiting times is increased without creating a type node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for browsing a patent document, the method comprising the steps of: (c3) if an identification information node identical to the identification information of the patent document already exists in the association structure, And the browsing time is added to the identification information node or the number of visits is increased.

Further, the present invention is a method for logging a viewing operation of a patent document, wherein the reading operation log method further comprises: (d) transmitting the association structure to a user terminal for display.

Further, the present invention provides a method for browsing a reading operation log of a patent document, wherein in step (d), the operation information of the browsing operation is displayed in the form of an association structure composed of nodes, And shape nodes, which are different from each other.

In addition, the present invention is characterized in that, in the step (d), a color concentration or a border thickness of the node is determined in proportion to the number of times the node is visited.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that in the reading log method of a patent document, the identification information of the patent document is any one of an application number, a public number, and a registration number.

In addition, the present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for performing a reading operation log method of the patent document is recorded.

In addition, the present invention relates to a browsing log system for a patent document that records information on a work of browsing a patent document by accessing a patent search system, and more particularly, to a system and method for capturing a browsing work transaction between a user terminal and a patent search system capture job and a browsing job capturing unit for obtaining a browsing job immediately before; A work information storage unit for extracting and storing job information of the captured browsing job; And a work relation storing unit for organizing the work relation between the browse work by the work order into an association structure.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in a reading log system of a patent document, the job information includes identification information of a patent document and a reading form.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log system for a patent document, wherein when the reading operation is the first operation, the identification information node and the reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be viewed The identification information node is set as the root node, the browse type node is connected to the child node of the root node; If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated and the browse type node is referred to as the browse type node And if the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, The identification information node is connected to the child node of the browse type node of the previous job, and the browse type node is connected to the child node of the identification information node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log system for a patent document, wherein when the reading operation is the first operation, the identification information node and the reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be viewed The identification information node is set as the root node, the browse type node is connected to the child node of the root node; If the reading operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Node, and if the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, The node is connected to the child node of the browse type node of the previous job, and the browse node is connected to the child node of the identification information node.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log system for a patent document, wherein the working relationship storing unit does not generate a browse type node when a browse type node of identification information of a patent document that is viewed already exists in the association structure, The browsing time node is added to the browsing type node or the number of times of visit is increased.

In addition, the present invention is characterized in that, in the reading log system of the patent document, the reading log system further comprises a working log output unit for transmitting the association structure to the user terminal and displaying it.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log system for a patent document, wherein the job log output unit displays job information of a reading job in the form of an association structure composed of nodes, And have different shapes.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading log system for a patent document, wherein the operation log output unit determines the color density or the thickness of the border in proportion to the number of times the node is visited.

In addition, the present invention relates to a browsing log system, a patent search system for recording information on a job for browsing a patent document, and a user terminal connected to the network, ; A second step of requesting a reading operation for reading the same patent document as the patent document read in the reading operation or requesting a reading operation for reading another patent document one or more times; And requesting the browsing operation log system to extract the job information of the browsing job for all or a part of the job requests up to the second step and to receive the data constituted by the association structure .

As described above, according to the reading log system and method of a patent document according to the present invention, a user can automatically record a series of work flows for browsing a patent document, It is possible to grasp the flow of work by himself after death.

According to the reading log system and method of the patent document of the present invention, since the browsing operation is constituted by an association structure with the immediately preceding browsing operation, the trajectory of the entire operation for browsing the patent document can be seen at a glance Effect is obtained.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the description of the present invention, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

First, an example of the overall system configuration for implementing the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of an overall system for implementing the present invention.

1, the overall system includes a patent search system 21, a patent document DB 22, a user terminal 10, a network 11, and a job log system 30 .

The patent document DB 22 is a database for storing patent documents. The patent document refers to a published patent publication or a registered patent publication. Patent documents can include not only patents but also utility models. Since the utility model and the search item are almost the same, the utility model publication is also included when referring to the patent document. Meanwhile, the patent document DB includes both domestic and foreign patent publications. That is, all patent publications issued by national patent offices or WIPO are covered.

