CN111160870A - Patent file generation method, device and system and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a device, a system and a storage medium for generating a patent file, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image, and numbering each structural component respectively; storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database, and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image; outputting each feature component in a list form, so that a user combines each feature component to generate a claim, and saving the generated claim to the database; based on the claims, the claims items in the claims are divided into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade, the specification is generated according to different grades, and the specification is saved in the database. The technical problems that a great deal of energy is consumed for writing application files and the operation is inconvenient are solved, and the effects of reducing writing and submitting workloads are achieved.

Description

Patent file generation method, device and system and storage medium

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of auxiliary file generation, in particular to a patent file generation method, a device, a system and a storage medium.

Background

With the deep development of the economic globalization and the explosion of the knowledge economy, the patent is not only an important property right and intangible asset, but also an important competitive resource of enterprises, and is an open-circuit pioneer and a firm backdoor for the enterprises to participate in market competition and to obtain survival and development. The development level of the patent is a strategic mark for measuring the comprehensive strength, the development capability and the core competitiveness of a region.

The patent application document writing process is a process of converting a technical document into a legal document, and currently, an agent writes a patent specification which is usually based on a traditional text editor, and simultaneously opens a plurality of webpage windows to inquire some professional knowledge in a patent filing book, so that the work flow tends to be disordered; moreover, when the agent digs the claim in a combined way, the working efficiency is greatly reduced only by means of personal memory and traditional notes. A large amount of fixed reusable texts exist in the writing process of the agent, and the agent is required to input manually under normal conditions; the accumulation of work results such as commonly used sentence vocabularies and the like in the writing process of the agent only depends on personal habits of the agent, the system work habits cannot be formed, the work efficiency is improved, and the text format needs to be manually adjusted after the patent writing is finished so as to meet the requirements submitted by the patent office.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, a system, and a storage medium for generating a patent document, so as to solve the problems of energy consumption and inconvenient operation in a patent document processing process in the prior art.

In order to achieve the above object, the embodiments of the present invention provide the following technical solutions:

a patent document generation method, the method comprising:

acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image, and numbering each structural component respectively;

storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database, and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image;

outputting each feature component in a list form, so that a user combines each feature component to generate a claim, and saving the generated claim to the database;

dividing each claim item in the claims into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade based on the claims, generating a specification according to different grades, and saving the specification to the database;

and outputting the generated requirements, the specifications and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format.

Further, still include:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

Further, still include:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

Further, the dividing, based on the claims, the claim items in the claims into an independent level and a dependent level, generating the description according to different levels, and saving the description to the database specifically includes:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

The invention also provides a patent file generation device for implementing the method, which comprises the following steps:

the image identification module is used for acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image and numbering each structural component; the system is also used for storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image;

the claim generation module is used for outputting each characteristic component in a list form, so that a user can combine each characteristic component to generate a claim and store the generated claim to the database;

the instruction generation module is used for dividing each claim item in the claims into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade based on the claims, generating instructions according to different grades and storing the instructions to the database;

and the text export module is used for outputting the generated requirement specification, the generated description and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format.

Further, the system also comprises a retrieval module, wherein the retrieval module is used for:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

Further, the system also comprises a user module, wherein the user module is used for:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

Further, the instruction generation module is specifically configured to:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

The invention also provides a patent file generation system, which comprises: a processor and a memory;

the memory is to store one or more program instructions;

the processor is configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the method as described above.

The present invention also provides a computer storage medium having one or more program instructions embodied therein for use by a patent document generation system to perform a method as described above.

