CHANGES.rst

PatZilla CHANGES

Development

• [mw] Fix dependencies for Python 2 compatibility
• [mw] Update dependencies to resolve security warnings
• [ui] Update dependencies to resolve security warnings
• [ui] Fix dependencies to resolve build problems
• [ui] Update dependencies to satisfy yarn audit
• [mw] Improve sandbox setup
• [ui] Fix dependencies: Downgrade to jQuery 3.4.1
• [ui] EPO/OPS: Support CPCI classifications
• [ui] Fix dependencies: Upgrade Moment.js and Async
• [ci] Add CI/GHA configuration
• [ui] Update a few JavaScript dependencies
• [qa] Switch test framework from nose to pytest
• [qa] Improve Python test harness
• [mw] Fix getting PDF documents and drawings from USPTO. Thanks, @aghster!
• [qa] Add software test infrastructure for data acquisition subsystems
• [qa] Add tests covering the acquisition of USPTO PDF documents and drawings
• [mw] Refactor the bootloader subsystem
• [qa] Add tests for EPO OPS data source
• [ui] Fix depa.tech data source logo
• [ui] Improve loading behaviour for vendor data source logos
• [mw] EPO/OPS: Update list of full text authorities. Thanks, @epo and @aghster!
• [mw] Fix JSON Web Token adapter for generating shareable links
• [mw] Improve reading lists of document numbers from text files
• [mw] Fix acquisition of claims and description for DE and US documents
• [mw] Improve gracefulness when decoding document numbers
• [mw] Improve parameter validation in authentication handler
• [mw] Honour fulltext_enabled setting of data source
• [mw] Disable acquisition of PDF documents from DPMA/DEPATISconnect
• [mw] EPO/OPS: Unlock inquiry of image information for documents without kind code
• [mw] EPO/Espacenet: Repair access layer. Thanks, @aghster!
• [ui] EPO/Espacenet: Repair "external sources" links
• [mw] EPO/Espacenet: Acquire "abstract" text
• [mw] EPO/Espacenet: Make access layer production ready
• [mw] EPO/Espacenet: Acquire "abstract" text from OPS API
• [ui] Adjust JavaScript dependencies for bootbox
• [infra] Don't use designated port 9999 to avoid confusion
• [infra] Rework the Docker setup
• [doc] Various documentation updates across the board
• [doc] Fix building the documentation
• [mw] Fix logging. Thanks, @think-nice-things!
• [cli] Start using the Click command line parser
• [mw] Improve "minimal" application framework bootstrapping
• [mw] Add CLI interface for basic operations on EPO/OPS
• [mw] Fix access to DPMAregister due to upstream changes
• [mw] Add CLI interface for search operation on IFI CLAIMS
• [mw] Fix access to USPTO documents using USPTO PPUBS, PatFT and AppFT are deprecated
• [mw] Generalize image format conversion
• [mw] Update Beaker, openpyxl, Mako, and pyramid-mako
• [ui] Update loader-utils
• [mw] Switch from appdirs to platformdirs
• [mw] Update a few more dependencies across the board
• [ui] Fix build by upgrading to underscore-template-loader 1.2.0
• [mw] Fix access to DEPATISnet due to upstream changes
• [qa] Speed up testing using pytest-xdist
• [mw] Improve caching configuration for patzilla.access.dpma.dpmaregister
• [mw] Fix access to DPMA DEPATISnet

2019-11-01 0.169.3

• Fixes and improvements for building and installation procedure

2019-11-01 0.169.2

• [mw] Upgrade to python-epo-ops-client==3.1.1. Thanks, @gsong! https://meta.ip-tools.org/t/bibliographic-data-missing-from-ops-family-response/161

2019-09-19 0.169.1

• [mw] Improve API URI handling for upstream data source

• [mw] Fix ops_family_inpadoc service

• [ui] Fix close_checkbox function (#21). Thanks, Vasily!

• [ui] Update Backbone and Marionette to a bit newer version (#20). Thanks Andrii!

  • Backbone 1.0.0 -> 1.1.2
  • backbone.marionette 1.1.0 -> 1.8.8

  A little workaround with aliases.

2019-06-06 0.168.1

• [ui] Add missing tsconfig.json. Thanks, Andrii.
• [ui] Bump material-ui versions

2019-05-29 0.168.0

• [mw] Prevent wrong data format slipping through from data source
• [ui] Attempt to mitigate marcj/css-element-queries#268 by upgrading to most recent release
• [ui] Offer multiple languages when displaying fulltext content
• [ui] Honor vendor-based data source preference
• [ui] Optionally expand maximum share time to five years
• [ui] Fix preferred data source selector
• [ui] Improve multi-language fulltext display
• [ui] Introduce TypeScript and Material-UI
• [ui] Add fullscreen dialog based on Material-UI

2019-05-15 0.167.2

• [ui] Fix snackbar actionHandler

2019-05-15 0.167.1

• [ui] Tune minimum visibility duration of snackbar
• [ui] Filter dangling BasketEntry items. Thanks, Andreas.

2019-05-14 0.167.0

• [ui] Improve input string sanitation
• [ui] Project import/export
• [ui] Improve snackbar
• [ui] Improve project chooser layout

2019-05-13 0.166.2

• [ui] Improve "Fix export with non-ascii characters accidentally slipped into patent numbers"
• [mw] Fix per-vendor settings for OPS credentials

2019-05-13 0.166.1

• [mw] Fix missing dependency

2019-05-13 0.166.0

• [ui] Upgrade to jQuery 3.4.1
• [ui] Add "clean-webpack-plugin" to cleanup the assets folder before building
• [mw] Improve settings for having per-vendor OPS credentials
• [ui] More flexbox for header layout
• [ui] Improve comment editing usability

2019-05-08 0.165.0

• Fix broken "nasa-public-domain" demo link. Thanks, Andrii!
• Adjust DEPATISnet data source adapter to upstream changes. Thanks, Gaby!
• Fix export with non-ascii characters accidentally slipped into patent numbers. Thanks, Andreas!
• Improve styling capabilities
• Remove defunct upstream database
• Add patview to the list of accepted patentview subdomains

2019-03-09 0.164.1

• Fix/improve Makefile and inline doctests
• Fix DPMAregister data source

2019-03-05 0.164.0

• [doc] Update documentation
• [mw] Allow access to /ping endpoint
• [mw] Fix minor regression
• [mw] Fix tests
• [mw] Resolve issue when European publication server returns reference to WIPO as HTML response instead of PDF document
• [mw] Pad document numbers for granted patents to 8 digits with leading zeros when accessing USPTO for PDF documents
• [mw] Try USPTO servers before DPMA servers when accessing PDF documents
• [mw] Deduplicate results with "family member by priority" feature

2019-02-21 0.163.0

• [mw] Use EPO publication server for obtaining PDFs of EP publications (#12). Thanks, Felix!
• [mw] Use USPTO publication servers for obtaining PDFs of US documents
• [mw] Improve generic PDF data source
• [mw] Fix "Family member by priority" functionality

2019-02-14 0.162.2

• [ui] Fix opening keyword editor

2019-02-14 0.162.1

• [ui] Fix feature flag evaluation
• [ui] Tune snackbar position, padding and colors based on ambient

2019-02-13 0.162.0

• [ui] Gradually ramping up ES6
• [ui] Notify users by MDC Snackbar, ditch NotificationFx
• [ui] Compute effective full text data source by honoring its definition order. Thanks, Felix!
• [ui] Add Material Design Icons
• [ui] Improve MDC dependency chain
• [ui] Improve stack subsystem
• [env] Improve Docker setup. Thanks, Felix!
• [mw] Minor fix re. query expression parsing
• [env] Add notes about troubleshooting sandbox installation problems
• [env] Add basic Vagrantfile
• [ui] Adapt to renaming the font-awesome package dependency
• [mw] Switch to python-epo-ops-client for accessing OPS. Thanks Martin for reporting this glitch and thanks George for conceiving this fine Python package.
• [ui] Add link to New Espacenet, see #4. Thanks, Felix!
• [ui] Attempt to mitigate "TypeError: t is null" notifications from production
• [ui] Fix crawler dialog
• [ui] Fix export dialog
• [mw] Trim verboseness when not having DEPATISconnect enabled
• [mw] Fix and improve data export

