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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:
Jul. 16, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Darin Mcbeath, Mason, OH (US);

Stephan Stipdonk, Leiden, NL;

M'hamed El Aisati, Amsterdam, NL;

Robbertjan Kalff, Amsterdam, NL;

Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Amsterdam, NL;

Inventors:

Darin McBeath, Mason, OH (US);

Stephan Stipdonk, Leiden, NL;

M'Hamed El Aisati, Amsterdam, NL;

Robbertjan Kalff, Amsterdam, NL;

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Amsterdam, NL;

Assignee:

Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer system for searching databases and displaying search results, comprising databases storing information regarding publications and authors comprising author, title, date of publication, cited references, and citing references data; and Internet servers in communication with those databases; wherein at least one of those Internet servers is in communication with and operable to transmit data to a Web browser resident on a user's computer, and wherein the data is sufficient to enable the browser to display a citation overview page comprising: (a) a list of one or more titles of publications or names of authors, and (b) one or more displayed numerals representing how many publications in one or more specified categories cite to each of the publications, or, for author names, how many publications in one or more specified categories cite to publications on which those names are listed as authors.


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