KR20070079771A - System and method for service of preceding skill - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and a method for providing prior art information are provided to remove necessity of requesting prior art search in each patent application and enable a user to easily obtain the prior art information by periodically providing the prior art information corresponding to a field. A client database(103) stores client information including client PC ID information. A keyword database(104) stores keywords generated from each user. A search result database(105) stores a result which is obtained by using the keyword generated from a prior art search server. A prior art search result generator(106) generates a result by searching the prior art information and including the client information to the search result. A controller(102) generates the keyword by each client and controls each component for generating/transmitting the search result to the client PC. An interface(101) is connected to the search server to perform the prior art search through the Internet, receives a request for searching the prior art from the client PC, and provides the result to the client PC.

Description

System and method for service of preceding skill}

1 is a block diagram illustrating a general prior art providing system;

2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a prior art providing system according to the present invention;

3 is a detailed block diagram of the prior art providing server of FIG. 2 according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 4 is a flow chart for explaining the prior art providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

100: prior art providing server 200: Internet

300: client 400: prior art search server

101: interface unit 102: control unit

103: Client DB 104: Keyword DB

105: search result DB 106: prior art result generation unit

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing the prior art of intellectual property.

In general, intellectual property rights are mainly patented, and the prior art search is an essential process prior to patent application for wasteful design and avoidance of unnecessary costs of general enterprises.

In most cases, the prior art has been directly searched by the patent manager of the enterprise or by a patent agent or a prior art search agency, and only the prior art at the time of prior art search was searched.

Hereinafter, a general prior art providing system will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a general prior art providing system.

Referring to FIG. 1, as shown, the website 10 accesses a relay authentication server 20 to be described later, and directly registers a service model and prior art and related data which are performed through the Internet on a website, or a website URL address. Enter (1). Registered information and data or URL address is stored in the relay authentication server 20, based on the data extracted by accessing the stored data or URL address, the relay authentication server 20 is the service model of the website 10 and the preceding Based on the point in time at which the technology is known, an authentication document for the service model and the prior art is generated and provided (2).

       The service model, prior art, related materials, authentication documents, etc. of the website 10 are stored in the relay authentication server 20 to be described later, and the preceding model and the preceding for the service performed by the client / server 30 on the Internet. When the request for the technology (3), the relay authentication server 20 provides the client / server 30 with the authentication document for the prior art service company and the prior art for the request (4).

       The above-mentioned website 10 refers to a server or a site of a company that provides a web service to a plurality of users using various service models and technologies through a communication network such as the Internet.

       The client / server 30 described above is a server or individual user of a company such as the website described above.

In the case of requesting such prior art search, it was not efficient because a separate cost was paid, and even when searching for the prior art, only a search that is limited to the technology of the current patent application is made.

In addition, in the case of using the prior art search site has been inconvenient because it has to perform the search and the cumbersome due to the procedure such as membership registration.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to periodically provide the prior art by joining the member to solve the above-mentioned problems do not have to search a separate prior art every time the patent application, and the prior art in the field is easily provided in advance prior art It is to provide a prior art providing system and method for acquiring the same.

The prior art providing system according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a system for providing a prior art connected to the client PC and the prior art search server and the communication network, such as the Internet, including identification information for the client PC A client DB for storing client information; A keyword DB for storing a search target keyword generated for each client; A search result DB for storing a search result using a keyword generated in the prior art search server; Prior art result generation unit for generating the prior art results, including the stored information of the prior art, including the identification information of the client; And a controller that controls each configuration to generate keywords for each client, search the prior art to be searched, and transmit the same to the client PC.

In addition, according to the present invention, the system is characterized in that it comprises an interface for connecting to the prior art search server to perform the prior art search over the Internet and to request and provide the prior art to the client PC.

In addition, according to the present invention, the identification information is characterized in that the IP address of the client PC.