2018-11-26 0.161.1

• [ui] Add missing get_unique_key method on GenericExchangeDocument placeholder items

2018-11-26 0.161.0

• [ui] Make IssueReporter work on dev and prod equally good
• [ui] Improve Stack subsystem mechanics
• [ui] Improve logging and debugging
• [ui] Add ApplicationProfile subsystem
• [ui] Improve Stack subsystem data model
• [ui] Improve jQuery3 compatibility
• [ui] Improve INID code labels, refactoring
• [ui] Add display flavour with verbose INID code labels
• [ui] Add a few Material Design Components
• [ui] Add Stack opener button

2018-11-23 0.160.0

• [ui] Bump wording
• [ui] Fix conditional menu item display
• [ui] Improve design and positioning of menu opener
• [ui] Refactor main application CSS
• [ui,mw] Refactor vendor-specific feature flags
• [ui] Redesign document header with CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid Layout
• [ui] Fix inline linking to application document with DOCDB number
• [ui] Fix hotkey event handling
• [ui] Link to CCD version 2.1.8
• [ui] Add action for expanding comment panels of all documents
• [ui] Introduce Stack subsystem

2018-11-20 0.159.0

• [ui] Fix comfort form zoom text width
• [ui] Fix z-index for sticky header
• [ui] Improve comfort form layout details
• [ui] Improve project and basket controls layout
• [ui] Improve pagination widget layout
• [ui] Enable menu in wide header again
• [ui] Improve query action buttons layout
• [ui] Fix wrapping of document action buttons
• [ui] Adjust user notification message box position for wide header
• [ui] Add custom data sources
• [ui] Improve theming for search action button
• [ui] Add stub for custom export variant

2018-11-16 0.158.0

• [ui] Improve responsiveness of query builder and its widgets

2018-11-15 0.157.0

• [ui] Add grid content variant

2018-11-14 0.156.1

• [ui] Fix header layout

2018-11-14 0.156.0

• [ui] Add wide header variant

2018-10-24 0.155.1

• [ui] Fix regression re. query-link propagation when following cited documents

2018-10-13 0.155.0

• [mw] Improve DEPAROM query expression syntax handling
• [ui] Simplify header layout by using CSS Flexbox

2018-10-12 0.154.0

• [ui] Fix occasional cropped display of drawings
• [ui] Prepare drawings loader for fetching new items when navigating to previous item
• [ui] Reorder comfort form fields again
• [ui] Nail Javascript module dependencies to exact versions
• [mw] Fix error reporting and logging issues
• [ui] Hide previous/next drawing navigation buttons when displaying a single drawing
• [ui] Prevent out of bounds navigation to the previous drawing if there's just one item in the collection

2018-10-08 0.153.0

• [mw] Don't run Ikofax expression through CQL parser
• [ui] Fix error propagation
• [ui] Signal search syntax in search history entry
• [mw] Allow Ikofax syntax from URLs, e.g. ?datasource=depatisnet&query=ikofax:EP666666%2Fpn
• [ui] Refactor syntax chooser data model
• [ui] Properly propagate Ikofax mode to Liveview mode
• [ui] Improve "Share this search" dialog
• [ui] Disable dummy exception catcher introduced accidentally when migration to jQuery3
• [ui] Fix rendering in quick access mode, e.g. /view/pn/EP0666666
• [ui] Improve usability of "Share this search" and "Fetch result numbers" in the context of search results
• [mw] Fix "List of publication numbers" with Ikofax searches
• [ui] Reset search modifiers when recalling a search from history
• [ui] Reset Ikofax mode when using comfort form again
• [ui] Fix inline "query-link" mechanics
• [ui] Improve dirty signalling for comfort form
• [ui,mw] Add fields "application date" and "priority date" to comfort form
• [ui] Improve querybuilder responsiveness
• [mw] Improve date parsing for query expression translator
• [ui] Better demo values for new comfort form fields "appdate" and "priodate"
• [ui] Search by kindcode through comfort form at DEPATISnet

2018-09-28 0.152.0

• Exclude .DS_Store files from the release tarball
• [mw] Fix Umlaut issues with DEPATISnet. Thanks, Martin!
• [mw] Strip DEPATISnet query expression before propagating to upstream. Thanks, Martin!
• [mw] Grok error messages from erroneous DEPATISnet queries
• [ui] Add new universal "start_search" method for kicking off a blank-slate search action
• [ui] Run boot-time search after activating basket model
• [ui] Limit query expression syntax chooser to DEPATISnet only
• [ui] Adjust field name chooser for Ikofax syntax
• [mw] Compute keywords from Ikofax expression (quick solution)

2018-09-26 0.151.0

• Add status endpoints for monitoring upstream services

• Honor tag "login:disabled" on authentication

• Add multi-tenant email address and content configuration

• [ui] Upgrade to webpack v4

• [ui] Fix Javascript source maps

• [ui] Upgrade to jQuery 3.3.1, modernizr 3.6.0, moment 2.22.1, select2 3.5.1, url-join 2.0.5 and waypoints 4.0.1

• [ui] Use Babel loader for webpack

• [doc] Improve installation documentation

• [mw] Direct access to OPS 3.1 API has been disabled, so stop linking to it

• [ui] Fix: When creating new project, convert project name to string

• [mw] Improve DpmaRegisterAccess re. language selection

• [mw] Improve image conversion by using the Pillow library

• [mw] Improve downtime signalling for EPO OPS API

• [mw] Improve report generation with unoconv

• [license] Officially upgrade to EUPL 1.2

• [ui] Improve full text display for IFI CLAIMS

• [mw] Fix full text acquisition from Espacenet

• [ui] jQuery 3.x upgrade aftermath:

  • Migration fixes
  • Upgrade packages bootbox, jq-pagination, jquery.viewport and stacktrace-js
  • Use clipboard.js instead of ZeroClipboard

• [ui,mw] Refactor, improve and modularize data source adapter interfaces

• [ui] Add timestamp to error report

• [ui] Fix display of query builder sorting state

• [mw] Reenable response caching for IFI CLAIMS API

• [ui] Use "cheap-source-map" strategy with webpack to fix error handling with Chrome

• [mw,ui] Add improved data source adapter for SIP again

• [mw] Unlock DEPAROM Query Translator from MTC depa.tech API

• [mw] Fix development mode re. missing display of data source chooser

• [ui,mw] Add basic Ikofax expression support for searching at DPMA DEPATISnet

• [ui] Move logout link to the bottom of the menu

2018-03-17 0.150.0

• Honor tag "email:invalid" for "list emails" endpoint
• Improve location of general notification box
• Improve user experience for "import database"

2018-03-16 0.149.0

• Upgrade to MechanicalSoup 0.10.0. Thanks, Matthieu and Dan!
• Improve whitelabel capabilities
• Improve error response handling for IFI CLAIMS
• Set default language for "dpmaregister" crawler to English
• Improve confirm dialogs for database "wipe" and "import" actions
• Improve whitespace handling at query expression translation time. Thanks, Luca!

2018-01-22 0.148.1

• Fix DPMAregister crawler

2018-01-19 0.148.0

• DPMAregister crawler: Use improvements from MechanicalSoup==1.0.0-dev. Thanks, Matthieu!
• DPMAregister crawler: Acquisition of localized artefacts (language en vs. de)

2018-01-02 0.147.1

• Fix decoding of DPMAregister "pct-or-regional-{publishing,filing}-data" for list representations

2018-01-02 0.147.0

• Add HTTP interface to DPMAregister data

2017-12-19 0.146.0

• Some updates to the DPMAregister access library. Thanks, Felix!

  • Get DPMA register URL for DE documents by calculating the checksum of the document number
  • Remove country code for DE Aktenzeichen inquiry
  • Change baseurl to use https

• More updates to the DPMAregister access library.