The patent document generation method, the device, the system and the storage medium provided by the invention realize the automatic conversion from the picture to the character by identifying and extracting the characteristics of the product picture, and generates alternative claim combination modes and specification texts according to the combination and selection of the characteristic components, the method generates an initial draft of editable claims and specifications by acquiring feature components and feature relationships, so that the user can adjust the application document according to the initial draft of the claim, and can automatically convert, output and store the text meeting the submission format after the adjustment is finished, therefore, the technical problems that due to the fact that a plurality of working steps are carried out in the patent writing process, the traditional solving means is low in efficiency and the work flow is disordered, application files are written, a large amount of energy is consumed, and operation is inconvenient are solved, and the effects of reducing writing and submitting workloads are achieved.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below. It should be apparent that the drawings in the following description are merely exemplary, and that other embodiments can be derived from the drawings provided by those of ordinary skill in the art without inventive effort.

The structures, ratios, sizes, and the like shown in the present specification are only used for matching with the contents disclosed in the specification, so as to be understood and read by those skilled in the art, and are not used to limit the conditions that the present invention can be implemented, so that the present invention has no technical significance, and any structural modifications, changes in the ratio relationship, or adjustments of the sizes, without affecting the effects and the achievable by the present invention, should still fall within the range that the technical contents disclosed in the present invention can cover.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a patent document generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a patent document generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a patent document generation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention is described in terms of particular embodiments, other advantages and features of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following disclosure, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention and that it is not intended to limit the invention to the particular embodiments disclosed. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In a specific embodiment, the patent document generation method provided by the invention is used for assisting a patent agent to generate an application document for editing and conversion, and can jump to a retrieval page at the same time of document generation so as to improve the writing efficiency and avoid frequent conversion among a plurality of documents. As shown in fig. 1, the method includes:

s1: acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image, and numbering each structural component respectively; specifically, after a user inputs a product image, names of products, parts and structures embodied in the product image can be extracted as structural components by using an image recognition and extraction technology, the products, the parts and the structures can be numbered respectively for facilitating subsequent retrieval, and feature information of the structural components corresponding to the numbers is stored in a database.

S2: storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database, and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image; that is, the uploading/naming function of patent specification drawings is provided, the component numbers in the pictures are identified through an image identification technology, the components are stored in a database as feature points and are associated with the pictures, and meanwhile, the function of manually adding/deleting the feature points is provided.

S3: outputting each feature component in a list form, so that a user combines each feature component to generate a claim, and saving the generated claim to the database; specifically, according to an attached drawing of a specification uploaded by a user, all current feature points of a patent are listed for the user, so that the user can combine the feature points to generate a claim item and simultaneously store the claim item in a database.

S4: dividing each claim item in the claims into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade based on the claims, generating a specification according to different grades, and saving the specification to the database; in the process of generating the specification, the following method can be adopted:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

That is, the method provides a specification writing function based on a web page version text editor, and at the same time provides an automatic text generation function. The system carries out word segmentation and query according to the patent titles input by the user, and searches the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system. Meanwhile, the system analyzes the claim combination created by the user, reduces the claim combination into the levels of the main right/the slave right and the like, generates a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clears the attachment relation of the claim item. The system also automatically generates fixed format texts corresponding to all parts of the patent specification according to the content input by the user. The system will also generate corresponding drawing description texts for all the drawings uploaded by the user, and list the characteristic points corresponding to the drawings in the drawings. The user can independently edit and store all the texts.

S5: and outputting the generated requirements, the specifications and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format. The method supports dividing the patent draft created by the user into various parts and outputting the patent draft as the patent specification files, and the patent specification files of the various parts are packaged into compressed files for the user to download. The format of the text file exported by the system is preset according to the template provided by the intellectual property bureau, and the text file can be directly submitted.

Under any editing node of the above steps S1-S5, the method can provide an automatic retrieval function, so that interface switching and retrieval can be realized in the file editing process, and the operation convenience is improved, that is, the method further comprises the following steps:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

Thus, the method provides a knowledge base retrieval function and a user corpus storage function. A user can directly obtain a brief explanation of a keyword in a search engine in a current page by inputting the keyword, and can click a link to jump to a detail page; the method simultaneously supports the user to store the self-written text as patent data for later viewing, and can view the official data provided by the system.

