2D Grid Visualization for Patent Treatment Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in quickly and efficiently understanding how a document has been treated across different jurisdictions or over time when presented with a lengthy list of citing documents, making it impractical to visualize the treatment patterns.
Innovation Solution
A two-dimensional graphical grid representation is generated, using a matrix with a vertical axis for treatment types and a horizontal axis for jurisdictions or time, where each cell displays the number of occurrences of a treatment type, allowing for a visual summary and easy interaction to drill down into specific citing documents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a textual list view of citing documents is presented to users, then complete treatment information is provided, but user understanding and analysis efficiency deteriorates due to the burden of scrolling and scanning through lengthy lists
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the one-dimensional textual list view into a two-dimensional graphical grid representation. The grid organizes treatment types along one axis and citing documents along the other axis, allowing users to visually perceive treatment patterns across multiple documents simultaneously. This dimensional transformation enables users to comprehend comprehensive treatment information without the need to scroll through lengthy lists, thereby resolving the contradiction between information completeness and analysis efficiency.
2Ease of operation
If citing documents are grouped and displayed in categories with treatment types, then treatment patterns become more organized, but user comprehension burden increases due to the complexity of navigating multiple categories and lists
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the organization of treatment types and citing documents into a single integrated graphical grid representation. Instead of presenting separate category lists and treatment type lists that require coordinated navigation, the grid combines both dimensions into one visual structure where treatment types and documents intersect. This merging eliminates the need to navigate multiple separate interfaces while maintaining comprehensive organization, thereby reducing interface complexity while preserving information organization.
3Loss of information
If a detailed list of all citing documents is displayed, then complete treatment data is available, but visual perception and quick understanding of treatment patterns becomes impractical
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs color coding to represent different treatment types within the graphical grid representation. Each treatment type is assigned a distinct color or visual indicator that appears in the corresponding cells of the grid. This visual encoding allows users to quickly detect and comprehend treatment patterns across multiple citing documents without reading detailed text descriptions. The color changes enable rapid visual perception of treatment distribution while maintaining complete treatment data, thereby resolving the contradiction between data completeness and pattern visualization.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of a document are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to generate the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to at least one variable. In response to the received request, the method further includes retrieving, by a computer, treatment information associated with the document with respect to the at least one variable from a database. The method further includes generating a message containing the retrieved treatment information of the document with respect to the at least one variable, transmitting the generated message, and providing for display the two-dimensional graphical grid representation of the treatment of the document with respect to the at least one variable based on the transmitted message.