KR20200024985A - Patent analysing system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a patent analysis system. Through the system, the time required for intellectual property (IP) analysis may be significantly reduced compared to the case where professional personnel performs the same task. The present invention is a program used in patent analysis such as a patent trend search or the like and may be a web-based program or system. The present invention can have functions of data uploading, data filtering, data editing, graph visualization, and table visualization for patent analysis.

Description

Patent Analysis System {PATENT ANALYSING SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a patent analysis system.

IP analysis, such as patent trend research and IP R & D, which quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes published patents, identifies technology trends, and sets the direction for research and development, is a task that must be performed by companies and research institutes. Several institutions, including the Strategic Development Institute, are operating projects to support this.

These IP analysis tasks basically include arranging hundreds to thousands of data, visualizing the data as below through various tables and graphs, and in the field using Microsoft Excel program. has exist. This task is very time consuming, although most of the work is done by skilled personnel with advanced Excel processing capabilities.

In addition, organizations with no professional staff have a hard time doing business because of the burden of Excel work, despite the ability to perform IP analysis tasks.

Furthermore, organizations such as the Korea Patent Strategy Development Institute conduct hundreds of IP analysis projects per year, and the quality management is practically impossible since the performing agencies conduct each project differently. Itself is omitted.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1352514

The present invention is to provide a system that can significantly reduce the time required for the IP analysis task.

In addition, even if you do not have a professional manpower to provide a system that can smoothly perform IP analysis tasks.

It also aims to provide a system that can produce consistently high quality IP analysis results.

The present invention includes a web based patent analysis system.

With this system, the time required for IP analysis can be greatly reduced compared to the case where the professional staff performs the same tasks.

In addition, even those with no experience in data processing or visualization using Excel or other programs can produce the high quality results required by the IP analytics market.

In addition, the best formalized result can be provided that is suitable for the level of the subjective authority or the ordering authority regardless of the performance skill of the performing agent.

1 is an example of configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is an example of a screen configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The network environment of FIG. 1 illustrates an example including a user terminal 110, a server 100, and a network 120. 1 is an example for describing the invention, and the number of user terminals or the number of servers is not limited as shown in FIG. 1.

The user terminal 110 may be a fixed terminal implemented as a computer device or a mobile terminal. Examples of the user terminal 110 include a smart phone, a mobile phone, a navigation, a computer, a notebook computer, a digital broadcasting terminal, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a tablet PC, and the like. For example, the user terminal 110 may communicate with other user terminals and / or the server 100 through the network 120 using a wireless or wired communication scheme.

The communication method is not limited and may include not only a communication method using a communication network (eg, a mobile communication network, a wired internet, a wireless internet, a broadcasting network) that the network 120 may include, but also a short range wireless communication between devices. For example, the network 120 may include a personal area network (PAN), a local area network (LAN), a campus area network (CAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), and a broadband network (BBN). And one or more of networks such as the Internet. The network 120 may also include any one or more of network topologies including bus networks, star networks, ring networks, mesh networks, star-bus networks, trees, or hierarchical networks, but It is not limited.

The server 100 may be implemented as a computer device or a plurality of computer devices that communicate with the user terminal 110 through a network 120 to provide commands, codes, files, contents, services, and the like.

For example, the server 100 may provide a file for installing an application to the user terminal 110 connected through the network 120. In this case, the user terminal 110 may install an application using a file provided from the server 100. In addition, a service provided by the server 100 by accessing the server 100 under the control of an operating system (OS) included in the user terminal 110 or at least one program (for example, a browser or the installed application) or Content can be provided. For example, when the user terminal 110 transmits a service request message to the server 100 through the network 120 under the control of the application, the server 100 transmits a code corresponding to the service request message to the user terminal 110. ), And the user terminal 110 may provide content to the user by configuring and displaying a screen according to a code under the control of an application. As another example, the server 100 may establish a communication session for a messaging service and route message transmission and reception between a plurality of terminals through the established communication session.

The present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 8.

The present invention is a program used in patent analysis such as patent trend research, and may be a program or system implemented on a web basis.

The present invention may have data upload, data filtering, data editing, graph visualization, and table visualization functions for patent analysis.

The data upload may be provided so that a file (for example, MS Excel) downloaded from various paid DB sites can be uploaded as it is. In addition, the user can upload the field name directly required by the user. The field name corresponding to the download format of the paid DB site may be stored in the memory. When the user selects the paid DB type, the required field name may be automatically set. If the field name specified in the upload is missing or there is a problem, an error message can be shown to the user.

Data filtering may be performed for each technical classification uploaded or set by a user. The user may assign a shortcut key or perform filtering using a predetermined shortcut key. At this time, the technical classification for each event and the movement between the events may be performed only by the keyboard so that the mouse is not used. Events that the user has not selected for technical classification using shortcuts can be automatically noise processed. If a user designates a technical classification for a patent, the family patent of the patent can also be classified. The data filtering screen displays a list of events, which can display the classified events to distinguish them from other events. In addition, the noise-treated event can be displayed to be distinguished from other events. The data filtering screen may provide a function of collectively excluding an event satisfying a predetermined condition specified by a user. The data filtering screen may display the number of events corresponding to the technical classification. The data filtering screen may display information of one or more of an applicant, an application number, a publication number, a registration number, a name, a summary, a claim, a representative claim, and a drawing so that a user may grasp information of an event. In addition, a link for viewing a detailed search screen of an external DB may be displayed. Here, the drawings are not uploaded to the present system, and those provided by an external DB may be referred to on a web page.

