Patent ID: 9092545
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of enabling review of patents in a group of patents, comprising: generating a group of patents comprising a plurality of electronic patent documents; displaying a list of patents in said group of patents; searching a local database to determine whether requested information for a patent from the list of patents is locally available, the requested information comprising image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; previewing a subset of the requested information from another database in response to the requested information being unavailable locally; requesting the requested information from the another database in response to the previewing; displaying the image data representative of at least a portion of the patent; in response to a received command to view a next patent from the list of patents, retrieving and displaying at least image data representative of at least a portion of the next patent; in response to a received command to perform a patent citation function with respect to a selected patent in the group, linking patents and patent related documents that: in response to a received command, creating a new temporary group as a subset of the plurality of electronic patent documents; and in response to a received command, converting the new temporary group to a permanent group.