The patent search system 21 refers to a conventional patent search system. The patent search system 21 is connected to the user terminal 10 via the network 11. However, the present invention can be applied to the case where the user terminal 10 is directly connected to the patent search system 21.

The patent search system 21 performs an operation in response to a request of the user terminal 10. [ The operation performed by the patent search system 21 for one request requested by the user terminal 10 will be hereinafter referred to as a unit operation.

A unit work requesting a search with a specific search expression is called a search task, and a unit work requesting a specific patent document is called a read task.

The process from requesting by the user terminal 10 to performing the unit work by the patent search system 21 will be referred to as a unit work transaction. That is, in addition to the unit work performed by the patent search system 21, the unit work transaction includes a request made by the user terminal 10 to the patent search system 21. If the unit job is a browse job, it is called a browse job transaction. If the unit job is a browse job, it is called a browse job transaction.

The user terminal 10 is a terminal having a normal computing function used by a user. Examples of the user terminal 10 include a PC, a notebook, a netbook, a PDA, a mobile, and the like, and its construction and operation are well known in the art. The user terminal 10 displays the result of unit operation of the patent search system 21 on the screen of the output device such as a liquid crystal display screen or a monitor. The result of the unit job displayed on the screen of the user terminal 10 will be referred to as a job result page (or screen). As another embodiment, the unit work such as the original text of a patent document can be downloaded and the original text can be displayed with a separate software. This can also be seen as meaning a single page of results (or screen) in a broad sense.

Meanwhile, the job result page may include a link or a command button so that the user can request another unit job. When the user presses the link or the command button, the unit job of the next step is sent to the patent search system 21 You will be asked. A new unit work transaction is made by this request. In addition, when the unit operation is performed, a new job result page will be transmitted to the user terminal 10 and displayed. In such a case, a work order between unit jobs is determined by a link or a command button.

That is, unit work B is a work that occurs after unit work A, when unit work B is a unit work performed by a link or a command button on a work result page by unit work A.

The link or command button also includes an instruction to view a previous screen or a previous page. An example in which the user terminal 10 displays a job result page by a search request will be described. A list of patent documents will be displayed on the job result page. The user selects and reads one patent document from the job result page, and then returns to the job result page to select and browse another patent document. In such a case, all of the two tasks for browsing the patent document should be regarded as a unit operation performed after the unit operation by the previous search request.

In addition, a patent document may have other patent documents related to itself such as citations or family relationships. In this case, it is possible to browse other related patent documents while reading the patent documents. For example, patent document A can be browsed and patent document B, which is a family of patent document A, can be browsed. In this case, the reading operation (or unit operation) of the patent document A is a patent document just before the reading operation (or unit operation) of the patent document B. On the other hand, for this purpose, the patent search system 21 should provide a link for browsing the patent document B on the page reading the patent document A.

The relationship between patent documents includes relationships provided by the patent search system itself as well as by bibliographic references such as citations or family relationships.

The operation log system 30 captures a unit work transaction between the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21 and records information on the unit work. That is, the user terminal 10 requests a unit operation and captures the response of the patent search system 21 to the request.

Meanwhile, the capture includes an operation of generating log information and recording or storing the log information. Transaction capture of unit operations can be implemented in a variety of ways using conventional techniques.

For example, a web page or a request command exchanged between the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21 may be taken in the middle and analyzed to extract necessary information. In another example, information on the unit work can be extracted by adding a program module for recording (logging) a job to a user interface (receiving and processing the command) of the patent search system 21. [ Another example is that the patent search system 21 itself can record the operation log and read the operation log recorded thereon. The first method is advantageous in that it does not need to change the patent search system 21, but it is inefficient and the last method is most effective although it has a disadvantage that it needs to be changed so that the patent search system 21 can generate a required operation log. The second method has its advantages and disadvantages in comparison with the other two methods.

