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From Static Textual Display of Patents to Graphical Interactions

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Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

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Abstract

Increasingly, visualisation is becoming a crucial part of patent search and analysis tools. Due to the benefits for accessing and presenting large amounts of data quickly, it is highly relevant for common tasks in the intellectual property domain. Graphical representations become an even more powerful instrument by adding interactive methods allowing for the user-guided-change of perspectives and the exploration of the presented information. A close integration of interactive visualisation into search and analysis cycles can leverage seamless search and analysis environments, as proposed for similar tasks in the relatively new research field of visual analytics. This chapter proposes such a visual analytics approach for the intellectual property domain. One possible way to accomplish this integration is shown on the basis of the research software prototype PatViz. The chapter contains a discussion of the benefits as well as the difficulties arising through the realisation of such a system as well as an outlook on how the methods can be exploited for collaboration tasks.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In 2010, the former ‘IEEE Symposium for Visual Analytics System and Techniques’ is a full conference collocated with the ‘IEEE Conference on Visualization’ and the ‘IEEE Conference on Information Visualization’, all three being part of the enclosing VisWeek event.

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    Very well-known are conferences such as the ACM SIGCHI. Additionally, a variety of scientific journals, for example, the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, constitute further important resources for this area of research. The mentioned textbook [2] focuses especially on interacting with visually displayed information, while [12] provides a broader view on interaction techniques.

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    Trippe describes a set of common tasks for patent search and analysis in [13], and provides an overview of commercial tools to tackle them [14]. A more recent survey can be found in Yang et al. [15]. Moehrle et al. [16] also contribute a current outline of commercial systems and relate them to a taxonomy based on a business process model.

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    Chen et al. suggest a theoretical framework for the management [18] of (visual) insights that could be used as the basis for insight transport.

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    The PatViz visualization system is used here as an example for the following reasons: both authors have been involved in its development and are therefore familiar with its architecture. Furthermore, it has been developed as an academic prototype with the ideas in mind that are presented here.

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    http://www.patexpert.org.

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    http://www.visualanalytics.de.

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    The technology described in Polaris has been successfully commercialised by Tableau Software: http://www.tableausoftware.com/.

  9. 9.

    Marti Hearst’s book, ‘Search user interfaces’ [27] gives an elaborate overview of strategies and current state of the art in searching within digital repositories. Especially Chaps. 3 and 10 are highly relevant in the context of this section.

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  1. Information Retrieval Facility, Donau-City Straße 1, Vienna, 1220, Austria

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Koch, S., Bosch, H. (2011). From Static Textual Display of Patents to Graphical Interactions. In: Lupu, M., Mayer, K., Tait, J., Trippe, A. (eds) Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19231-9_11

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