Report:FreePatentsOnline/Viewing Results/Viewing Full Text
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Viewing Full Text
Selecting a record from the hit list brings up the full text view, which includes most of the information listed on the patent. All fields including primary class, inventors, abstract, claims, and description/specification among many others are present on a single page, with patent drawings being the only notable absence (although in rare cases, a representative image is available).
FreePatentsOnline automatically applies multi-color highlighting to the full text view, creating a distinct color for each term in the search query with no apparent limit of distinct colors. User-customized highlighting is not available. There are also no other highlighting assists, such as the ability to quickly navigate to the next highlighted term, or the ability to see a visual map of the highlights for the entire document.
Records can be added directly from the full text viewing page into a new or pre-existing portfolio, if the user is registered and logged in.
Links are present on the full text viewing page for:
- viewing the PDF image of the record
- creating a search query based on forward references
- exporting citations
- creating a search query based on primary classification
- viewing a backwards citation
- moving to the next or previous patent (linear reference viewing)
- viewing the PDF image of the record
Editor's Note:The full text view in FreePatentsOnline is simple and fast. Displaying all of the full text information on one page makes browsing and searching easy for the user. Although there are no quick links to get to the description or claims section for example, users can easily find these sections since they are clearly labeled and fully searchable with a control+f search in browser.
Additionally, although not user controllable, highlighting makes finding interesting sections of the text much easier. Users may be disappointed by the lack of customization to group highlighted terms of their choosing or on the fly, but multi-colored highlighting puts FreePatentsOnline ahead of competitors Google Patents and Patent Lens, and is a nice touch.
As in the hit list, patent drawings are not available. The lack of this feature is a big hindrance to users searching in the mechanical arts, as they often rely on patent drawings to quickly assess the relevance and content of a patent.