The prior art search method of the present invention is a method for providing a prior art by connecting to a client PC and a prior art search server and a communication network such as the Internet, and when the prior art provision request signal is received from the client PC, corresponds to the client PC. Determining whether a keyword exists; If a keyword exists, performing a prior art search with the keyword; Generating a search result of the prior art with the identification information of the client when the search of the prior art corresponding to the search target keyword is completed; And transmitting the generated prior art search result to the corresponding client PC.

In addition, according to the present invention, if the keyword does not exist, the step of performing the membership registration procedure for providing the prior art; Storing client information including client identification information by a registration procedure; And generating a keyword to be a prior art search target according to the client information.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying Figures 2 to 4 will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a prior art providing system according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a prior art providing server 100 for searching and providing a prior art and a prior art searching server for searching the prior art by accessing the prior art providing server 100 through a communication network such as the Internet ( 400 and the client PC 300 to be provided with the prior art. The Internet 200 is used as a communication network for interconnecting the server and the client PC.

Here, the prior art search server 400 refers to a prior art free search server such as the Korea Patent Information Service under the patent settlement. In other words, it is a server that performs a free service to be searchable by the prior art public publication of the prior art patent application. In addition to this, the patent offices of each country (US Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, etc.), the Euro search server such as Delthion Whipps, etc. are also included.

The client PC 300 may be a PC of an intellectual property management team of an enterprise or a personal PC that is to be regularly provided with the prior art. The client PC 300 is a PC for receiving the prior art necessary for the enterprise by performing a request for regularly providing the prior art. The client PC 300 accesses the prior art providing server 100 through the Internet, performs a request for receiving the prior art, and performs a membership. Then, prior art providing server 100 stores the information of the client in its DB, and generates and sends a keyword for searching the prior art of the client. That is, the client PC 300 receives the keyword from the prior art providing server 100 and approves the keyword so that the desired prior art can be searched. Then, the generation of the keyword is completed, the prior art providing server 100 stores the keyword approved from the client PC (100) in the DB. Then, the prior art search server 400 is searched using a keyword corresponding to the corresponding client to perform a prior art search. As a result of the search, when the prior art corresponding to the keyword to be searched is searched, it is stored and the prior art result is generated and transmitted to the corresponding client PC 300.

The retrieval or transmission of such prior art results may be performed periodically or at the request of the client PC 300.

The prior art providing server 100 will be described in more detail with reference to the detailed block diagram of FIG. 3.

Figure 3 is a detailed block diagram of the prior art providing server of Figure 2 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the prior art providing server 100 is connected to the prior art search server 400 to perform a prior art search through the Internet, and an interface unit for requesting and providing the prior art to the client PC 300. 101, the controller 102 for controlling each configuration to retrieve the searched prior art to be transmitted to the client PC 300, and storing client information including identification information for the registered client PC 300. Client DB 103 for storing, a keyword DB 104 for storing the search target keyword generated for each client, and a search result DB for storing the search result using the keyword generated in the prior art search server 40 ( 105) and a prior art result generation section 106 for generating the prior art results including the searched prior art results, including identification information of the corresponding client.