  • Fix access by honoring throttling employed by DPMA
  • Refactor and improve library API and inline documentation
  • Provide new access methods fetch_st36xml and fetch_pdf
  • Switch scraper from "mechanize" to "MechanicalSoup"
  • Provide command line interface program dpmaregister
  • Introduce response caching with a TTL of 24 hours
  • Decode ST.36 XML documents to JSON
  • [ui] Fix direct link to DPMAregister

• Upgrade to Moment.js 2.20.0 re. CVE-2016-4055

2017-11-16 0.145.0

• [cmd] Add patzilla-user import command for importing users from CSV file, see also :ref:`user-import`.

2017-11-16 0.144.0

• [cmd] Add patzilla-user add command for adding users to the database, see also :ref:`user-add`.

2017-11-15 0.143.2

• [ui] Fix leaking of templateHelpers variables into model attributes
• [ui] Fix export woes after switching between projects

2017-10-31 0.143.1

• Documentation: Overall improvements and polishing

2017-10-31 0.143.0

• Add console interface program patzilla
• Add command patzilla make-config {development,production} for generating a configuration file template
• Improve documentation

2017-10-31 0.142.5

• Fix MANIFEST.in
• Update fabfile and documentation regarding installation from PyPI

2017-10-31 0.142.4

• Attempt to fix README
• Make Makefile not commit itself when minifying urlcleaner.js

2017-10-31 0.142.3

• Fix numberlist search in opaque parameter mode for patentview domains
• Fix Makefile
• Naming things
• Add NASA public domain demo to README

2017-10-31 0.142.2

• Improve release process, upload to PyPI

2017-10-31 0.142.1

• Update documentation and infrastructure

2017-10-25 0.142.0

• Add Sphinx documentation infrastructure and skeleton
• Fix search metadata reset behavior
• Activate IssueReporter email target again
• Update IFI CLAIMS documentation
• Fix dependencies in setup.py for compatibility between Mac OSX and Debian GNU/Linux
• Backward compatibility for datasource identifier in user enablement settings
• Fix error when opening export dialog after creating new project. Thanks, Benjamin!
• Account for DEPATISnet responding with US application publication numbers with leading zeros after country code, e.g. US020170285092A1

2017-10-13 0.141.0

• Enable display of "CPCNO" classifications

• IFI CLAIMS fulltext fixes and improvements

  • Add proper escaping and newline replacement for description, e.g. KR20170103976A
  • Description sections “industrial-applicability” and “reference-signs-list” were missing, e.g. KR20170103976A
  • Update claims structure, e.g. JP2017128728A
  • Update "description-of-drawings" description section, e.g. JP2017128728A
  • Parse "chemistry" and other figref nodes in "summary-of-invention.tech-solution" section, e.g. JP2017128728A
  • Description section "description-of-embodiments.embodiments-example" was missing, e.g. JP2017128728A

2017-10-12 0.140.2

• Fix drilldown capabilities in liveview mode
• Fix liveview mode when running on localhost
• Fix pagesize chooser reset behavior

2017-10-12 0.140.1

• Improve patentview domain handling
• Update demo query just before expiration

2017-10-12 0.140.0

• Improve command line access to data sources
• Improve auxiliary tools selection for “convert” and “pdftk”
• Fix multivendor “hostname_matches” selection
• Fix User data model
• Fix segfaults with lxml on Debian Wheezy (7.11)
• Update production setup documentation

2017-10-12 0.139.7

• Fix “result-count-total” formatting - once more

2017-10-12 0.139.6

• Fix “result-count-total” formatting

2017-10-12 0.139.5

• Attempt to fix “result-count-total” formatting
• Bring tooling for production setup up to speed

2017-10-11 0.139.4

• Fix: Number normalization for DE..T1 documents didn't match expectations of OPS 3.2
• Improve and harmonize command line access to data sources

2017-10-11 0.139.3

• Fix typo in setup.py
• Improve texts re. whitelabeling
• Fix: Daterange "within" query stopped working after upgrade to OPS 3.2
• Fix: Paging stopped working in review mode

2017-10-11 0.139.2

• Fix citations display problem for document US9674560B1
• Slightly improve NPL citations display

2017-10-11 0.139.1

• Add utility routine for purging seen numbers to database tool
• Fix database wipe confirm dialog
• Project delete should account for child BasketEntry entities

2017-10-11 0.139.0

• Get rid of more static html templates and refactor to javascript application
• Fix image loading for jQuery Raty
• Harmonize help subsystem
• Reconfigure navigator url and main application entrypoints
• Fix “user create” widget
• Use vanilla or slightly patched components from upstream: jqPagination, KeyBoarder, notificationFx, jquery-hotkeys, lz-string

2017-10-09 0.138.0

• Update configuration file templates re. vendoring

• Load HTML templates using webpack's "underscore-template-loader"

• Large Javascript refactoring, improve directory layout and modularization contexts for all auxiliary application components

• Add stylesheet to default vendor (patzilla)

• Harmonize conditional datasource enablement

• Refactor frontend components to new directory layout

  • Data source adapters
  • Application layout- and error templates
  • Result list and document details
  • Family details
  • 3rd-party libraries and widgets
  • Application core

2017-10-06 0.137.0

• Fix opaquelinks subsystem
• Fix exception when crawling without criteria
• Vendor MTC: Update product name to “depa.tech navigator"
• Use jquery.redirect from npmjs.com
• Use jquery.viewport from npmjs.com
• IFI CLAIMS: Improve description fulltext display re. section “advantageous effects” (missing), embedded lists and embedded drawings
• Improve handling of global and runtime configuration settings
• Add vendor branding assets as discrete css stylesheets

2017-09-15 0.136.0

• Fix: Don’t cache “404 Not Found” responses from OPS' image inquiry API
• Fix hard errors in the aftermath of repository cleanup
• Improve exception handling for authentication errors against OPS API
• Improve datasource configuration mechanics
• Improve OPS API error propagation
• Update documentation re. database sandbox mode
• Pull application-wide upstream API authentication credentials from datasource settings
• Trim down automatic user provisioning
• Application configuration file cleanup
• Large namespace refactoring
• Make tests work again
• Properly handle and propagate cache database connection errors
• Disable automatic "admin" user provisioning
• Documentation, “naming things” and further cleansing
• Naming things: Rename HTTP header for transporting the keywords
• Improve parsing robustness and error propagation on invalid “pubdate” fields
• Be graceful on officelink hotkey selection problems
• Improve header layout in liveview mode
• Upgrade to most recent versions of Python foundation modules across the board
• OPS stopped delivering the elapsed time when crawling
• Improve basket model and interaction sanity
• Database export filename: naming things
• Introduce webpack for bundling the Javascript/CSS assets
• Mangle Javascript code into a suitable form for being webpacked
• Fix test framework
• Update claims fulltext manipulation for DEPATISconnect
• Introduce component activation conditionals and improve wording
• Improve fulltext display re. OPS API 3.2 changes
• Reduce notification popup display time from six to four seconds
• Introduce webpacked version of login.js
• Fix redirect on failed logins
• Protect sensible configuration settings from leaking into javascript environment
• Use vendor information from application settings
• Refactor development mode flag
• Release packaging wrt webpack
• Improve vendor information handling

2017-09-08 0.135.0

• Update IFI CLAIMS API endpoint
• Use [OL] prefix for displaying titles without @lang attribute
• Fix online help link in menu
• Fix issue reporter for query transformation
• Refactor per-datasource max_hits mechanics
• Fix behavior when reviewing empty basket
• Add datasource depa.tech
• Add branding for vendor MTC
• Improve number normalization around datasource IFI CLAIMS
• Fix document cycle sorting
• Fix highlighting for Solr complexphrase expressions
• depa.tech: Also search for priority number when using “Number” field in comfort search
• depa.tech: Populate field symbol chooser for expert search
• Bring list of global office links up to speed
• Display both (docdb) and (epodoc) numbers at application reference
• depa.tech: Highlighting for expert search
• Use recent browser-like User-Agent across the board
• Improve patent number normalization and usage
• Improve Espacenet screen scraper
• Migrate to OPS API version 3.2
• Improve/fix patent display after OPS 3.2 migration

