Patent analytics based on feature vector space model: A case of IoT

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The number of approved patents worldwide increases rapidly each year, which requires new patent analytics to efficiently mine the valuable information attached to these patents. The vector space model (VSM) represents documents as high-dimensional vectors, where each dimension corresponds to a unique term. While originally proposed for information retrieval systems, VSM has also seen wide applications in patent analytics and is used as a fundamental tool to map patent documents to structured data. However, the VSM method suffers from several limitations when applied to patent analysis tasks, such as loss of sentence-level semantics and curse-of-dimensionality problems. In order to address the above limitations, we propose patent analytics based on feature VSM (FVSM), where the FVSM is constructed by mapping patent documents to feature the vectors extracted by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The applications of FVSM for three typical patent analysis tasks, i.e., patents similarity comparison, patent clustering, and patent map generation, are discussed. A case study using patents related to the Internet of Things (IoT) technology is illustrated to demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of FVSM. The proposed FVSM can be adopted by other patent analysis studies to replace VSM, based on which various big data learning tasks can be performed.

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Lei, L., Qi, J., & Zheng, K. (2019). Patent analytics based on feature vector space model: A case of IoT. IEEE Access, 7, 45705–45715. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2909123

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