PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966191
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["707", "723000"]

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 11):
A computer system for generating a score for a candidate answer to an input query, the system comprising:\n a computer device comprising at least one distinct software module, each distinct software module being embodied on a tangible computer-readable medium; a memory for holding data; and at least one processor unit operatively coupled to the memory and operative for: receiving an input query; identifying a candidate answer to the input query; identifying a logical proof of the candidate answer, the logical proof including a conclusion and a sequence of premises that logically prove the conclusion, including using the candidate answer as the conclusion of the logical proof, searching through a group of documents to identify a sub-group of documents of the group of documents, each document of the sub-group of documents including one or more of the premises of the logical proof, and wherein each of the premises of the logical proof is included in at least one of the documents of the sub-group of document; using an iterative process, including a sequence of steps, to select, from said sup-group of documents, a set of documents that establish all the premises of the logical proof, including\n at each of the steps, selecting for said set of documents one of the documents that, of the documents of said sub-group of documents, has the largest number of the premises of the logical proof that, at the time of said each step, are not included in any of the documents in the set of documents; and \n using the set of documents to generate a score for the candidate answer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 707.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15432449', '15861390', '13244350', '13618131', '15348431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2556285449928913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5783672980944529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2879024203030474
- Mean Citation Score: 456.64697400000006
- Max Citation Score: 471.00146
- Similarity Product: 451.01041877796285

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test