pat-clas-ui

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Patent Classification Schemes - User Interface

Introduction

The web page index.html provides a user interface to the JSON web services provided by pat-clas-service.

It requires the jQuery-ui plugin "Fancytree" in the dir fancytree/ (under same dir as index.html). Installation of fancytree is one of the actions automated by data/download.sh; or jquery.fancytree-2.0.0-4.zip can be manually downloaded from: http://plugins.jquery.com/fancytree/.

Description

The UI consists of the following sections:

Schema Selection

A patent classification schema is selected using one of the CPC, IPC or USPC Radio buttons. A link to the official browser for the selected schema is provided. There are unfortunately many cases where our input data quality is lower than that of the official browser and this is most apparent with the USPC. In most cases the errors are readily apparent (e.g. 1123 US subclasses have no parent specified, so they are shown at the top of the hierarchy; or invalid references to other classes causing a broken link). In such cases the interested user is encouraged to consult the official browser.

Selection Action

Select Context to update the Context section whenever a classification symbol is clicked, or Explore to update the Explore section.

Search

Results for the full-text query are displayed including snippets of matching text, limited to the top 50 hits. Clicking on a classification symbol displays it in either the Context or Explore sections. The query syntax is described at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_8_1/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#package_description and the fields available for use in queries are:

CPC

Symbol, Level, **ClassTitle**, **NotesAndWarnings**, ClassTitleUnstemmed, NotesAndWarningsUnstemmed;

IPC

Symbol, Level, Kind, **TextBody**, TextBodyUnstemmed;

USPC

Symbol, **ClassTitle**, **SubClassTitle**, **SubClassDescription**, **Text** (all text not included in the previous fields), ClassTitleUnstemmed, SubClassTitleUnstemmed, SubClassDescriptionUnstemmed, TextUnstemmed;

The fields shown in bold:

• are searched by default when the query does not specify any fields; and
• have stemming applied (a search for activated will match activating and vice-versa).

Note: If the Stemming checkbox is set not ticked then the corresponding Unstemmed fields are searched by default, providing unstemmed search.

Context

The selected symbol is shown along with all its ancestors, allowing the hierarchical text to be read in its proper context. References to symbols are shown as links which re-populate either the Context or Explore section:

CPC

links to other CPC symbols are blue, links to IPC symbols are red. Selecting an IPC link switches the schema in the Schema Selection section.

IPC

links to IPC symbols are blue

USPC

links to fully specified symbols are blue, links specifying the just the subclass (class given by context) are green, unless a range is referred to, in which case the starting subclass is green and the ending subclass is red

Explore

Initially the specified symbol and all its ancestors are shown (as in the Context section - i.e. each node is shown with only a single child). However, clicking on any node causes all of its children to be displayed, allowing the full tree to be explored. Clicking on a symbol link in the tree re-populates either the Context or Explore section. The tree omits the CPC NotesAndWarnings and USPC Text fields in order to keep the size of the displayed text manageable. Use the Context section to view this information. The tree includes these fields:

CPC

Symbol, Level, ClassTitle (not NotesAndWarnings)

IPC

Symbol, Level, Kind, TextBody

USPC

Symbol, ClassTitle, SubClassTitle, SubClassDescription (not Text)