Data editing may include a filing date correction function. In some data, the application date may be omitted. Since the patent trend study does not require monthly or daily analysis, the application date may be processed based on the appearance year information included in the application number. For example, if the application number of the case in which the application date is missing includes an identifier indicating that the application was filed in 2018, the application date may be set to any date in 2018, for example, January 1, 2018. Such a function can be performed simultaneously for the entire case of a blank application date by the user's selection.

Data editing may include Applicant's correction function. Applicants may be missing from some data, but some items of patent trend research require applicant information. In this case, the inventor of the case may be replaced by the applicant or the applicant of the family case may be replaced by the applicant of the case. Here, the applicant of the family case may apply first. In the case of an event without the inventor information, it may be set to the applicant's name consisting of any letter combination that will not overlap with the applicant of another case.

Data editing can include the applicant nationality correction function. Applicant nationality may be missing from some data, but the applicant nationality information is necessary for some items of the patent trend research. In this case, the nationality of the inventor of the case may be used as the applicant nationality, or the applicant nationality of the family case may be replaced with the applicant nationality of the case. Here, the nationality of the applicant of the family case may be applied first. In cases where there is no inventor nationality, the country in which the case is filed may be applied as the applicant's nationality.

Data editing can include Applicant Cleanup functionality. In some items of the patent trend survey, there is an item that needs to be counted, such as the ranking of the number of applications by applicants. However, due to incompleteness of the patent DB, the applicant name may be described differently even though the applicant is the same applicant. For example, there are cases in which Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is listed under the name of the applicant and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is listed under the name of the applicant. In addition, the US application of Samsung Electronics may be described in the name of the applicant "Samsung electronics". All of these applications should be counted as Samsung Electronics' application, the system provides a function to organize the applicant.

Specifically, the applicant may be shown to the user in the order of the application. The idea of the invention is not limited to showing the number order. If the user selects one applicant name, the names determined to be similar to the applicant name can be displayed together with the selected applicant name. The similarity determination may be determined based on the number of matches of words. In this case, similar judgment may be made in a state in which formal expressions such as Co., Ltd., Inc., Ltd, Kabushi Kaisha, Industry-Academic Cooperation Group, etc. are omitted. In addition, the similarity determination may be made after converting to Korean or to English or Japanese. That is, the similar determination may be performed after unifying the letters used in the applicant's name. Here, the method of unifying the letters used in the applicant name may use the applicant name matching table stored in the DB of the system, or may use a machine translation api. For example, if you want to find the English name of Samsung Electronics, look up the English corresponding to Samsung using machine translation api (for example, google's machine translation api) provided from the outside, and judge similarity based on this You can proceed.

The user may select an applicant name to be processed as one applicant on the applicant summary screen, and the system may store them as one representative applicant name. If the user selects Save after arranging applicants, the applicant list is refreshed. In the applicant summary screen, the applicant list can be displayed differently from other applicants.

In the list of applicants to be summarized, not only the applicant name with high similarity but also the applicant name with low similarity or no similar letters may be displayed. At this time, the similarity may be shown in the order of high applicant. Since there may be a case in which similar applicants cannot be grasped even by the similar judgment as described above, the user may select a desired applicant name from the applicant list to be arranged as a target of the organization.

The applicant summary screen may display a list of applicants not arranged on one side, and the list of applicants to be organized by the representative applicant name on the other side. The UI configuration may be in a form in which the applicant name is passed from the unlisted applicant list to the applicant list to be organized, thereby allowing the user to intuitively use the applicant grooming function.

The user may directly input the name of the representative applicant or select one of the applicant names previously input.

Editing data may include adding family event information. Since the language of each country is different, according to the keyword combination, despite the case of dealing with the same technology grouped in a family, one country may be included in the retrieved data, but the other country may not be included in the retrieved data. In this case, the data to perform the analysis contains a fundamental error regarding the number of events, which can only question the accuracy of the analysis results.

Thus, in the present embodiment, when any one event (A) is included in the basic data (data before filtering or technical classification) or in the data after filtering or technical classification, the family event of the event to be analyzed If it is included in a country's data, and if it is not included, new data corresponding to that country can be added. At this time, since it is not possible to determine the exact applicant and application date of the new data, the information of any one case (A) may be used.

The visualization screen can provide data such as graphs and tables based on the organized data. The user can select one of several visualization options provided to obtain graph or table output. Graphs or tables can be provided for download. The graph or table may be displayed using one axis or one row / column value of the information of the filing date, applicant name, applicant nationality, and filing applicants.

In addition, the present invention may include a function for obtaining visualization information by selecting the data desired by the user. At this time, the user can select a variable to be included in the X-axis and Y-axis, and if any one of these variables is the number of events, it is expressed as one of a line or a bar graph or a pie graph. And Y-axis values, and the number of events that satisfy each variable condition can be expressed as a graph that can be displayed at the corresponding coordinates.

In addition, the present invention may include a function of recommending important patents according to a year group by detailed technology or applicant. Here, the important patent may be selected based on any one or more of the number of family events, the number of citations, the number of citations. If more than one criterion is used, a larger event can be selected as an important event. Alternatively, one or more pieces of information, such as family event counts, citation counts, and citation counts, may be provided to the user so that the user can select an important event.

In addition, the present invention may have a function for displaying an Object-Solution Matrix (OS matrix). To this end, a screen for setting an object and a solution of each event may be provided.

In addition, the present invention may provide a function of selecting a core patent. This may be provided similarly to the above-described filtering screen, and may be provided so that a user can quickly and conveniently select a technology level after setting the technology level. In this case, the screen for selecting the core patent may provide a separate link for use by a third party who does not use the system. By setting an access code for a separate link, the user can allow only authorized users to access the link to perform core patent screening.

100: server
110: user terminal
120: network

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Patent Analysis System.

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