The capture of the present invention means to be implemented in any of the above-described ways. Both the arrows between the network 11 and the patent search system 21 in FIG. 1 and the one-way arrows displayed on the operation log system 30 in the both arrows indicate the direction of the action of capture described above.

In FIG. 1, the operation log system 30 and the patent search system 21 are logically separated, but the user log 10 can be implemented as a single service. The user can increase the efficiency of the search operation by using the two systems together. In other words, when searching for a patent, it is possible to refer to a past work record directly, or to browse past work records and directly browse or search related patent documents.

Next, a browsing operation log method of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a browsing operation log method of the patent document.

As shown in FIG. 2, a method for browsing a document for browsing a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of (a) capturing a browsing transaction between a user terminal and a patent search system, S10); (b) extracting and storing job information of the captured browsing job (S20); (c) a step (S30) of structuring the working relationship between browsing operations by the working order into an association structure. In addition, in addition, the method may further include (d) transmitting the association structure to the user terminal and displaying (S40).

First, the job log system 30 captures a browsing transaction between the user terminal 10 and the patent search system 21, and obtains a previous browsing job (S10).

 As described above, the patent search system 21 captures a unit work transaction, and the unit work is either a browse job or a search job. However, the following description is limited to the case of all the unit operations.

As described above, the browsing work transaction is a process in which the patent search system 21 transmits a work result (or a work result screen or page) to the work request of the user terminal 10. Capture in this process is a job request page of the user terminal 10 and a job result page transmitted by the patent search system 21. [

Particularly, it is possible to analyze a work request of the user terminal 10 to know the immediately previous browsing operation of the browsing operation, and obtain information on the current browsing operation by analyzing the operation result page. If, as a result of analyzing the operation request of the user terminal 10, the unit work immediately before the reading operation is not the reading operation, the reading operation is determined as the first reading operation (or the first operation).

A search task is a task of requesting a list of patent documents satisfying a search expression using a search expression. Generally, the list of patent documents shows basic information about patent documents. For example, it is basic information that can identify a patent document such as identification information of a patent document, a name of an invention, and a disclosure date. The list of the patent documents is a search result by a search operation. For reference, identification information of a patent document refers to a number that can identify a patent document such as an application number, a public number, and a registration number of the patent document.

Viewing the search result (or a list of patent documents) as described above, and selecting a desired patent document from the list and viewing the contents of the selected document is a browsing operation. At this time, the browsing operation requested in the search result is the first browsing operation.

In the reading process, the reading form showing the contents of the document can be in various forms. The types of reading supported by the patent search system 21 are various and individual. The most representative form of reading is the entire text of the patent document. The original text is of the same form as any patent search system. In addition, there may be a detailed view showing the core items of the patent document, for example, identification information of the patent document, country, document type, applicant, inventor, summary, representative drawing, IPC classification, representative claim. In addition, there may be a form in which only a part of a patent document such as a claim, a summary, and a representative drawing is displayed separately. That is, the viewing type includes a detailed view, a text view, a claim view, a specification view, a drawing view, a family view, and a citation document (or cited document) view.

However, the family view and the cited document view are different types of reading (original text, claims, drawings, etc.) and different types of documents. For example, the types of reading such as original texts, claims, and drawing views show the same patent document in different formats, while the family view and the cited document view show different patent documents.

The immediately preceding job (or the immediately preceding unit job) refers to the unit job immediately before this reading job is performed. As described above, if the unit job is performed by a link or a command button on the job result page, the unit job requesting the job result page becomes the immediately preceding unit job.

For example, on the job results page by one search job, there will be a list of patent documents in the search results. If a request for viewing the original text of one of the patent documents is requested, the unit work immediately before the reading operation becomes a search operation.

As another example, there are a plurality of links or command buttons that can be viewed in various browsing forms on a job result page by one browsing operation A. At this time, the user requests a browsing operation B by clicking one link or command button among them. Then, you will see the job results page for browse job B. Then, return to the operation result page of the browsing operation A, and then press another link type or command button. So I ask for browse job C and see another job results page as a result. In the above case, the other two browsing operations B and C are regarded as being performed after the previous browsing operation A, respectively. In the case of the above example, the identification information of the patent document does not change when one patent document is viewed in another reading form. In other words, the same patent document is regarded as another reading form.

