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What do the attributes within a node represent and how to modify them
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The Node Panel is shown to the left of the Graph Editor and the Section Builder interfaces and to the right of the Outline panel in Patentext. The Node Panel displays details of the active item in the interface, which is based on a selected node in the Graph Editor or in the Outline panel and allows the user to edit these details. By receiving user input editing the Invention Graph via the Node Panel, Patentext enables you to ensure the accuracy of all context passed into your prompts.
The contents of the Node Panel are determined by the type of the item selected. The node panel can also display information about items that are not nodes in the graph such as figures, claims, and application parts. This allows the node panel to work in tandem with the Section Builder to aid the user in creating prompts.
Generally, the Node Panel categorizes item details under various tabs indicated at the topic of the panel under the title of the selected item. The specific tabs shown also vary depending on the type of the selected item.
Any item that is automatically generated or extracted from disclosure materials during our abstraction process (including any Component Nodes, Step Nodes, Product Nodes, Figure, or Claim) will be filled in with details based on the disclosure. This minimizes the amount of work you have to do to ensure the context is complete and prevents information from being lost during the abstraction process.
When a Component Node is selected, the node panel displays the “Overview,” “Attributes,” and “Connections” tabs.
The Overview Tab provides the most basic information about the Component Node including its name, its shorthand (soon to be Aliases to accommodate multiple nominal alternatives), and its description.
The overview panel includes the Inventive Relevance Slider, which indicates how relevant the Component is to the overall invention. The Inventive Relevance slider allows our model to produce output that’s commensurate to the importance of each node. This is a process that all patent drafters go through as they are writing that may not always be apparent in an outline, set of claims, or set of figures. How much should I write about this? How many examples should I provide? How detailed should the description of this component be? These are questions that are constantly being asked and answered as we draft. The Inventive Relevance Slider allows you to communicate the importance of each node to the invention as a whole by allowing you to tune this node parameter directly.
Additionally, most fields within the node panel can be automatically generated or regenerated using the button on the upper right corner of the text field, as shown below. Note that the generate action utilizes the current state of the graph as context, so it can be useful for updating descriptions after changes to the structure of the Invention Graph, such as a reparenting operation, node addition, or node deletion.
Within the Attributes Tab is an additional set of subtabs organizing the attributes of the Component Node. Component Nodes have attributes including Features, Functions, and Variants that provide additional details related to each Component Node.
Features ****are physical characteristics of the Components that require additional description, but do not warrant a subcomponent in and of themselves. Currently, we are noticing some redundancy in automatically generated Invention Graphs between features and subcomponents. However, we are working to resolve this issue.
You can easily add features that were not detected in the disclosure materials by clicking on the “Add New Feature” button. After selecting this button, you will have the choice of either generating the feature description from a name that you provide or adding the feature manually. This same flow applies for adding other attributes to the Component Node and to other node types.
