SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND PROVIDING PATENT INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY

摘要

A method for monitoring and providing patent information automatically is disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining whether a monitored patent Web site has issued new patents; downloading the new patents if the patent Web site has issued new patents; issuing one or more reports describing information of the downloaded patents; obtaining preconfigured patent search string stored in the database; determining whether the one or more reports contain the whole patent search string; searching the downloaded patents to obtain search results if the one or more reports contain the whole patent search string; saving the search results into the database as an XML document; creating a list according to the XML document; determining whether the number of the search results in the list is null; and sending the list to related users if the number of the search results in the list is not null.