RE: [PIUG List] Beyond Keywords: Concept searching for patents

May I gently suggest that your proposal committee will likely object to the=
 words "new" and "concept searching" appearing in the same sentence? At le=
ast it should be accompanied by significant qualifiers and a bunch of citat=
ions.

Alan

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Please comment on whether you think this is useful, who might
 want it, or why it's a waste of time.

A friend and I researching a new way to search for patents at UT
 Austin. We call the new method "Concept Searching."

 Currently people are forced to search on terms that are tied to form.
 By the nature of the English language, it is very easy to create many
 different descriptions for products that perform the same essential
 functions. Our algorithm can parse plain text into (partial, but
 useful) conceptual models as well as the implicit customer needs from
 the patent description. This enables two or more products that may
 appear to be different based on architecture or layout, to be
 functionally compared to determine true novelty or uniqueness.
 Conceptual models are universal, machine readable, and have a
 one-to-one correspondence with products.

Thanks!

Jeremy Guillory
jeremy.guillory_at_gmail.com

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