Currently, there exists no online search engine for general keyword searching of provisional patent applications in a manner similar to the USPTO patent search database, WIPO’s patentscope database and Google Patents. Typically, provisional applications are not part of the “prior art” relating to a patent search and are not typically deemed as “printed publications” in the eyes of the United States Patent & Trademark Office. However, as we often say in Silicon Valley, there is a “hack” to gaining access to particular provisional applications given a combination of a known title, serial number, filing data and possible inventors associated with the desired “target” provisional application. One critical reason why one would want to access a provisional application is to gain temporal insights as to what actual inventive features were primordially present in the provisional application and, perhaps, evolved or originally intact as related to the corresponding issued patent or published non-provisional application that can be easily accessed online.