Report:Esp@cenet/Search Interface/The Search Forms/SmartSearch
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SmartSearch
In October 2008, esp@cenet introduced a new search feature, called SmartSearch. The purpose of this feature is to allow users to enter more than one type of search parameter into a single search box. With SmartSearch, users can enter a publication year, country code, and inventor name into a single text box, and the search engine will automatically query the correct data field for each parameter. The example presented on the esp@cenet website is the search string "Siemens EP 2007," which would represent an assignee, country code, and publication year of interest to the searcher.
The figure below shows the SmartSearch field in October 2008, directly after its introduction when the service was in beta mode.
The results of a SmartSearch query are presented in esp@cenet's normal hit list format. However, at the top of the page, esp@cenet will display the internal field qualifiers that were applied to the query terms, so that users can review the way the terms were interpreted by esp@cenet's search engine. In the figure below, the query "Jonas US 2005" was interpreted as "Jonas" as an inventor/applicant (ia=), "US" as a patent number code (num=), and "2005" as a publication date (pd=). For a complete list of fields that can be searched in the SmartSearch interface, see the Searchable Datafields section of this article.
The resulting first hit shown above was published in 2005, and it does have an inventor with the name Jonas. Although the representative document is an AU document, a closer examination of the esp@cenet family shows that there is a US family member, so the hit does apparently match all of the search criteria.
Note that because esp@cenet already contains a combined inventor/applicant search feature (the "persons or organizations" field in the Quick Search form), the search engine does not need to make a distinction between which names are applicants and which are inventors - it will search names in both fields.
Formatting Queries for SmartSearch
The SmartSearch form supports a number of search functions that are not available through the other esp@cenet search forms. For more information on how to format specific queries for use in the SmartSearch interface, see the Searchable Datafields and Boolean and Proximity Operators sections of this article.
