Custom clustered report feature. Rename and customise technology clusters.
This report allows you to upload a list of patent numbers and tag to your own technology cluster name, and portfolio/organisation name. Reasons for doing this include:
- It may be that you have an internal naming system for patents within your portfolio.
- You may wish to rename the technology clusters in your LexisNexis® Classification report
- It may be that you want to rename the organisations, or combine organisations from an existing Classification report.
What are technology clusters?
A Classification technology cluster is a grouping of patent families relating to the same technical area. Technology clusters are based on 'features' or meta-data points, including: CPC codes, citations, title and abstract.
How are technology cluster names determined?
Cluster names are machine generated, by reference to the title and abstract. The Clusters are given a name that most closely describes all patent families in the Cluster using text summarisation, and natural language processing (NLP) techniques.
How to customise the names of the technology clusters
Use the Custom Clustered report if you would like to customise the names of the technology clusters. This may be that you have an internal naming system for patents within your portfolio, or you may want to generate a report with customised cluster names.
How to generate the Custom Clustered Report
1. Open a spreadsheet with the family IDs in one column, the custom portfolio name in the second (could correspond with the owning organisation for example) and the corresponding technology name in another. This information can be downloaded from an existing report from the patent family list view.
2. Rename the families as you see fit i.e. the technology names or the custom portfolio name i.e owner.
3. Copy all of the data onto the clipboard.
4. Click 'Upload' from the Custom Clustered Report tile on the home page (Please contact support@lexisnexisip.com for access)
5. Paste the list of family IDs, portfolio name and technology name into the text box.
6. Click 'Upload' and name your report. Here is an example chart illustrating the result of being able to rename the the portfolios (organisations) or the technologies within your report:
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