On the other hand, a patent document may have citation information such as family information such as priority claim, split application, cited patent document, and cited patent document. As a result of the browsing operation of the patent document, there may be a link or a command button having the above-mentioned family information or citation information on the operation result page and requesting the viewing of the information. When the user presses the link or the command button, the related patent document is browsed. In such a case, the identification information of the patent document changes even if the immediately preceding operation is a reading operation. That is, another patent document is read.

In summary, the immediately preceding unit operation of the reading operation may be a search operation or a reading operation, and the patent document read in the reading operation may be the same or may be another patent document. And checking what the previous work of the unit work is can determine whether the user requested the unit work on a work result page. That is, the unit task that requested the task result page when requesting the unit task is the previous task.

In addition, since the immediately previous job is not a browsing job as a retrieval job, the first browsing job is set as the browsing job immediately performed.

Next, the job log system 30 extracts and saves the job information of the captured browsing job (S20).

The job information includes identification information of a patent document and a viewing form. In addition, the task information may further include viewing time and the like. If the two browsing operations are identical to the identification information of the patent document, the browsing operations can be regarded as the same. That is, we have seen the same type of patent document twice. The two browsing operations are distinguished from each other by browsing time. That is, patent documents of the same type can be viewed several times, but each has different viewing time.

Next, the job log system 30 configures the working relationship between browsing operations according to the job order as an association structure (S30). Since the immediately preceding work of each reading operation is obtained, an association structure is formed by the operation order of each reading operation by using this. The basic method is as follows. Each browse operation is made to each node of the association structure, and the parent node of the browse operation node becomes the node of the previous browse operation. The browse operation without the node of the immediately preceding browse operation becomes the root node or the first browse operation node.

That is, the association structure has a shape of a tree structure, and a node of the tree structure is divided into an identification information node and a browse type node, and an upper node and a lower node of the browse type node are related by a work order.

Hereinafter, a method for constructing the browsing operation as an associative structure will be described in detail in order of two embodiments.

First, a method for constructing a browsing operation as an association structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a browsing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention as an association structure, and FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an association structure of a working relationship according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, a method for constructing a browsing operation according to an embodiment of the present invention as an association structure includes: (c1) if the browsing operation is the first operation, A step S31 of creating an identification information node and a browse type node, determining an identification information node as a root node, and a browse type node as a lower node of the root node; (c2) If the reading of the patent document is the same as that of the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated, A step (S31) of setting the node as a lower node; (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, (Step S31) in which the child node of the previous work type is set as a child node and the browse type node is set as a child node of the identification information node.

There are three different ways to create an association structure for browsing. (1) the first time the reading operation is performed, (2) the preceding operation is a reading operation, and the same patent document as the patent document read in the immediately preceding operation is read, (3) the previous operation is a reading operation, A patent document and another patent document are read.

In each case, the association structure of FIG. 4 will be described as an example. In the case of (1), the previous job is not a browsing job. For example, if the immediately preceding job is a search job, the progressing browse job is an initial browse job.

(1), an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is set as a root node, and the browse type node is a child node of the root node (S31).

In association structure, nodes are divided into two kinds. One is the identification information of the patent document, and the other is the reading form. For example, if a detailed view of a patent document with an application number of "10-2007-003456" is displayed on the operation result page by the search operation, the search operation is not a browse operation and the detailed view is a read operation. It becomes the reading work.

Therefore, as shown in Fig. 4, the application number "10-2007-003456" becomes the root node and the browse form "detail" becomes the lower node of the application number node. At this time, the root node having the application number "10-2007-003456" is the " identification information node "

Next, in the case of (2), a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated, and the browse type node is connected to the child node of the browse type node of the immediately preceding job (S32).

