Patent ID: 9715499
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A data processing system configured to facilitate analysis of patent documents relevant to one or more technologies of interest, the patent documents including patents and patent applications, the system comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory with computer code instructions stored thereon, the at least one processor and the at least one memory, with the computer code instructions, configured to cause the data processing system to implement: a search handler configured to receive a selected configuration for an interactive patent map, the selected interactive patent map configuration providing an arrangement of representative patent documents for the interactive patent map based on: an engine, in communication with the handler, configured to process, using a database of results, the selected interactive patent map configuration to provide a responsive interactive patent map, such that the representative patent documents responsive to the technological branches are arranged on the resulting interactive patent map according to assignee; wherein the representative patent documents responsive to the technological branches are arranged on the resulting interactive patent map according to assignee, such that an assignee's patent documents are clustered on the resulting interactive patent map based on a technological category associated with the representative patent documents; and wherein in response to a user hovering a mouse over a representative patent document visual indicator represented on the map, displaying bibliographic information about the respective representative patent document.