PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861390
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["707", "741000"]

Abstract:
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying a plurality of candidate answers to the query; and for at least one of these candidate answers, identifying at least one proof of the answer. This proof includes a series of premises, and a multitude of documents are identified that include references to the premises. A set of these documents is selected that include references to all of the premises. This set of documents is used to generate one or more scores for the one of the candidate answers. A defined procedure is applied to the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the answers, and this includes using the one or more scores for the at least one of the candidate answers in the defined procedure to determine the ranking for this one candidate answer.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the selecting the plurality of the identified documents to form the set of documents for said each logical proof includes identifying a number of the premises of said each logical proof in each of the identified documents.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 707.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15348431', '13244350', '13618131', '15432449', '13612473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2703328191329724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6099204941976861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3042915866394438
- Mean Citation Score: 459.01810000000006
- Max Citation Score: 538.55804
- Similarity Product: 508.9912086887288

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test