In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data in the database, facilitate the management and maintenance of the user, and need to authenticate the login personnel, therefore, the method further comprises the following steps:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

Therefore, in the using process, the user needs to provide mobile phone number authentication login, and the unregistered user is automatically registered as a system user after logging in through the mobile phone.

In the above embodiment, the patent document generation method provided by the present invention realizes automatic conversion from picture to text by identifying and extracting features of a product picture, and generates alternative claim combination modes and specification texts according to the combination and selection of the characteristic components, the method generates an initial draft of editable claims and specifications by acquiring feature components and feature relationships, so that the user can adjust the application document according to the initial draft of the claim, and can automatically convert, output and store the text meeting the submission format after the adjustment is finished, therefore, the technical problems that application files are written and a large amount of energy is consumed and operation is inconvenient due to the fact that work steps are multiple in the patent writing process, the traditional solving means is low in efficiency and the work flow is disordered are solved, and the effects of reducing writing and submitting workloads are achieved.

In addition to the above method, the present invention further provides a patent document generation apparatus for implementing the above method, as shown in fig. 2, the apparatus comprising:

the image identification module 100 is configured to acquire a product image to be applied, identify structural components in the product image, and number each structural component; the system is also used for storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image; specifically, after a user inputs a product image, names of products, parts and structures embodied in the product image can be extracted as structural components by using an image recognition and extraction technology, the products, the parts and the structures can be numbered respectively for facilitating subsequent retrieval, and feature information of the structural components corresponding to the numbers is stored in a database. That is, the system provides the function of uploading/naming the patent specification drawings, identifies the component numbers in the pictures through the image identification technology, stores the components as feature points into a database and completes the association with the pictures, and provides the function of manually adding/deleting the feature points.

The claim generation module 200 is configured to output each feature component in a list form, so that a user combines each feature component to generate a claim, and stores the generated claim in the database; specifically, according to an attached drawing of a specification uploaded by a user, all current feature points of a patent are listed for the user, so that the user can combine the feature points to generate a claim item and simultaneously store the claim item in a database.

A specification generation module 300, configured to divide the claims into an independent right class and a dependent right class based on the claims, generate a specification according to different classes, and store the specification to the database; in the process of generating the specification, the specification generating module 300 may be specifically configured to:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

That is, the system provides a description writing function based on a web page version text editor, while providing an automatic text generation function. The system carries out word segmentation and query according to the patent titles input by the user, and searches the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system. Meanwhile, the system analyzes the claim combination created by the user, reduces the claim combination into the levels of the main right/the slave right and the like, generates a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clears the attachment relation of the claim item. The system also automatically generates fixed format texts corresponding to all parts of the patent specification according to the content input by the user. The system will also generate corresponding drawing description texts for all the drawings uploaded by the user, and list the characteristic points corresponding to the drawings in the drawings. The user can independently edit and store all the texts.

A text export module 400, configured to output the generated request manual, the generated description, and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format. The device supports dividing the patent draft created by the user into parts and outputting the parts as patent specification files, and the patent specification files of the parts are packaged into compressed files for the user to download. The format of the text file exported by the system is preset according to the template provided by the intellectual property bureau, and the text file can be directly submitted.

Furthermore, the device also comprises a retrieval module so as to realize interface switching and retrieval in the file editing process and improve the operation convenience, wherein the retrieval module is used for:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

Thus, the device provides a knowledge base retrieval function and a user corpus storage function. A user can directly obtain a brief explanation of a keyword in a search engine in a current page by inputting the keyword, and can click a link to jump to a detail page; the method simultaneously supports the user to store the self-written text as patent data for later viewing, and can view the official data provided by the system.

