Intellectual property discovery and mapping systems and methods
AssigneeNovell, Inc.
InventorStephen R. Carter
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Abstract
An apparatus can include an information gathering module, a semantic abstract generation module, and an intellectual property space identification module. The information gathering module can retrieve information pertaining to intellectual property activities within a particular technical field. The semantic abstract generation module can generate semantic abstracts based on the information retrieved by the information gathering module. The intellectual property space identification module can perform an evaluation of the particular technical field based on the generated semantic abstracts.
Claims25
An apparatus, comprising:
- an information gathering module operable to retrieve information pertaining to a plurality of presently existing intellectual property activities within a particular technical field;
- a semantic abstract generator operable to receive the retrieved information from the information gathering module and to generate a plurality of semantic abstracts based on the retrieved information;
- and
- an intellectual property space identification module comprising a semantic abstract evaluation module operable to measure distances between at least some of the plurality of generated semantic abstracts.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- identifying a first plurality of intellectual property activities for a user entity, the first plurality of intellectual property activities pertaining to at least one particular technical field;
- identifying a second plurality of intellectual property activities for at least one competitor, the second plurality of intellectual property activities pertaining to the at least one particular technical field;
- generating a first plurality of semantic abstracts based on the first plurality of intellectual property activities;
- generating a second plurality of semantic abstracts based on the second plurality of intellectual property activities;
- performing a comparison of the first and second generated pluralities of semantic abstracts;
- generating one or more recommendations based on the comparison;
- and
- transmitting a report comprising the one or more recommendations.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving an identification of at least one particular technical field for a user entity;
- identifying a plurality of intellectual property activities pertaining to the at least one particular technical field;
- generating a plurality of semantic abstracts based on the plurality of intellectual property activities;
- evaluating the generated plurality of semantic abstracts;
- generating a report based on the evaluating;
- and
- providing the generated report.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.