Patent ID: 8316001

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of performing patent analysis on data derived from a web-based search engine, the method comprising: receiving at a web-based search engine a patent search query specified by a user; operating the web-based search engine to make search results content available in response to the search query, such content including a list of patents; serving a web page, including both analysis computer code and the search results content, to a client digital computing device; and causing display, in the client digital computing device, of the served web page, wherein the digital computing device executes a browser application that causes the analysis computer code to be executed by the client digital computing device and not by a separate server, thereby analyzing data associated with the search results content, according to criteria specified by the user when specifying the search query, to produce analysis results that apply to all patents on the list, and wherein the search results content is one element and the analysis results are another element of the displayed web page.