In order to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data in the database, facilitate the management and maintenance of the user, and require the authentication of the login personnel, therefore, the device further comprises a user module, wherein the user module is used for:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

In the above embodiment, the patent document generation device provided by the present invention realizes automatic conversion from picture to text by identifying and extracting features of a product picture, and generates alternative claim combination modes and specification texts according to the combination and selection of the characteristic components, the method generates an initial draft of editable claims and specifications by acquiring feature components and feature relationships, so that the user can adjust the application document according to the initial draft of the claim, and can automatically convert, output and store the text meeting the submission format after the adjustment is finished, therefore, the technical problems that application files are written and a large amount of energy is consumed and operation is inconvenient due to the fact that work steps are multiple in the patent writing process, the traditional solving means is low in efficiency and the work flow is disordered are solved, and the effects of reducing writing and submitting workloads are achieved.

According to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, the present invention further provides a patent document generation system, as shown in fig. 3, the system includes: a processor 201 and a memory 202;

the memory is to store one or more program instructions;

the processor is configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the method as described above.

In correspondence with the above embodiments, embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer storage medium containing one or more program instructions therein. Wherein the one or more program instructions are for execution by a patent document generation system to perform the method as described above.

Although the invention has been described in detail above with reference to a general description and specific examples, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications or improvements may be made thereto based on the invention. Accordingly, such modifications and improvements are intended to be within the scope of the invention as claimed.

Claims (10)

1. A patent document generation method, characterized in that the method comprises:

acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image, and numbering each structural component respectively;

storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database, and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image;

outputting each feature component in a list form, so that a user combines each feature component to generate a claim, and saving the generated claim to the database;

dividing each claim item in the claims into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade based on the claims, generating a specification according to different grades, and saving the specification to the database;

and outputting the generated requirements, the specifications and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format.

2. The patent document generation method according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

3. The patent document generation method according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

4. The method for generating a patent document according to claim 1, wherein the dividing, based on the claims, each claim item in the claims into an independent level and a dependent level, generating a description according to different levels, and saving the description to the database specifically comprises:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

5. A patent document generation apparatus for implementing the method of any one of claims 1-4, the apparatus comprising:

the image identification module is used for acquiring a product image to be applied, identifying structural components in the product image and numbering each structural component; the system is also used for storing each structural component as a characteristic component into a database and establishing association between each characteristic component and the product image;

the claim generation module is used for outputting each characteristic component in a list form, so that a user can combine each characteristic component to generate a claim and store the generated claim to the database;

the instruction generation module is used for dividing each claim item in the claims into an independent right grade and a dependent right grade based on the claims, generating instructions according to different grades and storing the instructions to the database;

and the text export module is used for outputting the generated requirement specification, the generated description and the acquired product image in a patent text submission format.

6. The patent document generation apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a retrieval module configured to:

acquiring a retrieval keyword;

and acquiring a brief explanation of the retrieval key words in a search engine at the current page, and generating a clickable link capable of jumping to a detail page.

7. The patent document generation apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a user module, the user module being configured to:

acquiring user login information;

judging that the current user logs in for the first time, registering by taking a login mobile phone number as registration information, and jumping to a login interface;

and if the current user is judged to be not logged in for the first time, jumping to a login interface.

8. The patent document generation apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the instruction generation module is specifically configured to:

performing word segmentation and query according to patent titles input by a user, searching the closest background technical text from the existing patent data of the system, and generating the background technology of the specification;

analyzing the claims created by the user, and respectively generating a claim text based on different sentences for each claim item according to different levels of the claim item, and clearing the reference relation among the claim items;

generating the invention content and the fixed format text of the specific implementation mode of the specification according to the input content of the user and the claims;

generating corresponding figure description texts for all figures uploaded by a user, and listing characteristic points corresponding to all the figures in the drawings to generate description figures;

the background art, the summary of the invention, the detailed description, and the drawings of the specification are edited and saved.

9. A patent document generation system, the system comprising: a processor and a memory;

the memory is to store one or more program instructions;

the processor, configured to execute one or more program instructions to perform the method of any of claims 1-4.

10. A computer storage medium containing one or more program instructions for execution by a patent document generation system to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 4.

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