User experience, teach you how to write patents

Recently many colleagues around asked me how to write a patent, just take this opportunity to share some of my experience in writing patents, pure talk, I hope to solve the user experience in the writing of some of the patent problems.

In the eyes of ordinary people, patent application is very mysterious, because each patented technology needs to have very rich professional knowledge as the foundation, and patent application cycle long, strict scrutiny, which also led to a lot of others. We need to know that patents are not just "invention patents", also includes "experience patent", and user experience designers have the latest relevant field of vision, also has a rich imagination, but also has the right good and bad judgment, these are to write "experience patent" unique advantages, then the following from two patent cases, Take a look at some of my experiences with patent writing. I invent a patent, if there are similarities is a coincidence.

Point out patent points from problem points

Turn over the phone album, occasionally see a friend of the photos, found a long time no contact with him, so switch to the phone address book, find a friend's number, click Dialing, give him a greeting phone call. This is our daily use of mobile phones often encounter the scene, imagine seeing a friend's photos, why not directly in the photo interface to call friends?

We now use smart devices, such as mobile phones, can be in contact information to fill in the contact's birthday, when the contact's birthday, our phone will remind you that today is his birthday. This is also the scene that we often encounter, imagine in the birthday reminder interface, why not directly to friends to choose gifts?

You can see that the above two scenes are often encountered in the scene, usually in the process of using these actions as a natural normal process, so we do not find this one of the "problem", that we did not form a "patent consciousness." In life, every find a problem point, think about there is no optimization program. In the work, each output a plan to think about my plan which point can apply for a patent. So the patent point is right beside you.

From the patent point to the solution

How to solve a phone call to a friend directly in the photo interface? We know that the current face recognition technology has been an existing technology, using the analysis and comparison of human face visual characteristics of the identification technology. At the same time we know that when you save a contact person, you can set the photo of each other as a picture. Then, after using face recognition to identify this person, relate to the avatar of an existing contact in my local address book. Is the face recognition technology will be contact person a head of several feature points recorded, and scan the local album all have a feature of the photos, the photos with a data link, so in view of the album see a photo, you can directly initiate calls, text messages and so on contact.

How to solve in the birthday reminder interface, directly to friends to choose gifts? When birthday reminders occur, in the Birthday reminder interface, add a Taobao, Xun, Jingdong and so on the Internet store entrance. At the same time can record personal preferences or once purchased gift records, into the network mall before the push to the user, in the smart Device to save contact information can be preset contact address, after shopping finished, directly select has preset a good friend address, it can be.

The solution can be to achieve the same goal with different implementation scenarios, or the same implementation to achieve different goals. You can see that all two of these solutions are existing technologies that have been used to address and enhance the user experience in the process of using these existing technologies.

Finding breakthroughs in existing patents

With your own solution, the next step will be to find out if someone has already applied for a patent. There's already a patent for the solution. Do not lose heart, from the existing patent scheme to find feasible technical solutions, and reasonable to avoid the same point, on the basis of further innovation, so that the same patent has been in fact can serve you. Other people use this method, then I change a method, more innovative than his method, simpler, anyway is to achieve the same goal. Hush ... Actually nothing to see people write patents, but also found their own patent point of the "Shortcut" Oh.

Application

Write Patent disclosure Book, find patent agency to write genteel patent agent book, submitted to the National Patent Office audit and so on, because too professional, I am not a professional body of professionals, in fact, many companies have ready-made patent application process, take the Tencent company, download a ready-made Patent disclosure template, their own patent scheme to fill in , OA to submit, fix! After the process you do not worry about, as long as the review through, to the corresponding time node, to take the corresponding patent bonus is good.

What details affect the success rate of a patent application

Avoid imagining

User experience designers have a wealth of imagination, but we apply for the patent must be feasible to achieve the program, in the existing implementation of the scheme, the search for a patent at home and abroad, can be based on the patented technology to clarify their own plan is feasible, but also reasonable to avoid the same point.

Be creative.

Novelty is a very important factor in the success of a patent application, we need to know whether the patent or product to be applied has been published or disclosed in the domestic and foreign publications, if it is the same implementation plan, unless the program solves the problem that other people do not solve, or bring about great convenience.

Seize the opportunity to apply

The user experience person is in the product or the function has not appeared the first contact group of people, and has the newest related domain vision, therefore maintains "the patent consciousness" is very important. Invention and utility model patent protection is a technical scheme, the design patent protection is the appearance of the product, so as long as the technical program can be achieved, does not require the formation of specific products, so in the production of technical solutions, products did not enter the market or the majority of people contact the early patent application.

Patent to the personal knowledge, influence, economic interests and so on the promotion and certainly naturally needless to say, bring the benefits to the enterprise is huge. It can be said that the patent itself is pioneering and innovative, others used is illegal infringement. In today's innovation-themed Internet environment, patents are the foundation of innovation. The user experience person maintains "the patent consciousness", uses the patent as the weapon, protects oneself protects the enterprise.

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