2017-04-06 0.134.1

• Improve search backend error handling and display

2017-04-05 0.134.0

• Minor improvement to basket.add(…) method
• Fix IFI CLAIMS anomaly: KR20170037210A has "name" instead of "last-name" in applicants node
• Also grok “image/jpeg” as source format from IFI CLAIMS for delivering single pages and drawings
• Enable caching for IFI CLAIMS media downloads

2017-04-04 0.133.0

• Fix parties (applicants, inventors) display for IFI CLAIMS: An error occurred when displaying the document 'IN268402B’. Thanks, Benjamin!
• Fix exception flood from basket model
• Fix basket “Add visible” feature
• Properly handle errors when IFI CLAIMS delivers empty document for bibliographic data, e.g. IN268402A
• Make IFI CLAIMS data model grok patent citations
• Enable documents from office “KR” for IFI CLAIMS bibliographic data interface
• Improve language priorization for fulltexts from IFI CLAIMS: EN, DE, others
• Add datasource label to fulltext sections

2017-03-28 0.132.3

• Improve/fix IFI CLAIMS data model implementation
• Add “CN” to list of countries where bibliographic data can be acquired from IFI CLAIMS
• Add datasource label to detail view

2017-03-28 0.132.2

• Attempt to fix bibliographic model implementation again

2017-03-28 0.132.1

• Fix bibliographic model implementations

2017-03-28 0.132.0

• Improve fulltext/claims display for RU2015121704A via IFI CLAIMS
• Refactor bibliographic model implementation
• Optionally display bibliographic data from IFI CLAIMS (e.g. IN2015CH00356A)

2017-03-10 0.131.0

• Improve logging and error handling
• Enable fulltext acquisition for countries BE, CA, CN, FR, GB, JP, KR, LU, NL, RU through IFI CLAIMS

2017-03-08 0.130.3

• Update IFI CLAIMS documentation re. combined {!complexphrase} expressions
• Improve IFI CLAIMS translation re. queries with {!complexphrase} fulltext criteria

2017-03-08 0.130.2

• Fix numberlist crawling after distinguishing between query expression and query filter parameters

2017-03-07 0.130.1

• Minor fix to allow exporting of projects with “seen only” documents

2017-03-07 0.130.0

• Bugfix re. bad assignment between “seen” and “rated” documents in basket model
• Switch to interface flavor “expert” when signalling through url parameter “mode=expert”
• IFI CLAIMS: Distinguish between query expression and query filter parameters to better support certain time range searches

2017-03-03 0.129.1

• Fix support email delivery
• Fix deployment

2017-03-02 0.129.0

• IFI CLAIMS: Properly respond to “no servers hosting shard” error messages
• IFI CLAIMS: Improve keyword highlighting
• Improve error handling
• Keyword highlighting: Switch from whole words to fragments
• Improve support- and system-email machinery
• Move support email body template from code to configuration
• Also add user as recipient for support emails

2017-02-27 0.128.2

• Improve datetime and fulltext parsing for IFI CLAIMS

2017-02-27 0.128.1

• Improve IFI CLAIMS interface and documentation re. “maxClauseCount is set to …” error messages

2017-02-22 0.128.0

• Update IFI CLAIMS documentation
• Add vendor branding for Europatent

2017-02-20 0.127.0

• Fix typo in IFI CLAIMS documentation
• Disable data source “FulltextPRO”

2017-02-20 0.126.2

• Fix date parsing for full 4-digit years with IFI CLAIMS

2017-02-20 0.126.1

• Fix parsing regular ISO dates with IFI CLAIMS

2017-02-20 0.126.0

• Update branding for vendor Europatent
• IFI CLAIMS: Add handbook and fix field name chooser
• Make comfort search at IFI CLAIMS accept date expressions in german format

2016-11-15 0.125.3

• Tune branding for patselect.ip-tools.io

2016-11-15 0.125.2

• Tune branding for patentview.ip-tools.io

2016-11-15 0.125.1

• Tune multi-vendor branding

2016-11-15 0.125.0

• First version of multi-vendor branding

2016-11-13 0.124.0

• Improve interactive DEPATISconnect behavior through fastpath document retrieval and acquisition
• Fix Espacenet fulltext retrieval fallback
• Improve "FulltextPRO" error handling

2016-10-26 0.123.1

• Fix logging error on "FulltextPRO" exception

2016-10-18 0.123.0

• Fix placeholder display re. WO2001000469A1 vs. WO0100469A1
• Fix setup woes re. setuptools>=11.3 dependency
• Reduce production search cache time to 2 hours
• Catch new type of "FulltextPRO" error
• Improve layout of search modifiers "Family member by priority" and "Remove family members"

2016-10-12 0.122.0

• Improve anonymization of sensitive user information re. issue reporter
• Improve patent number normalization support for EAPO numbers (Eurasian Patent Organization), e.g. EA21949B1
• [TAG] Staging milestone

2016-10-12 0.121.0

• Improve swapping of family members by priority: DE, EP..B, WO, EP..A2, EP..A3, EP, US

2016-10-11 0.120.2

• Fix biblio inquiry for family member swapping
• Fix drawing display of CA industrial design documents

2016-10-11 0.120.1

• Fix priority swapping for data source DPMA and FulltextPRO
• Fix query recording re. timing problems

2016-10-10 0.120.0

• Fix DEPATISnet client re. form field "DocId"
• Fix unoconv export re. HOME environment variable
• Swapping of family members by priority DE, EP, WO, US
• Improve FulltextPRO downtime message
• Use wide layout for user interface
• Allow rotating of drawings
• Fix liveview mode when exporting a large number of basket items re. "op" parameter url cleaning
• Introduce new cache area “longer” (1 week) for caching PNG drawings
• Enable caching of static assets for 1 hour again
• Use Marionette and Underscore templates for the basic application layout (header, content, footer)
• Improve application bootstrapping behavior
• Improve application boostrapping: configuration vs. theme. Work towards a white-label version.
• Attempt to fix to errors reported by issue reporter

2016-08-07 0.119.6

• Another attempt to fix liveview mode: Strip "op" parameter before computing drilldown opaque URLs.

2016-08-07 0.119.5

• Attempt to fix liveview mode: Original "op" parameter was propagated without honoring clicked elements.

2016-08-06 0.119.4

• Fix ZeroClipboard by adding missing *.swf files to python package

2016-08-06 0.119.3

• Improve embedded rendering

2016-08-06 0.119.2

• More fixes for proper url generation to patentview

2016-08-06 0.119.1

• Improve OPS logging
• Fix liveview link propagation

2016-08-06 0.119.0

• Depend on more recent versions of Python modules (pyOpenSSL, pyasn1, ndg-httpsclient) to ensure SNI compatibility for egress HTTP requests
• Improve embedding of single documents for Workbook exports

2016-08-05 0.118.0

• Improve efficiency when accessing PDF archive: Use persistent requests session, use requests transport with xmlrpclib, switch API entrypoint at upstream data provider to improved Linux infrastructure
• Try to improve TIFF to PNG conversion quality (contrast) by switching to more recent version of ImageMagick - Before: https://patentsearch.elmyra.de/api/drawing/BE1018034A6?page=2 - After: https://patentsearch-develop.elmyra.de/api/drawing/BE1018034A6?page=2
• React appropriately to “busy” or “overload” situations at OPS by introducing little amounts of delays in request processing
• Improve robustness and logging on multi-stage fetching of PDF documents
• Improve data export robustness and logging

2016-08-04 0.117.0

• Improve robustness of OPS OAuth client
• Add Javascript components “jQuery Redirect” and “bootstrap-slider”
• Improve data export facility and user interface
• Add Python modules pandas, XlsxWriter and html2text
• Add XML Workbook to PDF conversion based on LibreOffice, unoconv and envoy

