Patent ID: 7849117

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium having computerized tool for use on a computer apparatus having input interfaces for receiving information, a memory for storing information and a user interface, configured for facilitating forward looking strategic analyses of a collection of technical documents each having a searchable text and associated bibliographic information including a source and a date, comprising computer-assisted steps: performing a first search to identify a subset (second collection) of documents focused on a particular field, identifying those documents in the subset relevant to each of “m” “actions”; identifying those documents in the subset relevant to each of “n” “objects”; combining each of the “m” actions with each of the “n” objects to construct an “m”×“n” array of “cells”, such that each of the cells is associated only with the documents in said subset that were identified as relevant both to the respective action and to the respective object; applying at least two scoring metrics to the bibliographic data for the documents associated with each of the cells, at least one of the scoring metrics including a time weighted predictive factor; and generating a graph showing each of the applied scoring metrics for each of the array cells.