Systems and methods for modifying drawings

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer implementable instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations for modifying drawings based on changes to claims of prospective patent applications, the operations comprising:

• accessing a textual content of at least part of a prospective claim of a prospective patent application, the prospective claim is a dependent claim, the dependent claim refers to and further limits a particular claim of the prospective patent application;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content, the modification includes an addition of a limitation to the prospective claim;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application, a particular element of the drawing is associated with the limitation;
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• analyzing the visual content of the drawing to determine a suggested modification to the drawing, the suggested modification includes modifying the drawing to indicate that the particular element of the drawing is optional.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer implementable instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations for modifying drawings based on changes to description sections of prospective patent applications, the operations comprising:

• accessing a textual content of at least part of a description section for a prospective patent application, the description section describes a plurality of constraints associated with a particular element;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content, the modification to the textual content includes an addition of a description of an additional constraint associated with the particular element to the description section, the additional constraint is not included in the plurality of constraints;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application, the drawing includes an illustration of the particular element that is inconsistent with the additional constraint;
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• analyzing the visual content of the drawing to determine a suggested modification, to the drawing, the suggested modification to the drawing includes modifying the illustration of the particular element to be consistent with the additional constraint.

A non-transitory computer readable medium;

• storing computer implementable instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations for modifying drawings based on changes to description sections of prospective patent applications, the operations comprising:
• accessing a textual content of at least part of a description section for a prospective patent application, the description section describes a plurality of constraints;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content, the modification to the textual content includes a removal of a particular constraint from the description section, the particular constraint is associated with a first component and a second component, the first component is not associated with any other constraint of the plurality of constraints, the second component is further associated with another constraint of the plurality of constraints;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application, the drawing includes an illustration of the first component and an illustration of the second component;
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• analyzing the visual content of the drawing to determine a suggested modification to the drawing, the suggested modification to the drawing includes removing the illustration of the first component from the drawing while preserving the illustration of the second component in the drawing.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer implementable instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform operations for modifying drawings based on changes to prospective patent applications, the operations comprising:

• accessing a textual content of a prospective patent application, the textual content includes at least part of a prospective claim of the prospective patent application and at least part of a description section for the prospective patent application;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content of the prospective patent application, wherein the modification to the textual content includes a modification to the at least part of the prospective claim and a modification to the at least part of the description section, the modification to the at least part of the prospective claim includes an addition of a limitation to the prospective claim, the limitation is associated with a component, the component is not illustrated in the drawing, the modification to the at least part of the description section specifies a characteristic of the component not specified in the modified prospective claim;
• analyzing the visual content of the drawing to determine a suggested modification to the drawing based on the modification to the at least part of the prospective claim and on the modification to the at least part of the description section, the suggested modification to the drawing includes adding an illustration of the component with the specified characteristic to the drawing.

A system for modifying drawings based on changes to prospective patent applications, the system comprising:

• at least one processing unit configured to perform operations, the operations comprise:
• accessing a textual content of a prospective patent application;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content of the prospective patent application;
• identifying a first mathematical object in a particular mathematical space, the first mathematical object corresponds to a part of the modified textual content:
• calculating a convolution of at least part of the drawing to determine a second mathematical object;
• determining a suggested modification to the drawing based on the first mathematical object and the second mathematical object;
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• presenting the suggested modification to an individual.

A method for modifying drawings based on changes to prospective patent applications, the method comprising:

• accessing a textual content of a prospective patent application;
• accessing a visual content of a drawing for the prospective patent application;
• receiving an indication of a modification to the textual content of the prospective patent application;
• identifying a first mathematical object in a particular mathematical space, the first mathematical object corresponds to a part of the textual content;
• identifying a second mathematical object in the particular mathematical space, the second mathematical object corresponds to a part of the modified textual content;
• calculating a function of the first mathematical object and the second mathematical object to obtain a third mathematical object in the particular mathematical space;
• based on the modification to the textual content and the third mathematical object, analyzing the visual content of the drawing to determine a suggested modification to the drawing;
• and
• presenting the suggested modification to an individual.