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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John P. Bufe, III, Somerville, MA (US);

Jared M. D. Smythe, Fuquay Varina, NC (US);

Eric M. Woods, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/184 (2013.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/90332 (2019.01);
Abstract

Software that uses machine-logic based algorithms to assess the value of idea descriptions by performing the following operations: (i) receiving an idea description pertaining to an idea; (ii) generating a density score for the idea, wherein the density score is based, at least in part, on one or more publication date densities of a set of works related to the idea description; (iii) generating a novelty score for the idea, wherein the novelty score is based, at least in part, on a comparison of the idea description to the set of works related to the idea description using natural language processing; and (iv) assessing the value of the idea based, at least in part, on the generated density score and the generated novelty score.


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