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

37 Multi-file search example
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Guide to STN Patent Databases
These search examples demonstrate some strategies to perform online searches in multiple files.
37.1 Subject search Example 1
After a search in the Chemical Abstracts database we would like to retrieve the corresponding documents from the
World Patents Index, which will provide additional information. To group the documents by patent families FSORT
and D PFAM are used. How to use the Patent Family Manager of STN Express is demonstrated, too.
37.1.1 Search in Chemical Abstracts PLUS and DWPI
=> FIL HCAPLUS
FILE 'HCAPLUS' ENTERED AT
COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)
=> S FURNITURE(L)(POLISH? OR BRIGHTEN?) AND P/DT
L1 412 FURNITURE(L)(POLISH? OR BRIGHTEN?) AND P/DT
=> FIL WPINDEX HCAPLUS
FILE 'WPINDEX' ENTERED
COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 THOMSON REUTERS
FILE 'HCAPLUS' ENTERED
COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)
=> TRANSFER L1 1- PN APPS
L2 TRANSFER L1 1- PN APPS : 1366 TERMS
L3 689 L2
=> FSORT L3
SET SMARTSELECT ON
SET COMMAND COMPLETED
SET HIGHLIGHTING OFF
SET COMMAND COMPLETED
SEL L3 1- PN,APPS
L4 SEL L3 1- PN APPS : 1922 TERMS
'L4' DELETED
L4 689 FSO L3
Switch to DWPI and HCAPLUS. The order of the file names
governs the order in which the family members are going to be
arranged by the FSORT command later on.
Using TRANSFER, the patent, application, and priority numbers
from the records are searched in both databases.
FSORT groups the documents by patent families.
As a result, the sorted patent families are displayed.
Sometimes more than one record from each database is present
in a family.
214 Multi-record Families Answers 1-491
Family 1 Answers 1-2
Family 2 Answers 3-4
Family 3 Answers 5-6
Family 4 Answers 7-8
Family 5 Answers 9-10
Family 6 Answers 11-12
Family 7 Answers 13-15
...
Family 214 Answers 490-491