Patent Document ID: 20110289040
Application ID: 12800648
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing the relationship of events according to a taxonomic structure having separate predefined layers in a hierarchical classification system comprising the steps of: 1. determining the frequency distribution of the events with respect to the classification system; and, 2. distributing the frequency distribution to all layers of the taxonomic structure so that each layer reflects the frequency of events below it; and, 3. normalizing and weighting the frequency distribution with respect to all events either unary or binary or both; and, 4. determining a discriminate function which may take the form of a linear or non-linear combination of values useful in. A method of harvesting latent information within a patent portfolio and other patent related materials, resulting from constituting the collective body of patent information analytical decisions of others comprising 1. utilizing a hierarchical classification system applied to the recorded and qualifiable analytical decisions in the collective body of patent information which system is a decision tree hierarchical taxonomical structure; 2. wherein said decision tree structure defines a set of relationships between the nodes of said structure wherein each node represents a unique and distinct category and has a single parent and zero or more child nodes and few or more sibling nodes; 3. the classification system further being structured such that there exist a predetermined number of levels with the highest being the broadest and the lower levels being the more specific developing a mathematical equation to express the measure of probability of unary and binary events among the hierarchical levels of the classification system to facilitate; 4. developing an association index between the happening of one event and the likelihood of the happening of another event.