For example, a work in which the immediately preceding work is a "detailed view" of a patent document of the application number "10-2007-003456" is read. In this case, as shown in Fig. 4, the "Claim" node, which is a browsing type of browsing operation, becomes a child node of the "detailed" node.

On the other hand, the process of reading patent documents can be reversed. For example, you can view the "Claims" view in the "Detail" view and then return to the "Detail" view again. Also, when you return to the "Detail" view and make a "Summary" view, a "Summary" is created and linked to the child nodes in the "Detail" node.

As described above, the process of browsing a patent document (or navigation) is similar to navigation of a web page. This is because the patent search system 21 performs patent search and browse service in the form of a web.

Next, in the case of (3), an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and browse type of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is set as a child node of the browse type node of the previous job, The shape node is connected to the child node of the identification information node (S30).

(3) corresponds to a case where a patent document is linked to another related patent document during reading. For example, a family of a patent document or a patent document for a citation is linked and viewed in a family view or a quotation view. It can also occur when a family patent or a citation patent is linked on a web page such as a detailed view.

As shown in FIG. 4, the last browsing operation is a family view, and a detailed view of the application number "10-2005-028856" In this case, an identification information node having the application number "10-2005-028856" and a reading form node of the detailed view of the application number are generated. The node with application number "10-2005-028856" is connected to the child node of the "family" In addition, the browsing type "detail" is connected to the lower node of the application number node.

Next, a method for constructing the browsing operation as an association structure according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 5, a method for structuring a browsing operation according to another embodiment as an associative structure comprises the steps of: (c1) if the browsing operation is the first operation, the identification information node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed; Creating a browse-type node, determining an identification information node as a root node, and connecting a browse node to a child node of the root node (S35); (c2) If the reading of the patent document is the same as that of the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the reading form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, (S36); (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, A step of connecting to a child node of a lookup type node of a previous work, and a step of connecting a browse type node to a child node of the identification information node (S37).

The second embodiment differs from the first embodiment described above only in the step (c2). Therefore, only step (c2) will be described, and the remaining steps will be described with reference to the description of the first embodiment.

The step (c2) is a step of processing when the patent document viewed by the reading operation is the same as the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding operation. That is, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated and connected to the lower node of the identification information node of the patent document to be browsed (S36).

That is, as shown in FIG. 6A, when browsing the contents of one patent document, all browsing forms are connected to the lower node directly connected to the identification information node of the patent document. In other words, for patent documents with the application number "10-2007-003456", all types of browsing operations such as claim view, original view, detailed view, and family view are all directly connected subordinates of the node of "10-2007-003456" Node.

When another patent document is browsed in the reading operation of the specific reading form, the identification information node and the reading form node are connected to the lower node of the immediately preceding work as in the first embodiment. That is, when the original text of the patent document of "10-2005-028856" having the family relation is displayed in the detail view of "10-2007-003456", the detail node of "10-2007-003456" "10-2005-028856" and connect the original node to the direct child node of the node of "10-2005-028856".

The way of viewing patent documents in family relation or citation relation can be viewed in the form of a view such as family view or citation view, but can also be linked in the view form of detailed view or summary view. As shown in FIG. 6A, when viewing the patent document "10-2005-028856" in the patent document of "10-2007-003456", the patent document of "10-2008-060856" In the family view, they are linked and viewed.

6B or 6C, a link type node is added between a read type node and an identification information node of a previous job, or a link form between a read type node of the previous job and the identification information node Can be recorded.

FIG. 6B illustrates the addition of a link type node between the browse type node and the identification information node of the immediately preceding job, and FIG. 6C illustrates an example in which the link type is recorded.

Here, the link type refers to the relationship between two patents when directly viewing another patent document in one patent document. That is, if the patent document A and the patent document B are related to each other in a family relationship, the link form between the patent document A and the patent document B is "family " The link type is "quoted".

Next, the reading operation log method of the patent document will be described from the step (d).

