Patent Document ID: 7904408
Application ID: 11803601

Base Claim:
1. A computer based method for monitoring innovation activity, comprising: accumulating first metadata associated with a first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; extracting a first plurality of patterns from said first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; creating a first plurality of concept spaces, using rules-based processing, said first metadata, and said first patterns; grouping, using rules-based processing, said first metadata, and said first plurality of patterns, said first plurality of intellectual knowledge files into first respective concept spaces in said first plurality of concept spaces; and, generating a report, said report correlating said first plurality of intellectual knowledge files and said first respective concept spaces, wherein said steps of accumulating, extracting, creating, grouping, and generating are performed by a general-purpose computer specially programmed to perform said steps of accumulating, extracting, creating, grouping, and generating.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising: accumulating third metadata associated with a second plurality of intellectual knowledge files; extracting a second plurality of patterns from said second plurality of intellectual knowledge files; creating a third plurality of concept spaces, using rules-based processing, said first and third metadata, and said first and second pluralities of patterns; and, grouping, using rules-based processing, said first and third metadata, and said first and second pluralities of patterns, said first and second pluralities of intellectual knowledge files into respective concept spaces in said third plurality of concept spaces, wherein said steps of accumulating, extracting, creating, and grouping are performed by said general-purpose computer.