SBIR Phase II: Adaptable Invention Disclosure System

SBIR 第二阶段：适应性发明公开系统

• 批准号: 1738540
• 负责人: Eric Leininger
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: PatentDive
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Adaptable; Invention

This SBIR Phase II project continues previous development of an invention disclosure tool that allows users to draft a United States Patent and Trademark Office compliant patent applications by using an intuitive interface and game-based educational tools to draft patent applications. Inventors and small companies having no background in patent law and patent-application drafting strategies struggle with properly describing their inventions. Overcoming this lack of understanding on the part of the inventor requires a great deal of one-on-one educational training with a patent professional in order to draft a quality patent application. However, engaging a patent professional is costly and time consuming. This project expands the capacity of the invention disclosure software by allowing users to configure and customize the software for specific types of inventions and arts.Specifically, this project proposes a new customization tool for integration with the existing invention disclosure tool to allow for widespread adoption into varied technology arts. The customization tool comprises software modules that allow end users to identify and create narrative goals, design software interfaces by configuring display rules, design text output state configurations based on logical operators, design natural language output, design the natural language generated output that is desired for that product type and configure template text, token input, and grammar associations, and determine the position of natural language output into an overall document structure. This customization tool will allow for rapid, scalable distribution of the product to be driven by end users rather than through a traditional software development process, e.g., 1) researching, 2) market testing, and 3) designing and implementing each new version of a product for different technology arts.

这个SBIR第二阶段项目继续了先前发明披露工具的开发，该工具允许用户通过使用直观的界面和基于游戏的教育工具来起草符合美国专利和商标局的专利申请。没有专利法背景和专利申请起草策略的发明者和小公司很难恰当地描述他们的发明。要克服发明人的这种不理解，需要与专利专业人员进行大量一对一的教育培训，以便起草一份高质量的专利申请。然而，聘请专利专家既昂贵又耗时。本项目通过允许用户为特定类型的发明和艺术配置和定制软件，扩展了发明披露软件的能力。具体而言，本项目提出了一个新的定制工具，用于集成现有的发明披露工具，以允许广泛采用各种技术领域。定制工具包括允许最终用户识别和创建叙述目标、通过配置显示规则设计软件接口、基于逻辑运算符设计文本输出状态配置、设计自然语言输出、设计该产品类型所需的自然语言生成输出以及配置模板文本、标记输入和语法关联的软件模块。并确定自然语言输出到整体文档结构中的位置。这种定制工具将允许由最终用户驱动的产品的快速、可扩展的分发，而不是通过传统的软件开发过程，例如，1)研究，2)市场测试，以及3)为不同的技术艺术设计和实现产品的每个新版本。