METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEER DETECTION

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system delivering graph-based metric to measure a similarity between weighted sets of classifications codes (presented as nodes) defined on hierarchical taxonomy trees. The suggested method is applied to find company peers in a particular domain, e.g., the IP domain based on a company patent portfolio. The suggested method may be applied to other domains that include hierarchical classifications such as trademarks, legal documents, scientific papers, lawsuits etc.

主权项

1. A computer-based system for processing a user query to detect a set of peers and generate a graphical representation of detected peers responsive to the query, the system comprising:
a peer detection search engine executed by a computer in communication with at least one database, the peer detection search engine being adapted to receive a peer query and, based at least in part on the peer query, to search at least one corpus of documents contained in the at least one database, the peer detection search engine comprising: a feature extraction module adapted to extract data from files contained in the at least one corpus of documents, the extracted data related to content associated with documents; a portfolio comparison module adapted to determine a set of similarity scores based at least in part on a set of the extracted data; and a graphical interface generation module adapted to transform the set of similarity scores and generate and present on a remote user display a graphical representation of the transformed set of similarity scores for visual perception by a human user associated with the remote user display.