In FIG. 3, when the control unit 102 of the prior art providing server 100 receives a request for providing the prior art from the client PC 300, the client DB 103 performs client registration procedure and performs client registration including client identification information. Save. The client DB 103 stores client information including identification information of the client, where the identification information of the client may be an IP address of the client PC 300 or the like. In addition, the client information may include patent information on the existing application, and keywords may be generated using the patent information. In other words, if the common index word is a mobile phone or a wireless communication, the keyword is generated using the client information as the client information. The control unit 102 reads the client information (including patent information) from the client DB 103 for generating a keyword of a search target which the client wants to search together with the client identification information. The controller 102 generates a keyword of a search target from the client information and transmits the keyword to the client PC 300. If the received keyword matches the keyword to be searched, the client PC 300 performs approval of the keyword and informs the prior art providing server 100 of the result. Then, the control unit 102 of the prior art providing server 100 stores the generated keyword in the keyword DB (104). The controller 102 searches the prior art by searching the prior art search server 400 using the search target keyword stored in the keyword DB 104. This may be a point in time when the client PC 300 separately requests, and may search the prior art search server 400 in a predetermined specific cycle unit. In addition, the search of the prior art search server 400 is performed by the operator of the prior art providing server 100, the control unit 102 is automatically read in the state that the operator key input (not shown) or stored in a file Search for skills. That is, the controller 102 stores the searched prior art using the search target keyword from the prior art providing server 400 in the search result DB 105. When the search of the prior art is completed, the prior art result generation unit 106 reads the search result DB 105 and generates a prior art result including the corresponding prior art result and the identification information of the client. When generation of the prior art result is completed, the control unit 102 transmits to the corresponding client PC 300 through the interface unit 101. The transmission of the prior art result may also be performed at the request of the client PC 300 or at a predetermined cycle. In this way, the client PC 300 may be periodically provided with the prior art search results on the desired date with the desired keyword for the desired prior art to search.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a prior art providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the client PC 300 accesses the prior art providing server 100 in order to receive the prior art and requests the same. The controller 102 determines whether there is a prior art provision request from the client PC 300 (S1). As a result of the determination, when the prior art provision request signal is received, the controller 102 determines whether a keyword corresponding to the client PC 300 requesting the prior art provision exists in the keyword DB 104 (S2). As a result of determination, since there is no client information in the client DB 103, the registration procedure for providing the prior art is performed (S3). By the registration procedure, the control unit 102 stores the client information including the client identification information in the client DB 103. Then, according to the keyword generation process described with reference to FIG. 3, the corresponding keyword of the client who has provided the prior art request is generated and stored in the keyword DB 104 (S4). When keyword generation is completed in this way, the process returns to step S2 to perform a prior art search with the corresponding keyword. When the search of the prior art corresponding to the keyword to be searched is completed, the controller 102 stores the result in the search result DB 105 and completes the prior art search (S5). When the storage of the prior art search results is completed, the control unit 105 generates the searched prior art results together with the identification information of the client (S6). When generation of the prior art result is completed, the prior art result is transmitted to the corresponding client PC 300 (S7).

Therefore, the present invention can be provided with the prior art search results for the desired keyword, so there is no need to search the prior art separately every time the patent is filed, and since the prior art is provided periodically, the effect of continuously monitoring the prior art in the relevant field to provide.

Claims (5)

In a system for providing a prior art by connecting to a client PC and a prior art search server and a communication network, such as the Internet, A client DB for storing client information including identification information of the client PC; A keyword DB for storing a search target keyword generated for each client; A search result DB for storing a search result using the keyword generated in the prior art search server; Prior art result generation unit for generating the prior art results, including the stored information of the prior art including the identification information of the client; And And a control unit for generating each keyword for each client and searching each prior art to be searched and transmitted to the client PC. The method of claim 1, The system Prior art providing system, characterized in that it comprises an interface for connecting to the prior art search server to perform the prior art search through the Internet and to request and provide the prior art to the client PC. The method of claim 2, The identification information Prior art providing system, characterized in that the IP address of the client PC. In a method for providing a prior art by connecting to a client PC and a prior art search server and a communication network, such as the Internet, Determining whether a keyword corresponding to the client PC exists when the prior art provision request signal is received from the client PC; If a keyword exists, performing a prior art search with the keyword; Generating a prior art search result along with the identification information of the client when the search of the prior art corresponding to the search target keyword is completed; And transmitting the generated prior art search result to a corresponding client PC. The method of claim 4, wherein If the keyword is not found, performing the membership registration procedure for providing the prior art; Storing client information including client identification information by the membership registration procedure; And A prior art providing method comprising the step of generating a keyword to be a prior art search target according to the client information.

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