| CPC G06F 16/30 (2019.01) [G06F 16/93 (2019.01)] | 19 Claims |
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1. A computer implemented method comprising:
assigning documents to one or more document families, each document family comprising one or more documents, wherein each document is selected from a group consisting of a patent document and a patent application document;
calculating, for each document family, a document family coverage score DFCS, the document family coverage score being indicative of the validity of the document family in a category, whereby the validity is calculated from one or more first properties of each document belonging to said document family;
calculating, for each document family, a document family linkage score DFLS, said document family linkage score being calculated by
finding one or more document links, each document link connecting a source document to a destination document, each destination document belonging to said document family, each source document belonging to another document family;
finding one or more document family links, whereby each document family link connects a source document family with said document family, said document family acting as destination document family, whereby the existence of each document family link is derived from the one or more found document links and wherein the DFLS is derived from the existence and weight of the one or more found document family links; and
calculating, for each document family, a document family combined relevance score DFCR by multiplying the document family coverage score DFCS and the document family, linkage score DFLS having been calculated for each document family;
grouping document families into one or more portfolios, each portfolio comprising one or more document families; and
densely displaying, for each document portfolio, an aggregated view in which a plurality of data values are displayed in a summarized form on a graphical user interface with the summarized form providing a visualization of relationships between all documents in the document portfolio, the aggregated view comprising or being derived from one or more aggregated score values, the one or more aggregated score values being calculated by applying an aggregating function on the DFCR, the DFLS, or the DFCS value of the one or more document families of said portfolio.
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