Method and apparatus for evaluating documents with correlating information
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorJeffery L. Carter
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method for producing correlating information with respect to a target document, the method including providing a target document, the target document including patent content; processing the target document to obtain an information structure; producing a search criteria from the information structure; searching computer readable media based upon the search criteria to obtain search material; and comparing the search material to contents of the target document to produce the correlating information. An apparatus for using the method is also disclosed.
Claims25
A method for producing correlating information with respect to a target document, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a target document, the target document including patent content;
- processing the target document to obtain an information structure, wherein said information structure comprises a tree structure ontology;
- producing a search criteria from the information structure;
- searching computer readable media based upon the search criteria to obtain search material;
- and
- comparing the search material to contents of the target document to produce the correlating information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.