Prior Art Express Search Guide - The IP.com Prior Art Database
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1. apple not w 20 pear is not the same as pear not w 20 apple In the apple not w 20 pear reguest the facility searches for apple and excludes cases where apple is too close to pear In the pear not w 20 apple reguest the facility search for pear and excludes cases where pear is too close to apple Non English Language Searching As noted earlier the search facility natively operates in English However searching for any language is fully enabled Simply enter the non English words containing the appropriate characters as your normally would It is therefore possible to search for a German titled document like this title contains ortsabh ngige w 5 teilnehmerverf gbarkeit To fully utilize the capabilities of the search facilities note that the individual characters in all Eastern language Chinese Korean and Japanese documents are indexed as individual words In Japanese this is true regardless of whether the actual word is a combination of Kata and Kana characters Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com Credits This document was adopted from the dtSearch Version 6 Users Manual Chapter 6 Search Requests dtSearch s Text Retrieval Engine powers IP com s online full text search facility Visit dtSearch Corp at http www dtsearch com Visit IP com at http ip com2. 3 ip com Prior Art Express Search Guide Copyright IP com gt Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com Prior Art Express Search Guide This guide includes an overview of the IP com Prior Art Express search facility including syntax available Boolean and position operators and functions such as wildcards and numeric ranging The Prior Art Express search performs a traditional text based guery directed at the non patent defensive publications stored in the IP com Prior Art Database The underlying keyword index used supports all languages Disclosures published into the Prior Art Database become available in this index shortly upon completion of processing You may print a copy of this paper for your personal reference Syntax Overview A search reguest consists of a group of words of phrases linked by connectors such as and and or that indicate the relationship between them Examples Apple and pear Both words must be present Apple or pear Either word can be present Apple w 5 pear Apple must occur within 5 words of pear Apple not w 5 pear Apple must not occur within 5 words of pear Apple and not pear Only apple must be present Name contains smith The field name must contain smith If you use more than one connector you should use parentheses to indicate precisely what you want to search for For example apple and pear or orange could mean apple and pear or orange or it could mean apple and pear or orange Search
3. hing When the search facility indexes packages or publications it saves certain information so that you can perform searches limited to a particular field For example suppose the database has a NAME field and a DESCRIPTION field You could search for apple in the NAME field like this NAME contains apple Field searches can be combined using and or and not like this CITY contains boston or york and ADDRESS contains washington The parentheses are necessary to ensure that the search facility interprets the search reguest correctly IP com Prior Art Database Field Names The IP com Prior Art Database contains some information that may be utilized using field searching Note that the inclusion of these fields and the guality of the information they contain is decided by the submitter of the document not by IP com The fields are as follows Field Description TITLE Generally submitters provide descriptive titles for documents ABSTRACT Most but not all documents have useful abstracts COPYRIGHT Some documents have copyright information the format of the information is unpredictable RELATED PEOPLE This field includes all information regarding each related person A related person for example could be the author or inventor of the disclosure Some documents contain related people information RELATED DOCUMENTS Includes all information regarding each related document A related document may include a patent applicatio
4. ing functions Fuzzy searching Phonic searching Stemming It is recommended that you omit these special characters from your search queries if you do not want them impacting your results by performing the functions outlined above Numeric Range Searching A numeric range search is a search for any numbers that fall within a range To add a numeric range component to a search request enter the upper and lower bounds of the search separated by like this apple w 5 12 17 This request would find any document containing apple within 5 words of a number between 12 and 17 Numeric range searches only work with positive integers A numeric range search includes the upper and lower bounds so 12 and 17 would be retrieved in the above example For purposes of numeric range searching decimal points and commas are treated as spaces and minus signs are ignored For example 123 456 78 would be interpreted as 123 456 78 three numbers Variable Term Weighting When the search facility sorts search results after a search by default all words in a request count equally in counting hits However you can change this by specifying the relative weights for each term in your search request like this apple 5 and pear 1 This request would retrieve the same documents as apple and pear but the search facility would weight apple five times as heavily as pear when sorting the results Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com Field Searc
5. mple apple w 5 pear Retrieves any document that contains apple within 5 words of pear The following are examples of search requests using W apple or pear w 5 banana apple w 5 banana w 10 pear apple and banana w 10 pear Some types of complex expressions using the W connector will produce ambiguous results and should not be used The following are examples of ambiguous search results apple and banana w 10 pear and grape apple w 10 banana w 10 pear and grape In general at least one of the two expressions connected by W must be a single word or phrase or a group of words and phrases connected by OR Examples apple and banana w 10 pear or grape apple and banana w 10 orange tree Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com The NOT and NOT W Connectors You may use NOT in front of any search expression to reverse its meaning This allows you to exclude documents from a search Example apple sauce and not pear NOT standing alone can be the start of a search reguest For example the following would retrieve all documents that did not contain pear not pear If NOT is not the first connector in a request you need to use either AND or OR with NOT apple or not pear not apple w 5 pear The NOT W not within operator allows you to search for a word or phrase not in association with another word or phrase Example apple not w 20 pear Unlike the W operator NOT W is not symmetrical That is
6. n number for example Few documents contain related document information ORIGINAL DATE The ORIGINAL DATE field contains month and year information in the form YYYYMM YYYY is the year MM is the month This is the month and year the document originally appeared in print if it was not originally published using the Prior Art Database or it repeats the Prior Art Database month and year of publication The format allows the use of the numeric range operator For example to search for all documents from the year 2004 which contain the term IBM use the guery IBM and original date contains 200401 200412 Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com The AND Connector Use the AND connector in a search reguest to connect two expressions both of which must be found in any document retrieved For example apple pie and poached pear Retrieve any document tat contains both phrases apple or banana and Retrieves any document that 1 contains either pear w 5 grape apple or banana and 2 contains pear within 5 words of grape The OR Connector Use the OR connector in a search reguest to connect two expressions at least one of which must be found in any document retrieved For example apple pie or poached pear Retrieves any document that contains apple pie poached pear or both The W Connector Use the W connector in a search reguest to specify that one word or phrase must occur within some number of words or the other For exa
7. terms may include the following special characters Matches any single character appl matches apply or apple Matches any number of characters appl matches apply application or apples Fuzzy search ba nana matches banana bananna Phonic search1 smith matches smith smythe Stemming2 apply matches apply applies applied Inclusive numeric range 12 24 matches 18 Variable term weighting apple 4 w 5 pear 1 Words and Phrases You do not need to use any special punctuation or commands to search for a phrase Simply enter the phrase the way it ordinarily appears You can use a phrase anywhere in a search request Example apple w 5 fruit salad Punctuation inside of a search word is treated as a space Thus can t would be treated as a phrase consisting of two words can and t 1843 c 8 ii would become 1843 c 8 ii four words Prior Art Express Search Guide IP com Note that all words regardless of their semantic value are indexed This includes words that are sometimes considered noise such as the a or of Therefore searching for the theory of relativity is likely to return better results when expressed as theory w 2 relativity Using the wildcard character near the beginning of a word may noticeably slow searches Special Characters and If your search contains any of the following special characters they may impact your search results These special characters perform the follow
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