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Technology Packages in IPlytics

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Overview

Declared vs. Undeclared SEPs 

What a Technology Package Contains

How Technology Packages Are Built

The Undeclared Patent Landscape, Explained

Available Technology Packages 

Why Technology Packages Matter

How To Request Access

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What This Article Covers

This article explains:

  • The difference between declared and undeclared SEPs, and why both are needed for a complete analysis
  • What a technology package contains
  • How technology packages are built — the eight-step process combining ML classifiers, LLMs, and analyst review
  • What the "undeclared patent landscape" means in practice, and how it relates to the package you access in the platform
  • Which technology standards are available across Video, Audio, Cellular, Wi-Fi, Wireless Charging, and Cellular IoT

  • Why technology packages matter for IPlytics users — practical use cases from licensing to portfolio benchmarking

     

Overview

A technology package in IPlytics (also called a feature package) is an expertly curated collection of patents covering a specific technology standard — for example, Wi-Fi 6, 5G, or HEVC video compression. It combines declared SEPs (patents formally notified to a standards body) with undeclared SEPs (likely/predicted essential patents identified by machine learning and confirmed by patent experts), giving a complete picture of who holds relevant patents in a given technology area.

Rather than constructing a patent search from scratch, users of the IPlytics platform can access these packages directly to immediately explore which companies hold relevant patents, how many patents exist in the landscape, and which may be essential to a given standard.

 

Declared vs. Undeclared SEPs

To understand technology packages, it helps to understand Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).

When a standards development organization (SDO) such as ETSI, IEEE, ITU-T, or the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) publishes a technical standard, companies that own patents believed to be essential to implementing that standard are generally expected to declare those patents to the relevant body. These are known as declared SEPs.

However, not every patent that is technically essential to a standard is formally declared. Some patents are overlooked, acquired after the declaration process, or simply never submitted by their owner. These are commonly referred to as undeclared, predicted, or candidate SEPs.

The IPlytics platform identifies undeclared SEPs using machine-learning models that analyse patent content against standards documents, surfacing patents that may be essential even though they were never formally declared.

Both layers matter for serious analysis. Focusing only on declared SEPs gives an incomplete (and potentially misleading) view of patent ownership, licensing exposure, and competitive positioning. For this reason, technology packages are designed to incorporate both declared and undeclared datasets where available, supporting more accurate licensing analysis, portfolio benchmarking, royalty modelling, litigation assessment, and strategic decision-making.

 

What a Technology Package Contains

A technology package combines two layers of patent coverage for a given standard:

  • Declared SEPs — patents formally notified to a standards body by their owners as potentially essential to the standard.
  • Undeclared (predicted) SEPs — patents identified by IPlytics' machine learning and LLM-based methodology as likely essential, even though they have not been formally declared.

The combination of both layers is what makes a technology package comprehensive. Each package is:

  • Expert-built, using standards-specific knowledge and datasets
  • Machine-learning verified, using IPlytics' classification models
  • Analyst-reviewed, to ensure quality and relevance

As a result, users can begin analysing a technology landscape immediately, without needing specialist knowledge of standards documents, declaration databases, or patent search methodologies.

 

How Technology Packages Are Built

Each technology package is produced through a structured, end-to-end process combining machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and human expert review. This process generates what IPlytics calls the undeclared patent landscape (the predicted-SEP layer) which is then combined with declared SEPs to form the complete package.

  1. Define the scope — The target standard is analysed to extract its key technical features and corresponding keywords, forming the basis of what the package should and should not include.
  2. Build a training set — A set of known relevant patents (positive examples) is assembled, typically from declared SEPs, litigation outcomes, or other public sources, alongside a set of clearly irrelevant patents (negative examples). Together these train the classifier.
  3. Train the AI classifier — IPlytics' supervised machine learning algorithm (powered by PatentSight+ Classification) learns to distinguish relevant from irrelevant patents across the global patent database, assigning each patent a relevance score.
  4. LLM-based relevance ranking and feature review — LLMs rank candidate patents by relevance using title, abstract, and claims, and verify that all key technical features of the standard are represented in the training set.
  5. Manual verification by patent analysts — Expert analysts review the classifier output, remove noise (false positives), confirm coverage across key assignees and technology classifications, and benchmark against known declared SEP pools.
  6. Recall verification and refinement — The landscape is assessed for recall (whether important patents are missing). Low-confidence results are reviewed and the classifier refined if recall rates aren't acceptable.
  7. Feature tagging — Each patent family is tagged with specific standard features (e.g., device vs. controller, different standard generations). These tags become filters in the IPlytics platform, enabling precise segmentation for licensing and outreach.
  8. Customer feedback and final validation — Patent portfolios from representative customers are checked against the landscape. Any gaps, false positives, or mis-tags are corrected before the package is finalised and published on the platform.

 

The Undeclared Patent Landscape, Explained

The undeclared patent landscape is the output of the classifier process described above; the predicted-SEP layer of a technology package. It represents the set of patents identified through IPlytics' classification methodology as likely essential to a standard, even though they have not been formally declared to a standards body.

When you access a technology package in IPlytics, you're viewing a pre-built, expert-curated landscape that already combines:

  • Declared SEPs from standards development organizations
  • Undeclared patents identified through IPlytics' classification methodology
  • Analyst validation and quality review

You don't need to run the classifier yourself as that work is already done, and the results are ready for immediate use.

For technology areas not yet covered by a pre-built package, a custom classification project can be used to identify and validate undeclared patents for the target standard, following the same eight-step process described above.

 

Available Technology Packages

IPlytics currently provides pre-built technology packages for the following standards:

Technology Area Standards Covered
Video AVC, HEVC, VVC, AV1, VP9
Audio AAC, OPUS, MPEG-H 3D
Cellular 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 4, 5, 6, 7
Wireless Charging Qi1, Qi2
Cellular IoT NB-IoT, LTE-M, LTE-Cat 1, V2X, EVS, IVAS

Each of these areas has a dedicated knowledge base article describing the specific technology, the standards it encompasses, and what the IPlytics package contains. See Related Articles below.

 

Why Technology Packages Matter

Without a technology package, a user would need to define search queries, identify training data, run classifiers, and verify results which is a process that typically takes weeks and requires deep domain expertise. Technology packages remove that barrier so users can move straight into analysis.

With a technology package, users can:

  • Start immediately — access a ready-to-use patent landscape with no setup required.
  • Trust the coverage — packages are built using a verified, multi-stage methodology with human analyst oversight and customer feedback loops.
  • Gain comprehensive coverage — view declared SEPs alongside undeclared patents in a single, unified view, so no relevant patents are missed.
  • Segment precisely — use feature tags to filter by standard generation, implementation type, and other dimensions relevant to licensing or litigation.
  • Support a range of use cases, including:
    • Licensing analysis — evaluating patent ownership and identifying potential licensors or licensees
    • Portfolio benchmarking — comparing portfolio strength and size across companies
    • Royalty modelling — assessing potential royalty exposure within a technology ecosystem
    • Standard compliance assessment — understanding the patent landscape tied to implementing a standard
    • Partner and target identification — identifying licensing partners, acquisition targets, or strategic collaborators
    • Competitive intelligence — monitoring competitor investment and innovation within a technology area

 

How To Request Access

Please note that technology packages are not included in every standard platform subscription and must be confirmed separately. To request access, contact your IPlytics account manager or reach out to the IPlytics team here. Your account manager will confirm eligibility and arrange access.

 

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