Apparatus and method for automated and assisted patent claim mapping and expense planning

A system for identifying scope-concept phrases comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
• extract claim text from a textual representation of a patent;
• identify, as a set of claims, text of each claim from the claim text;
• identify a set of scope concept phrases from the set of claims, wherein identifying the set of scope concept phrases includes:
• process word-by-word through a first claim from the set of claims to identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a first word, as a first one-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a second word, as a second one-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, and repeating identification for each of a plurality of other words in the first claim;
• process word-by-word through the first claim to identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a first two-word sequence of words including the first word and the second word, as a first two-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a second two-word sequence of words including the second word and a third word, as a second two-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, and repeating identification for each of a plurality of other two-word sequences of words in the first claim;
• process word-by-word through the first claim for three-word sequences of words to identify three-word scope-concept phrases;
• and
• repeat above processes, starting with a second claim from the set of claims, for one-word, two-word, and three-word scope-concept phrases;
• access an online thesaurus;
• identify synonymous words from the online thesaurus for the words of each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases;
• generate additional scope concept phrases using the identified synonymous words;
• add the additional scope concept phrases to the set of scope concept phrases;
• automatically classify a first subset of the text of the set of claims as trivial text and classify a second remaining subset of the text that as non-trivial text;
• evaluate how much of the non-trivial text has been covered by each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases;
• and
• display a graphical representation of how much of the non-trivial text has been covered by each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases.

At least one computer readable medium including instructions for identifying scope-concept phrases that when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

• extract claim text from a textual representation of a patent;
• identify, as a set of claims, text of each claim from the claim text;
• identify a set of scope-concept phrases the set of claims, wherein identifying the set of scope-concept phrases includes:
• process word-by-word through a first claim from the set of claims to identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a first word, as a first one-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a second word, as a second one-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, and repeating identification for each of a plurality of other words in the first claim;
• process word-by-word through the first claim to identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a first two-word sequence of words including the first word and the second word, as a first two-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, identify a plurality of claims from the set of claims having a second two-word sequence of words including the second word and a third word, as a second two-word scope-concept phrase, from the first claim, and repeating identification for each of a plurality of other two-word sequences of words in the first claim;
• process word-by-word through the first claim for three-word sequences of words to identify three-word scope-concept phrases;
• and
• repeat above processes, starting with a second claim from the set of claims, for one-word, two-word, and three-word scope-concept phrases;
• access an online thesaurus;
• identify synonymous words from the online thesaurus for the words of each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases;
• generate additional scope concept phrases using the identified synonymous words;
• add the additional scope concept phrases to the set of scope concept phrases;
• automatically classify a first subset of the text of the set of claims as trivial text and classify a second remaining subset of the text that as non-trivial text;
• evaluate how much of the non-trivial text has been covered by each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases;
• and
• display a graphical representation of how much of the non-trivial text has been covered by each scope concept phrase of the set of scope concept phrases.