Advanced Text to Speech Patent Search Engine

A patent and non-patent literature search system comprising:

• a user friendly interface that allows a user to input a plurality of search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) in a plurality of search input interfaces, wherein the user can assign priorities/ranks to the search terms/features before the execution of the search,
• wherein the priorities/ranks to the search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) can be assigned by the user by inputting a priority number in a priority input interface adjacent to the search input interface,
• wherein the user friendly interface includes selectively highlighting interfaces that allow a user to selectively highlight the search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) by selecting one or more of the selectively highlighting interfaces,
• wherein the user friendly interface includes selectively coloring interfaces that allow a user to selectively highlight his search terms/features (keywords or combination of keywords with operators) by the color of his choice by selecting one or more of the selectively coloring interfaces,
• wherein the user friendly interfaces includes a semantic rank interface that allows a user to input a number of keywords to enhance the semantics and the ranking of the references.

A text to speech conversion patent and non-patent literature search system as set forth in claim 18, wherein the keyboard commands for the navigation of the references include

• Shift for going to the previous patent/patent pub,
• Up Arrow for switching from one feature down to one feature up,
• Down Arrow for Switching from one feature up to one feature down,
• Home for reading title,
• Page up for reading abstract,
• Page down for reading claims,
• End for going to the next patent/patent pub, and
• Asterisk for copying the current patent/application and saving in a collection folder.