Title: Unveiling the technology: a case study for cellular mobile phones

Authors: Ranjeet Kumar; R.C. Tripathi; M.D. Tiwari

Addresses: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, Uttar Pradesh-211012, India. ' Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, Uttar Pradesh-211012, India. ' Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Deoghat Jhalwa, Uttar Pradesh-211012, India

Abstract: Patents are the best resource for tracking of the latest advancements in technology. They are tracked regularly especially by the competitive companies, R&D labs and individuals. Based on various parameters of concern including technology trends, references and the usage of the technologies, the relevant patents are retrieved to unveil the technology of a product (Ridley, 2002). In the present work, as a test case parsing the technical specifications of the given mobile device, a comprehensive search technique of the patent databases has been established by applying ranking methods based on |Referenced By| for each patent. These are then re-ordered for identifying the most likely patents along with their URL links involved in the current technology. This has been exemplified using a typical case of a mobile device, i.e., |cell phone|. The results obtained cover all the software and hardware technologies involved in making of a new device as distinct from its older versions to track the latest technological advancements implemented in a product of one|s interest.

Keywords: device specifications; patents; information retrieval; cellular mobiles; technology mapping; intellectual property rights; IPR; mobile phones; cell phones; product technology; mobile devices; patent databases; ranking methods.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPM.2011.043871

International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2011 Vol.4 No.4, pp.211 - 219

Received: 04 May 2010
Accepted: 03 Aug 2011
Published online: 31 Oct 2014 *

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