2016-05-11 0.116.4

• Fix logic for displaying per-user-enabled data source buttons
• [TAG] Staging milestone

2016-05-02 0.116.3

• Fix another Javascript runtime error reported by issue reporter on staging re. old query history items vs. new search modifiers

2016-05-02 0.116.2

• Fix some Javascript runtime errors reported by issue reporter on staging

2016-05-02 0.116.1

• Issue reporter: Fix query expression to user interface propagation, for “no results” panel as well as the issue reporter dialog

2016-05-01 0.116.0

Features

• IFI: Enable expression parsing with “Class” criteria in comfort form

• IFI: Remove family members

• IFI: Basic crawler

• CIPO: Add direkt link to CIPO, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• WIPO: Add direkt link to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Office

• DPMA: Adapt wildcard semantics in comfort form to world standards

• Query builder: Improve design and layout of history chooser

• Display: For EP..A4 documents, display drawings of family members

• Display: Improve experience with brand new US documents not yet in OPS, Espacenet or other databases, e.g. US9317610B2

  • If PDF can not be acquired elsewhere, redirect to USPTO servers
  • If drawing actually gets loaded despite the document having no bibliographic information, swap out the placeholder and display the drawing at least. Also improve feedback to the user.
  • Add external links to USPTO for US documents
  • Improve display of drawing "totalcount" value if there's no information about it

Infrastructure

• Generalize keyword field whitelist handling between OPS and DEPATISnet

• Generalize query expression parsing between CQL (EPO, DEPATISnet) and Solr (IFI CLAIMS)

  • IFI: Improve keyword extraction and highlighting
  • IFI: Improve class rewriting in comfort form
  • IFI: Roundtrip class rewriting for proper keyword extraction from query expression
  • IFI: Basic software tests for query expression parsing

• Add caching for drawings from USPTO and CIPO

• UI: Improve error handling for batch requests

• Use generic DatasourceCrawler also when doing batch requests to OPS to gain generic filtering routines

• Improve image/pdf acquisition robustness

• Improve user interface wording for placeholders and more

• Enhance bulk request error handling

• IFI: Propagate information about removal of patent family members from middleware to frontend

• Improve placeholders for feature “Remove family members”

• “Report problem” subsystem and user interface

• Display: Introduce mini menu

• Unify response data- and error-channels amongst all data sources

• Add commandline tool for cleaning the IP Suite Navigator Browser database

• Streamline Javascript application boot process

• Improve search modifier propagation: Add pathway from query parameters to metadata

Bug fixes and minor updates

• Improve OPS connection error handling
• Improve keyword extraction and propagation
• Fix woes with javascript “htmlentities” machinery
• LinkMaker: Update/fix urls for Espacenet and Google
• Improve wording on email for "Document unavailable » Report problem"
• Don’t quote single numbers for OPS query expression in “perform_listsearch”
• Improve document number decoder: Make it grok JP numbers like “JPWO2013186910A1”
• Fix sorting of documents in subsearch- and numberlist-modes
• Deactivate downvoting EP..A3 documents when displaying most recent publication
• Stop saving reference to project in QueryModel, this has led to dereferenced ProjectModel objects sucking up localStorage space
• Fix pager setup on numberlistsearch
• Fix family member removal notification: Differentiate between empty results from OPS in general and empty results after slicing
• Don’t use review mode when sharing a basket via link as numberlist
• Don’t display menu entrypoint in “liveview” mode

2016-04-18 0.115.0

• Don’t use DE..A8 family members as alternative for displaying drawings
• Use alternatives from patent family also when displaying drawings of DE..A8 documents

2016-04-18 0.114.0

• Improve exception handling for "FulltextPRO" upstream
• Update "FulltextPRO" database search endpoint after server changeover
• Improve OPS drawing inquiry re. US amendments/corrections
• Improve "FulltextPRO" session management for error cases
• Improve placeholders re. gracefulness to WO anomalies like WO2003049775A2 vs. WO03049775A2
• Improve drawings carousel by using drawings from family members for references (Aktenzeichen) like DE112013003369A5
• Reactivate SDP data adapter as IFI CLAIMS

2016-03-19 0.113.0

• ui: compensate for anomaly with references-cited at EP2479266A1

2016-02-19 0.112.0

• middleware: improve logging for FulltextPRO
• ui: strip kindcodes from numbers in numberlist

2016-01-06 0.111.2

• "FulltextPRO" adapter: don’t decode xml from utf-8 when pretty printing
• middleware: adapt tests to changes in US number normalization
• middleware: reactivate SE..A to SE..L rewriting with number normalization

2016-01-05 0.111.1

• reflect year change in copyright footers - happy new year!

2015-12-31 0.111.0

• middleware: improve parsing behavior for cql micro expressions regarding discrete years in half-bounded intervals

2015-12-30 0.110.0

• ui: stop storing "title" attributes into BasketEntryModel objects, also remove when touching objects
• middleware: add tool "browser_database_tool" for manipulating browser database dumps (json)
• middleware: don’t list email addresses for newsletter if user is tagged with “newsletter:opt-out”
• ui: improve display when no classifications are available
• ui: citation references from non-US family members
• middleware: add cache region “medium” with ttl of one day, set ttl of region “static” to one month (before: one year)
• middleware: improve DRAWINGS decoding from OPS image inquiry response, has great impacts on US drawings display

2015-12-22 0.109.2

• ui: make IE11 behave
• ui: change color of reading progress indicator to more decent turquoise

2015-12-22 0.109.1

• middleware: improve depatisnet client by vaporizing after any http error
• ui: improve reading progress indicator

2015-12-22 0.109.0

• ui: add “ToProgress” top bar library
• ui: add reading progress indicator

2015-12-21 0.108.1

• ui: refactor components due to import order woes

2015-12-21 0.108.0

• ui: Feature "Fetch publication numbers of all results, strip kindcodes and build list of unique entries."
• ui: add jquery.waypoints library
• ui: Feature "track seen documents": introduce “seen” attribute to BasketEntryModel
• ui: Feature "track seen documents": apply basket item “seen” state to user interface by decreasing opacity of document panels
• ui: fix document list comparator re. document numbers w/o kindcode
• ui: Feature "track seen documents": introduce “mode_fade_seen” attribute to ProjectModel and bind mode behavior to it
• ui: make datasource “numberlist” and review mode honor “full-cycle” search modifier
• ui: sophisticated placeholder subsystem
• middleware: improve number normalization for US numbers, e.g. US20150322651A1
• ui: proper sorting (recent first, past first) for kindcode variants with EP..A3 downvoting
• middleware: disable long-term caching for ops family queries

2015-12-18 0.107.0

• DEPATISnet adapter: fix scraper response handling re. parsing of upstream errors and result count
• DEPATISnet adapter: feature “family-replace”
• ui: fix result comparator sorting for numberlists without patent kindcodes

2015-12-16 0.106.0

• middleware: allow cache invalidation for upstream resources by url parameter “invalidate=true”

2015-12-15 0.105.0

• ui: display results in the same order as coming from upstream; this applies to DEPATISnet, "FulltextPRO" and Numberlist queries

2015-12-15 0.104.2

• ui: improve visibility of active search option modifier buttons (full cycle, remove family members, full family)

2015-12-15 0.104.1

• DEPATISnet adapter: Properly propagate search options (Modifiers, Sorting) to crawler subsystem

2015-12-15 0.104.0

• DEPATISnet adapter: Feature "Sorting of results"

2015-12-14 0.103.0

• FulltextPRO adapter: Feature "Full family"

2015-12-14 0.102.1

• “Remove family members” at DEPATISnet: fix edge case where hit count would display wrong numbers when requesting in family-only mode and having more than 1000 results

2015-12-14 0.102.0

• DEPATISnet adapter: Feature "Remove family members"
• ui: improve querybuilder layout and mechanics

