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An Extraction Method of Bibliographic Information from the US Patents: Using an HTML Parsing Technique

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2010, 27(2), pp.7~20
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2010.27.2.007
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : April 16, 2010
  • Accepted : June 13, 2010
  • Published : June 30, 2010

Han, Yoo-Jin 1 Seung-Woo Oh 2

1숙명여자대학교
2Seoul National University

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to provide a method of extracting the most recent information on US patent documents. An HTML paring technique that can directly connect to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Web page is adopted. After obtaining a list of 50 documents through a keyword searching method, this study suggested an algorithm, using HTML parsing techniques, which can extract a patent number, an applicant, and the US patent class information. The study also revealed an algorithm by which we can extract both patents and subsequent patents using their closely connected relationship, that is a very distinctive characteristic of US patent documents. Although the proposed method has several limitations, it can supplement existing databases effectively in terms of timeliness and comprehensiveness.

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