<s>
Patent	B-Application
visualisation	I-Application
is	O
an	O
application	O
of	O
information	B-Application
visualisation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Patent	B-Application
visualisation	I-Application
,	O
like	O
patent	O
mapping	O
,	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
quickly	O
view	O
a	O
patent	O
portfolio	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Software	O
dedicated	O
to	O
patent	B-Application
visualisation	I-Application
began	O
to	O
appear	O
in	O
2000	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
Aureka	O
from	O
Aurigin	O
(	O
now	O
owned	O
by	O
Thomson	O
Reuters	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
patent	O
and	O
portfolio	O
analytics	O
platforms	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
,	O
PatSnap	O
,	O
,	O
Relecura	O
,	O
and	O
Patent	O
iNSIGHT	O
Pro	O
,	O
offer	O
options	O
to	O
visualise	O
specific	O
data	O
within	O
patent	O
documents	O
by	O
creating	O
topic	B-Application
maps	I-Application
,	O
priority	O
maps	O
,	O
IP	O
Landscape	O
reports	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Patents	O
contain	O
structured	O
data	O
(	O
like	O
publication	O
numbers	O
)	O
and	O
unstructured	B-Application
text	I-Application
(	O
like	O
title	O
,	O
abstract	O
,	O
claims	O
and	O
visual	O
info	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Structured	O
data	O
are	O
processed	O
by	O
data-mining	B-Application
and	O
unstructured	B-Application
data	I-Application
are	O
processed	O
with	O
text-mining	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
step	O
in	O
processing	O
structured	O
information	O
is	O
data-mining	B-Application
,	O
which	O
emerged	O
in	O
the	O
late	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
involves	O
statistics	O
,	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
,	O
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Patent	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
extracts	O
information	O
from	O
the	O
structured	O
data	O
of	O
the	O
patent	O
document	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
allows	O
study	O
of	O
filing	O
patterns	O
of	O
competitors	O
and	O
locates	O
main	O
patent	O
filers	O
within	O
a	O
specific	O
area	O
of	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	B-Algorithm
mining	I-Algorithm
is	O
used	O
to	O
search	O
through	O
unstructured	B-Application
text	I-Application
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text	B-Algorithm
mining	I-Algorithm
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
statistical	O
analysis	O
of	O
word	O
recurrence	O
in	O
a	O
corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Four	O
text	O
parts	O
can	O
be	O
processed	O
with	O
text-mining	B-Algorithm
:	O
</s>
<s>
Text-mining	B-Algorithm
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
narrow	O
a	O
search	O
or	O
quickly	O
evaluate	O
a	O
patent	O
corpus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text-mining	B-Algorithm
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
create	O
internal	O
taxonomies	O
specific	O
to	O
a	O
corpus	O
for	O
possible	O
mapping	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
patents	O
contain	O
structured	O
and	O
unstructured	B-Application
information	I-Application
,	O
visualisations	O
fall	O
in	O
two	O
categories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Structured	O
data	O
can	O
be	O
rendered	O
with	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
in	O
macrothematic	O
maps	O
and	O
statistical	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unstructured	B-Application
information	I-Application
can	O
be	O
shown	O
in	O
like	O
clouds	O
,	O
cluster	O
maps	O
and	O
2D	O
keyword	O
maps	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mapping	O
visualisations	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
both	O
text-mining	B-Algorithm
and	O
data-mining	B-Application
results	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
What	O
can	O
patent	B-Application
visualisation	I-Application
highlight	O
:	O
</s>