2015-09-25 0.101.1

• "FulltextPRO" adapter: fix xml query building re. xml declaration

2015-09-25 0.101.0

• middleware: improve ops image inquiry robustness
• ui: improve numberlist robustness, filter empty entries
• middleware: improve sdp backend, fetch single resources (xml, json, pdf, tif, png)
• auth: improve lua layer robustness
• auth: turn on open access to “kindcodes” api again
• middleware: improve sdp backend, fetch multiple resources (xml:pretty,json:pretty,png,pdf)
• DEPATISnet adapter: improve error detection on upstream result decoding errors
• DEPATISnet adapter: fix XLS decoding error, upstream added new status line to first row e.g. "Search query: pn=(EP666666) Status: 25.09.2015"

2015-09-02 0.100.0

• middleware: add flexibility to work against a local archive service instance for accessing DEPATISconnect
• middleware: improve number normalization for JP and SE documents
• middleware: improve fulltext access robustness at DEPATISconnect vs. Espacenet

2015-07-16 0.99.0

• middleware: add datasource "SDP": Serviva Data Proxy / IFI CLAIMS

2015-06-02 0.98.0

• middleware: smart normalization for applicant names on direct url entry

2015-05-18 0.97.10

• middleware/ui: add "applicant-distinct" analytics module
• middleware: fix edge case re. proximity operators in "FulltextPRO" expressions
• middleware: DPMA register: fix form selection (don't select by name, but by number)

2015-04-10 0.97.9

• middleware: fix dependency on "xlrd" for reading excel files

2015-04-10 0.97.8

• middleware: switch depatisnet to data acquisition via xls (excel) file instead of csv

2015-04-09 0.97.7

• middleware: fix more edge cases when parsing non-standard html entities from depatisnet csv inventor or applicant fields

2015-04-08 0.97.6

• middleware: fix edge cases when parsing non-standard html entities from depatisnet csv inventor or applicant fields

2015-04-05 0.97.5

• middleware: minor post-refactoring fixes

2015-03-30 0.97.4

• middleware: replace html entities in csv response from depatisnet

2015-03-30 0.97.3

• ui: fix "fetch result numbers" for queries including umlauts

2015-03-22 0.97.2

• ui/middleware: minor fixes to embedding subsystem

2015-03-22 0.97.1

• ui/middleware: make embedding subsystem more generic

2015-03-21 0.97.0

• ui/middleware: standalone carousel widget

2015-03-21 0.96.1

• ui: move application components

2015-03-21 0.96.0

• middleware: analytics api for "newest" and "oldest" searches
• ui: preliminary access to analytics api

2015-02-26 0.95.5

• middleware: fall back to Espacenet for DE- and US-fulltexts

2015-02-26 0.95.4

• middleware: implement asciifolding for FulltextPRO

2015-02-26 0.95.3

• middleware: fix cache key charset encoding problem by upgrading to Beaker 1.7.0dev

2015-02-25 0.95.2

• middleware: fix HTTPS self-signed certificate validation problem for Python >= 2.7.9, see PEP 476
• auth: turn off open access to “kindcodes” api
• ui: fix query history display after creating new project
• ui: fix event listening when creating ProjectChooserView instances

2015-02-10 0.95.1

• middleware: improve pdf bulk delivery: include report.txt into zip archive, be graceful for invalid patent numbers

2015-02-10 0.95.0

• ui: fix “wipe database”
• ui: improve performance when adding many result numbers to document collection
• middleware: use MongoDB GridFS for storing large binary static resources from upstream to prevent DocumentTooLarge errors

2015-02-10 0.94.3

• ui: enhance show-/hide-mechanics of paging components et al.

2015-02-10 0.94.2

• middleware: fix case sensitivity problem in fulltext expression parser for FulltextPRO

2015-02-10 0.94.1

• ui: fix ui lockup issues with new query history chooser

2015-01-25 0.94.0

• ui: major improvements to query history subsystem

2015-01-23 0.93.3

• middleware: minor but important enhancements to FulltextPRO query expression parser

2015-01-23 0.93.2

• ui: fix typo in main template introduced when doing the document error template in a hurry

2015-01-23 0.93.1

• ui: fix/enhance rendering of application reference and priority claims

2015-01-23 0.93.0

• ui: fix display problem for documents without “patent-classification” attribute, this occurred with documents from e.g. B60N3/02, B60N3/10
• ui: display placeholder on exception in central document item template
• ui: proper page-break handling
• ui: boot application even if experiencing problems with localStorage (for print mode)
• middleware: try “wkhtmltopdf” for pdf rendering
• ui: fix display problem for documents without “classification-ipcr” attribute
• ui: enhance rendering of application reference and priority claims

2015-01-21 0.92.0

• ui: offer adding all numbers to basket after fetching result numberlist

2015-01-21 0.91.0

• middleware: enhance ops usage api (differentiate between "ago" and "current" - per period)
• middleware: uppercase patentnumber when searching at FulltextPRO
• ui: bug: when clicking through family citations, current view state (e.g. project) is not propagated properly
• ui: explore all family members
• middleware: more enhancements to FulltextPRO query translator
• middleware: don't use "inpadoc" field qualifier when searching for applicant or investor at FulltextPRO
• middleware: understand year ranges in comfort form, e.g. 1990-2014, 1990 - 2014, 1990-, -2014
• middleware: fix gif to tiff conversion (required for acquiring drawings from CIPO)
• middleware: username (email) should always be lowercase
• middleware: admin api: filter email addresses by tag: /api/admin/users/emails?tag=vdpm

2015-01-20 0.90.3

• middleware: increase timeout for XmlRpcTimeoutServer (DEPATISconnect) from 8 to 15 seconds

2015-01-20 0.90.2

• ui: distinguish between erroneous or empty responses to on-demand requests for abstracts at DEPATISconnect
• middleware: attempt to detect when searching at FulltextPRO fails due to invalid session and relogin again
• middleware: make FulltextPRO expression parser handle more expressions from the wild

2015-01-19 0.90.1

• middleware: make fieldnames case insensitive at FulltextPRO expression translator
• middleware: unicode support for FulltextPRO expression translator

2015-01-19 0.90.0

• ui: copy comfort form contents to clipboard, clear comfort form values

2015-01-19 0.89.1

• middleware: fix keyword trimming at FulltextPRO expression converter

2015-01-19 0.89.0

• middleware: major enhancements to FulltextPRO expression translator re. unqualified search expressions, tests
• middleware: enable new FulltextPRO expression translator on all inputs for fields "Class" and "Full text"

2015-01-18 0.88.1

• middleware: fixes to FultextPRO expression enhancements

2015-01-18 0.88.0

• middleware: enhance FulltextPRO comfort form capabilities for "Class" expressions
• middleware: enhance FulltextPRO comfort form capabilities for “Full text” expressions
• tests: tests for enhanced FulltextPRO cql expressions and parser refinements

2015-01-17 0.87.4

• middleware: enhance timeout behavior at DEPATISconnect upstream

2015-01-15 0.87.3

• middleware: fix "DEPATISconnect alternatives" routine

2015-01-14 0.87.2

• ui: don’t display FulltextPRO query in expert mode, unless using “debug=true”
• ui: warning message re. capping the first 10 elements also should appear when exploring the citation environment in main bibliographic view

2015-01-14 0.87.1

• ui: reactivate feature "Documents citing same citations"

2015-01-14 0.87.0

• middleware: reverse kindcode fixing for DE documents at DEPATISconnect
• middleware: enhance patent number normalization for old US publications, e.g. US000000024087E => USRE24087E
• middleware: perform kindcode fixing also on patent normalization api
• ui: move “Fetch result numbers” button to results tool menu
• ui: deactivated feature "Documents citing same citations"
• middleware: enhance/fix FulltextPRO fulltext search field
• ui: display limits of datasource in “fetch result numbers” dialog

2015-01-13 0.86.2

• middleware: enhanced patentnumber- and kindcode-normalization for offices AR, GE, IT and ES
• middleware: enhanced patentnumber- and kindcode-normalization for office DE, esp. reg. older german publications

2015-01-12 0.86.1

• authentication: restrict access to admin api
• admin api: add endpoint for inquiring email addresses of all users