In the previous step, if the working relationship between browsing tasks is configured as an association structure, the configured association structure is transmitted to the user terminal 10 and displayed (S40).

At this time, the node has a different shape by being divided into an identification information node and a browse type node of a patent document. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the application number node is represented by a rectangle, and the browse node is represented by a round rectangle.

Next, an associative structure of the work relationships to be circulated according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. That is, in the step (c3), when the browse form of the identification information of the patent document that is read already exists in the association structure, the browse type node of the immediately preceding browse work is connected to the identification information node of the existing patent document.

As described above, the reading operation is distinguished by the identification information of the patent document and the reading form. However, there are cases in which the same type of patent document is read many times. As shown in FIG. 5, "Family View" was again displayed in the "Detailed View" reading operation of the application number "10-2000-056034". In the family reading work, a "summary view" of the application number "10-2005-028856" was read. At this time, the browsing operation for viewing the "summary view" of the application number "10-2005-028856" is a unit operation that has been performed previously. It already exists in the association structure. At this time, as shown by the arrow R in Fig. 7, the node is connected to the application number "10-2005-028856 ".

As another example, instead of the application number "10-2005-028856" node, it may be connected to a node of the "summary" However, what we would like to know through circulating reading is that we have repeatedly seen a patent document of a certain number of applications rather than repeatedly viewing what type of reading? Therefore, the former embodiment is more preferable than the latter embodiment.

In order to record the repeated browsing as described above, all browsing times can be recorded in the browsing mode node of the browsing operation. That is, if there are K browsing records in the browsing type node of the browsing operation, it is found that the patent document of the browsing form is browsed by repeating K times.

On the other hand, in the cases of (2) and (3) of the three cases in which the browsing work described above has a relationship with the previous work, when the browsing type node of the browsing work already exists, Add time only. In the case of (2) and (3) above, if there is an identification information node of the patent document but there is no browse type node of the reading operation, the lower node of the identification information node of the patent document Create a node.

In the case of (3), if the identification information node already exists in the association structure, it does not create a new identification information node but connects to an already existing identification information node.

That is, it is ensured that the nodes to be displayed in the association structure are not overlapped and displayed. This has the effect of simplifying the association structure and providing the user with an easy-to-view association structure.

Instead, it is desirable to display the information that is duplicated and browsed on the association structure.

When the browse type node of the identification information of the patent document is already present in the association structure, the browse type node is added to the browse type node or the number of times of the visit is increased without creating the browse type node.

When the same identification information node as the identified patent document already exists in the association structure, the browsing time is added to the identification information node or the number of visits is increased without generating the identification information node.

That is, the number of times of the visit is counted or the viewing time is recorded in the nodes repeatedly viewed. In addition, the color density or border thickness of the node is determined in proportion to the number of visits of the node, and displayed on the association structure. By doing so, the user can understand at a glance which type of reading or patent document is frequently repeated.

Next, screens for outputting job information of a unit job according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 to 11. FIG.

8 is a diagram illustrating an output screen for job information of a search job according to the present invention. That is, it shows a list of search expressions used in the search operation. As the job information of the search job, the number of search results, the search time, and the like are displayed together.

9 is a diagram illustrating an output screen for job information of a browsing job according to the present invention. It shows the reading work as a list. Each reading operation is classified based on the identification information of the patent document, and the form in which each patent document is read is shown below. Therefore, it is possible to see at a glance what kind of viewing form a patent document has seen. In addition, basic information about each patent document, that is, the name of the invention, the issue date, and the like are shown together.

10 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting job information of a unit job according to the present invention on the basis of a job time. Provides a screen that allows you to see each unit work at a glance based on the calendar.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting a work relationship of a unit job according to the present invention as an association structure. In other words, FIG. 11 shows the above-described FIG. 4 or FIG. 5 as an actual screen. As shown in FIG. 11, the identification information node of the patent document is represented by a square box, and the browse type node is represented by a circle.

