US 6,311,176 B1 · Method and data structure for the computer-aided management of developments

Abstract

The computer-aided official management system for developments described in patents and publications, which limits the official examination work for each development and substantially supports development management, permits data to be organized in a classification system with low redundancy. The management system contains a multiplicity of development systems (1) which emerge from one another by means of set operations via orientated relationships (4), in that each development system (1) is linked to a database (11), which contains, in particular, the definition of the development system (1) serving as a reference system (2), the formulation and status of each individual relationship (4) forming the development system (1), as well as unique indicators to further data. The development systems are uniquely defined as intersection sets in the data structure for linking previously separately considered reference systems via the relationships (4).

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Dependent claims

A method of computer-aided management of a database having a neural data structure in order to update the database for developments by a multiplicity of development inventors and to evaluate individual developments in view of the entire database, the method comprising the steps of:

a) storing the database in a database storage and management system, said database storage system comprising at least one computer storage means and at least one document filing system of an artificial intelligence system;
b) registering developments by finding relationships between each of the developments and one or several reference systems which appear most obvious and storing the relationships in a relational databank associated with the respective developments;
c) determining the accuracy of each of said relationships and changing a status of each of said relationships, as needed, according to said accuracy;
d) successively adapting the data structure of the database to the respective developments;
e) making the relationships of the data structure dynamic by integration of the database into the artificial intelligence system, said artificial intelligence system being optionally based on physiologic;
f) performing operations available in the artificial intelligence system on elements in the database including the developments;
and
g) monitoring the developments in the database in order to determine a level or degree of inventiveness of different developments;
whereby the database becomes an expert system characterized by a continuously lower data redundancy.

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