2015-01-12 0.86.0

• middleware: FulltextPRO user impersonation / multi-tenancy

2015-01-12 0.85.0

• middleware: number normalization: AT362828E should be returned as AT362828T for querying at OPS
• middleware/ui: ops upstream datasource crawler for fetching complete list of publication numbers, user interface
• ui: fix “full-cycle” for firefox
• middleware/ui: numberlist crawler for DEPATISnet
• middleware/ui: numberlist crawler for FulltextPRO

2015-01-09 0.84.0

• tests: add tests for patent number normalization routines
• tests: adapt tests for patent number normalization routines to enhancements of normalization algorithms for AT- and JP-offices
• middleware: pass through not-normalizable numbers from 3rd-party datasources to OPS
• middleware: number normalization for e.g. BR000PI0507004A
• ui: permit definition of short user-defined keywords (0 chars minimum)

2015-01-09 0.83.2

• middleware: reject bad search syntax in FulltextPRO fulltext field

2015-01-09 0.83.2

• ui: enhance document viewport detection reg. hotkey behaviour; should properly work on last item in list now

2015-01-09 0.83.1

• middleware: finally remove last hack against FulltextPRO deficiencies reg. ipc- vs. cpc-classes

2015-01-08 0.83.0

• middleware: increase DEPATISconnect service run_acquisition request timeout from 3 to 8 seconds; hopefully this improves the 502/504 http errors occurring on production
• middleware: switch to modern version of FulltextPRO comfort form -> xml query translation again, allowing nested OR expressions
• middleware/ui: allow "DE,EP" comfort form syntax for countries
• ui: Family citations highlighting: auto generate hsla colors to increase color space
• ui: Family citations highlighting: when saving keyword mappings, remove highlighted keywords before applying highlighting again
• ui: Don't use dismissed basket entries in review mode
• ui: cache "get_numbers" on basket model, this would be called on each "link_document"
• ui: enhance behavior for hitting page bottom when scrolling to next item, simplify code

2015-01-06 0.82.2

• dummy release

2015-01-06 0.82.1

• ui: properly catch condition when there's no family information available

2015-01-06 0.82.0

• ui: add ECMAScript 6 compatibility shim
• ui: explore citation environment of all cited references aggregated across all family members
• ui: highlighting for family citations

2015-01-06 0.81.3

• middleware: cleanup host-based constraints in parameter firewall
• middleware: fix keyword extraction from FulltextPRO fulltext field containing boolean expressions

2015-01-06 0.81.2

• middleware: enhance FulltextPRO IPC/CPC class woes

2015-01-05 0.81.1

• ui: fix keyword decoding for complex queries

2015-01-05 0.81.0

• middleware: bug: “just one IPC class works with FulltextPRO”; another fix for “modern mode => legacy mode”
• middleware/ui: number normalization for numberlists

2015-01-05 0.80.0

• ui: slightly enhance layout of “references cited (56)” data
• ui: scroll to top of window after paging
• ui: pagedown/pageup (space/shift+space) navigation now also utilizes paging when overdrawing
• ui: enhance scrolling- and paging-behaviors

2015-01-05 0.79.0

• ui: fix direct numberlist mode for internet explorer
• middleware: fix FulltextPRO query generation (deactivated "modern mode" due to problems with "FulltextPRO" query parser)
• ui: shortcut button for jumping from bibliographic data directly to the “Family » Citations” tab

2015-01-04 0.78.0

• auth: fix authentication.lua re. “came_from”
• ui: "family citations" prototype

2015-01-04 0.77.1

• ui: minor tweaks to custom highlighting style

2015-01-04 0.77.0

• auth: fix "came_from" functionality

2015-01-04 0.76.0

• ui: enhance custom highlighting style

2015-01-04 0.75.0

• ui: display badges for patentsearch-staging and -develop
• ui: extend copyright line to current year (2015)
• ui: enable all modules in development mode

2015-01-04 0.74.0

• ui: fix - highlighting stopped working when displaying document details (claims, description)
• ui: enhance custom highlighting

2014-12-16 0.73.0

• ui: individual keyword highlighting - prototype

2014-12-15 0.72.0

• middleware: propagate userid upstream to middleware and resolve user detail information from MongoDB
• middleware: use OPS credentials from user details, otherwise fall back to Elmyra OPS credentials
• middleware: publish and enhance OPS usage api
• middleware: per-user, per-day metrics for upstream transfer volume
• middleware: use "modules" info from user details for computing allowed access to FulltextPRO

2014-12-14 0.71.4

• middleware: fix FulltextPRO error messages

2014-12-10 0.71.3

• middleware: fix OPS applicant family analytics

2014-12-10 0.71.2

• middleware: deactivate enhanced flexible class querying at FulltextPRO due to upstream regressions

2014-12-10 0.71.1

• middleware: fix OPS applicant family analytics

2014-12-10 0.71.0

• middleware: OPS applicant family analytics enhancements: word- and image-counts
• middleware: enhance query expression utility service for “applicant” field, e.g. “MAMMUT SPORTS GROUP AG”
• middleware: fix number normalization of AT numbers
• ui: scroll to first result entry after paging
• middleware: enhance/fix drawing inquiry
• ui: display original values of parties (applicant, inventor)
• middleware: make umlauts work at FulltextPRO, e.g. applicant=Kärcher
• middleware: OPS applicant family analytics enhancements: designated states

2014-12-08 0.70.1

• middleware: fix "FulltextPRO" CPC classes import

2014-12-08 0.70.0

• middleware: integrate "FulltextPRO" CPC classes

2014-12-05 0.69.0

• middleware: OPS applicant family analytics prototype

2014-12-04 0.68.0

• middleware: honor "bi=" fieldname in comfort form fulltext search expression
• middleware: minor fix for problems with umlauts in “inventor” field in comfort form
• ui: don’t close document view when switching regions to fix lost event listeners
• ui: link non-patent-literature citations to search.crossref.org

2014-12-02 0.67.0

• middleware: propagate error message from "FulltextPRO" search to user interface
• ui: reset document model on error while avoiding double rendering on initial page load
• middleware/ui: propagate ftpro search exception to user interface
• middleware: fix for boolean fulltext expressions for FulltextPRO search
• ui: enhance/fix error behavior, error display and hotkeys
• ui: enable/fix autocomplete in comfort form (workaround)
• middleware: strip spaces from values of comfort form @ FulltextPRO to fix "FulltextPRO" syntax error
• ui: fix comfort form submit-on-return for non-ie/-safari browsers
• middleware/ui: enhance error message propagation
• middleware/ui: fix/enhance query expression building experience
• middleware: propagate error message about unknown IPC class from FulltextPRO comfort form

2014-12-01 0.66.0

• middleware: allow simple boolean expressions (e.g. ti=bildschirm and ab=fahrzeug) in comfort form for FulltextPRO search

2014-11-24 0.65.1

• fix depatisconnect adapter

2014-11-24 0.65.0

• remove beta badge

2014-11-18 0.64.0

• ui: display other classifications (UC, FI, FTERM)
• middleware: enhance timeout behavior when downloading PDF documents (1 second)
• ui/middleware: fulltext-modifier-chooser for selecting in which fulltext fields (title, abstract, claim, description) to search at "FulltextPRO" backend
• ui: fullscreen mode feature

2014-11-17 0.63.0

• ui: display application number

2014-11-16 0.62.3

• ui: remove application date from document header area

2014-11-16 0.62.2

• ui: don't use tables with full borders

2014-11-16 0.62.1

• ui: improve display of inpadoc patent family (compact)

2014-11-16 0.62.0

• ui/middleware: display inpadoc patent family

2014-11-15 0.61.2

• ui: fix database import on Windows

2014-11-14 0.61.1

• ui: fix collectionView / listRegion display woes

2014-11-14 0.61.0

• ui/middleware: new result view showing all search results from FulltextPRO

2014-11-12 0.60.0

• ui/middleware: display nice error message if "FulltextPRO" is in maintenance mode