Next, a reading log system of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a configuration of a browsing log system of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

12, the browsing log system of the patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a browsing job capture unit 31, a job information storage unit 32, and a work relationship storage unit 33 . And may further include an operation log output unit 34. [ And a database 40 for storing and managing information on work information and work relations.

The browsing job capture unit 31 captures a browsing transaction between the user terminal and the patent search system and obtains a previous browsing job. In particular, the job information includes identification information of a patent document and a viewing form.

The job information storage unit 32 extracts and saves the job information of the captured browsing job.

The work relation storage unit (33) constitutes a work relationship between browsing operations according to the work order as an association structure.

The first embodiment in which the work relation storage unit 33 stores the association structure is as follows.

(1) If the reading operation is the first operation, an identification information node and a browsing type node corresponding to the identification information and browsing type of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is set as the root node. Connect to child nodes.

(2) If the patent document viewed in the reading operation is the same as the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated, and the browse type node is displayed as a sub- Connect to the node.

(3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, The work type of the work is connected to the lower node of the node, and the browse type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node.

The second embodiment in which the work relation storage unit 33 stores the association structure is as follows.

(1) If the reading operation is the first operation, an identification information node and a browsing type node corresponding to the identification information and browsing type of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is set as the root node. Connect to child nodes.

(2) If the patent document read by the reading operation is the same as the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Connect.

(3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, The work type of the work is connected to the lower node of the node, and the browse type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node.

In particular, when the browse type node of the identification information of the patent document that is viewed already exists in the association structure, the working relationship storage unit 33 adds the browse time to the browse type node without generating the browse type node Increase the number of visits.

In addition, the operation log output unit 34 displays the operation information of the browsing operation in the form of an association structure composed of nodes, and the node is divided into identification information nodes and browse type nodes of the patent document to have different shapes .

In addition, the job log output unit 34 determines the color density of the node or the thickness of the border in proportion to the number of times the node is visited.

In the description omitted in the description of the reading log system of the patent document, the description of the reading log method of the patent document described above is referred to.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

The present invention is applicable to the field of searching patent documents such as patent publications. In particular, the present invention can be applied to the development of a patent search system that automatically searches for a user searching for a patent document, thereby enabling a user to perform search more efficiently by referring to past searches .

1 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of an overall system for implementing the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a viewing operation log method of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a browsing operation as an association structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an association structure of a work relationship according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of configuring a browsing operation as an association structure according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an association structure of a work relationship according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an association structure of work relationships to be circulated according to the present invention.

8 is a diagram illustrating an output screen for job information of a search job according to the present invention.

9 is a diagram illustrating an output screen for job information of a browsing job according to the present invention.

10 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting job information of a browsing job according to the present invention on the basis of a job time.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting a work relationship of browsing work according to the present invention as an association structure.

12 is a block diagram of a configuration of a browsing log system of a patent document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the Related Art [0002]

10: user terminal 11: network

21: Patent search system 22: Patent information DB

30: job log system 31: capture job capture unit

32: Operation information storage unit 33: Operation relation storage unit

34: Operation log output unit 40: Operation log DB

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Claims (24)

