Guide to STN Patent Databases – Basic Version - Paton - TU Ilmenau

28.3 The SDI command
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entered you are prompted for all required parameters. The intended database must be open and there must be a
search result or search query, i.e. an L number. This search query must not include any of the commands SELECT,
ANALYZE, TRANSFER, FSORT, FSEARCH, or TRANSFER.
=> FILE INPADOCDB
=> SDI
ENTER QUERY L# FOR SDI REQUEST OR (END):L1
ENTER UPDATE FIELD CODE (UP) OR ?:UP
ENTER SDI REQUEST NAME, (AA035/S), OR END:INLINE/S
ENTER COST CENTER (NONE) OR NONE:.
ENTER TITLE (NONE):INLINE SKATES
ENTER METHOD OF DELIVERY (EMAIL), OFFLINE, or ONLINE:.
ENTER EMAIL ID (1116K):ELKE.THOMAE@TU-ILMENAU.DE.INTERNET
ELKE.THOMAE@TU-ILMENAU.DE.INTERNET
RECEIVE DELIVERY NOTIFICATION? (Y)/N:Y
ELIMINATE PREVIOUSLY SEEN ANSWERS WITH EACH SDI RUN? Y/(N):Y
ENTER PRINT FORMAT (BIB.M) OR ?:ALL.M
HIGHLIGHT HIT TERMS? (Y)/N:Y
ARCHIVE ANSWERS? Y/(N):N
REDISTRIBUTE ANSWERS? Y/(N):N
ENTER MAXIMUM NUMBER OF HITS TO BE PRINTED PER RUN (100):100
SORT SDI ANSWER SET (N)/Y?:N
SEND SDI WITH NO ANSWERS? (Y)/N:N
ENTER SDI RUN FREQUENCY - (WEEKLY), MONTHLY, OR ?:MONTHLY
ENTER SDI EXPIRATION DATE 'YYYYMMDD' OR (NONE):NONE
QUERY L1 HAS BEEN SAVED AS SDI REQUEST 'INLINE/S'
Note: To be able to set up a SDI you need a STNMAIL ID. You can get help with the following commands:
=> HELP SET MAILID
=> HELP MAIL
=> HELP READ
=> HELP SEND
28.3.1 Options to customize a SDI run
Automatic numbering
Delivery of search results: on-line, off-line, STN mail, Internet e-mail, fax
Email, with suffix ".internet": documents (preferably without patent images) will be transferred in the
email message. Note: Your mailbox should offer sufficient space.
mailbox recommended for patent monitoring
If you wish to use a free or reduced format in an SDI search in order to select documents to be
displayed in a full format choose ONLINE as Method of Delivery. The answer set will be saved in the
system. To display the documents use the free or reduced format first to select the wanted documents
and display the selected documents in the desired format as the second step.
Hit-term highlighting in the search results
Elimination of already known answers from an earlier SDI run
In patent databases the documents can be updated when new information arrives. When monitoring a subject
field it is often better to eliminate already known answers, otherwise the documents will be delivered again with
every change (legal status, patent family, etc.). When monitoring a particular legal status or patent family this
update is what is wanted and must not be eliminated.
Note: The old results will be kept for one year only, i.e. if an update occurs later than one year after the document
was found for the first time it will be delivered again.
Sorting the answers