Patent Document ID: 7801909
Application ID: 10665237

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for identifying potential patent infringement, comprising: means for inputting information regarding a patent; a processing device configured to: identify at least one claim of the patent, parse the at least one claim to identify at least one term in the at least one claim, formulate a search query comprising the at least one term, automatically generate and transmit a natural language question to a chat room, obtain information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services from the chat room in response to the question, and perform a search of the information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services using the search query; and means for outputting result of the search.

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Claim 5:
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising: a receiver for receiving at least one of patent information from a user communication device and a response to a request for information from an information source computer.