delete There is provided a method for browsing a viewing operation of a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system and records information on a work for browsing a patent document, (a) capturing a viewing transaction between a user terminal and a patent search system, and obtaining a previous job; (b) extracting and storing the job information of the captured browsing job; (c) constructing a working relationship between browsing operations by a work order as an association structure, Wherein the job information includes identification information of a patent document and a viewing form. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein the viewing form is at least one of a detailed view, an original text view, a claim view, a specification view, a drawing view, a family view, and a cited document (or a cited document) view. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein the association structure has a shape of a tree structure, a node of the tree structure is divided into an identification information node and a browse type node, and an upper node and a lower node of the browse type node are related by a work order. How to log the view. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein step (c) (c1) If the browsing operation is the initial operation, an identification information node and a browsing type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing type of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is determined as the root node. To a child node of the node; (c2) If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Connecting to a child node of a browse type node; (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And connecting the browsing type node to a lower node of the identification information node, and connecting the browsing type node to a lower node of the identification information node. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein step (c) (c1) If the browsing operation is the initial operation, an identification information node and a browsing type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing type of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is determined as the root node. To a child node of the node; (c2) If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the previous work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Connecting to a child node of the node; (c3) If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And connecting the browsing type node to a lower node of the identification information node, and connecting the browsing type node to a lower node of the identification information node. The method according to claim 6, In the step (c3), a link type node is added between the reading type node of the previous job and the identification information node, or the link type is recorded in the link between the reading type node of the immediately preceding job and the identification information node A method for viewing log of patent documents. The method according to claim 5 or 6, In the step (c3), if an identification information node identical to the identification information of the patent document already exists in the association structure, the identification information node is not generated, Wherein the document log is linked to the document log. 9. The method of claim 8, If the browse type node of the identification information of the patent document is already present in the association structure in the step (c2) or (c3), the browse type node is not created and the browse time is set to the browse type node And the number of visits is increased. 10. The method of claim 9, In the step (c3), when the same identification information node as the identified patent document already exists in the association structure, the browsing time is added to the identification information node without generating the identification information node, And the number of patent documents is increased. 11. The method of claim 10, Wherein the browsing operation log method further comprises: (d) transmitting the association structure to the user terminal and displaying the linked structure. 12. The method of claim 11, In the step (d), the task information of the browsing job is displayed in the form of an association structure composed of nodes, wherein the node has a different shape by being divided into an identification information node and a browse type node of a patent document How to log the document's view operation. 13. The method of claim 12, Wherein the color density of the node or the thickness of the border is determined in proportion to the number of visits of the node in the step (d). 7. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 6, Wherein the identification information of the patent document is any one of an application number, a public number, and a registration number. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing a viewing log method of a patent document of any one of claims 2 to 6. delete A reading log system for a patent document in which a user terminal accesses a patent search system and records information on a work for browsing a patent document, A capturing job capturing unit for capturing a browsing transaction between the user terminal and the patent retrieval system and obtaining a previous browsing job; A work information storage unit for extracting and storing job information of the captured browsing job; And a work relation storing unit for organizing the work relation between the browse work by the work order into an association structure, Wherein the job information includes identification information of a patent document and a viewing form. 18. The apparatus according to claim 17, If the browsing operation is the initial operation, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is determined as the root node. Lt; / RTI > If the browsing operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document viewed in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse type of the patent document to be browsed is generated and the browse type node is referred to as the browse type node To the lower node of the < RTI ID = 0.0 & If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And the browsing type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node, and the browsing type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node. 18. The apparatus according to claim 17, If the browsing operation is the initial operation, an identification information node and a browse type node corresponding to the identification information and the browsing form of the patent document to be browsed are generated. The identification information node is determined as the root node. Lt; / RTI > If the reading operation is not the initial operation and the patent document read is the same as the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, a browse type node corresponding to the browse form of the patent document to be browsed is generated, Node, If the patent document read by the reading operation is different from the patent document read in the immediately preceding work, an identification information node and a reading form node corresponding to the identification information and the reading form of the patent document to be browsed are generated, And the browsing type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node, and the browsing type node is connected to the lower node of the identification information node. 20. The method according to claim 18 or 19, The operation relation storage unit may not add the browse type node and increase the browse time or increase the number of times of access to the browse type node when the browse type node of the identification information of the patent document already exists in the association structure Features of the patent document reading log system. 21. The method of claim 20, Wherein the browsing operation log system further comprises an operation log output unit for transmitting the association structure to the user terminal and displaying the connection structure. 22. The method of claim 21, Wherein the job log output unit displays job information of a browsing job in the form of an association structure composed of nodes, wherein the node has a different shape by being divided into an identification information node and a browse type node of a patent document View activity log system. 23. The method of claim 22, Wherein the operation log output unit determines a color density or a border thickness of the node in proportion to the number of times the node is visited. delete

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