2014-11-12 0.59.1

• ui: try to make hotkeys work from inside input fields by delaying setup

2014-11-12 0.59.0

• ui: disable google datasource activation shortcut on production

2014-11-12 0.58.0

• middleware: apply number normalization to results from FulltextPRO, enhance number normalization for JP documents

2014-11-11 0.57.0

• ui: renamed “also published as” to “full cycle”
• ftpro backend: use textsearch with fullfamily="false" to satisfy customer requirement
• ftpro backend: apply intermediary hack to allow for simple concatenation with “and” or “or” operators of class search expression in comfort form

2014-11-09 0.56.0

• ui: enhance hotkey handling
• ui: update jquery.hotkeys.js
• ui: add feature to query by numberlist

2014-11-08 0.55.1

• ui: enhancements to zoomed form field hotkey handling

2014-11-08 0.55.0

• ui: comfort form input field zooming and hotkey improvements

2014-11-07 0.54.0

• ui: make google datasource invisible by default

2014-11-07 0.53.0

• ui/middleware: lazy acquisition of german abstracts for DE documents from DEPATISconnect

2014-11-06 0.52.0

• ui: enhance and stabilize query behavior, user experience and keyword propagation

2014-11-06 0.51.0

• ui: full-cycle mode chooser
• middleware: allow searching for discrete ipc classes at FulltextPRO

2014-11-06 0.50.1

• ui: fix minor typo

2014-11-06 0.50.0

• ui: fix ftpro keyword propagation
• ui: change text on login form: beta => 14 day trial
• deployment: add target “vdpm”
• ui/middleware: integrated Google Patents
• ui/middleware: lots of refactoring

2014-11-05 0.49.0

• ui/middleware: fix for weird Chrome bug: "X-PatZilla-Query-Keywords" headers are recieved duplicated
• ui: paging layout overflow fix for Internet Explorer

2014-11-05 0.47.0

• ui: fix: only set query and keywords if non-empty after computing query expression
• deployment: whitelist FulltextPRO for domain patentsearch.vdpm.elmyra.de
• misc: enhance error message when OPS is in maintenance mode
• middleware/ui: enhance paging mechanics with propagation to datasource and lazy fetching
• ui: cosmetic fixes
• ui: deactivate Export (Report) functionality

2014-10-08 0.46.0

• middleware/ui: compute keywords from comfort form field values if datasource=ftpro
• middleware/ui: enhance error handling on invalid field values in "FulltextPRO" comfort form
• middleware: enable "FulltextPRO" IPC class querying with right truncation, e.g. H04L29*

2014-10-08 0.45.0

• middleware/ui: connect comfort search form with ftpro datasource
• middleware: "FulltextPRO" concordance subsystem for resolving countries and ipc classes

2014-10-07 0.44.2

• middleware: activate ftpro query caching
• ui: just parse ftpro results if result count >0

2014-10-07 0.44.1

• rename file for an attempt on dependency mungling

2014-10-07 0.44.0

• middleware: lowlevel adapter to search provider "SIP/FulltextPRO"
• ui/middleware: integrate "FulltextPRO" search provider into user interface

2014-10-04 0.43.2

• middleware: when performing patentnumber normalization, strip leading zeros from JP document numbers (DEPATISnet yields numbers like JP002011251389A)

2014-09-12 0.43.1

• fix pdf url at new “also published as” bibliographic data

2014-09-12 0.43.0

• data: stay in full-cycle mode, but only use first result document as representative one
• data: enrich representative document with "also published as" bibliographic data
• ui: display “also published as” information

2014-09-05 0.42.0

• api: endpoint for inquiring all publication kindcodes by publication reference

2014-08-07 0.41.0

• fix highlighting for descriptions from DEPATISconnect

2014-08-04 0.40.0

• middleware: api endpoint for downloading a zip archive of multiple pdf documents
• ui: wire multiple pdf zip archive download
• ui: various minor improvements, some javascript refactoring
• ui/middleware: lots of minor tweaks, more icons for notifications, wording
• ui: import and share numberlist from/via clipboard

2014-08-03 0.39.0

• ui: improve field autofocus behavior
• ui: switch to expert mode when receiving url parameter ?query=
• middleware: fix UserHistory.userid uniqueness

2014-08-03 0.38.0

• ui: fix statusline margin
• middleware: fix path to pdftk
• ui: fix search interface behavior weirdness
• ui: medium refactoring of javascript code from main.js/core.js to components/*
• ui: refactor ops-fulltext specific code from core.js to ops.js
• middleware/ui: retrieve german fulltexts from DEPATISconnect
• ui: major refactoring of javascript code from core.js to components/*
• ui: indicate activity (spinner) while fetching document details
• middleware: run document acquisition when document fulltext details yielded no results at DEPATISconnect
• middleware: fall back to CIPO for Canadian drawings
• ui: fix snapped scrolling in Internet Explorer, improve snapping behavior in corner cases
• ui: retrieve US fulltexts from DEPATISconnect
• ui: fix Internet Explorer SVG scaling in datasource chooser
• ui: fix/improve pdf.svg
• middleware/ui: universal pdf endpoint
• middleware: record user logins with timestamp in preparation to "daily usage plan"
• ui: improve field autofocus behavior

2014-08-01 0.37.0

• ui fix: query history stopped being submittable
• ui: make highlighting yellow hurt less
• ui: add header background image
• ui: refactor querybuilder initializer functions to querybuilder.js
• ui: enhance header style
• ui: refactor hotkeys code out of core.js
• ui: improve header, add link to help page
• ui: hotkeys for switching querybuilder flavor
• ui: improve querybuilder flavor event handling
• ui: print mode fixes
• ui: enhance notifications

2014-08-01 0.36.0

• ui/data: properly deserialize ops response reg. nested results
• ui: compute cql query from comfort form fields already when switching tabs
• ui: query builder action button reorganization
• ui: basket action button reorganization
• ui: project action button reorganization
• ui: swap tabs: Biblio, Claims, Desc
• ui: rename “basket” to “collection”
• ui: more action button enhancements
• ui: put comment button right next to "Biblio, Claims, Desc"

2014-08-01 0.35.0

• middleware: run ops search with "full-cycle" to retrieve A3 and B1 documents and more

2014-07-31 0.34.0

• ui: refactor query builder to separate component
• ui: introduce field-based query builder (comfort flavor)
• ui: update cql field chooser for DEPATISnet
• ui: change font for basket display

2014-07-16 0.33.0

• ui: fix patoffice integration; submit basket content without rating stars
• ui: fix broken inline links; don't propagate "datasource=depatisnet”, but explicitly switch to “datasource=ops” instead
• ui: better demo query for login panel
• auth: use session cookies instead of persistent cookies for propagating the authentication token
• auth: use "Secure" for making cookies https-only
• middleware/auth: timestamps for User (created, modified)

2014-07-14 0.32.0

• auth/identity/ui: propagate user tags to middleware, implement user create form; only permit for elmyra staff

2014-07-14 0.31.4

• minor fixes and updates

2014-07-14 0.31.3

• middleware: "RNG must be re-initialized after fork()" fixing again

2014-07-14 0.31.2

• middleware: fix nasty "AssertionError: PID check failed. RNG must be re-initialized after fork(). Hint: Try Random.atfork()" error with opaque parameter subsystem

2014-07-14 0.31.1

• auth/ui: tweak login form, fix cookie renewal

2014-07-14 0.31.0

• auth/ui: make login screen more appealing
• auth/ui: sign out with button
• ui: permalink to current query
• auth: always permit access to “patentview” domains

2014-07-14 0.30.0

• infrastructure: enable multi-site deployment
• middleware: improve serving of vanity urls vs. favicon.ico
• middleware: try to fix vanity url redirect routine
• middleware/ui: generalize patentsearch vs. patentview mechanism
• middleware/auth: nginx-lua-auth proof-of-concept (http basic auth)
• middleware/ui/auth: nginx-lua-auth enhancements (login-form)
• ui/auth: enhance login box: integrate actions (login failed, register account) via email; rumble on error
• auth: automatic cookie renewal, proper error responses for /api and /static routes
• middleware: simple user identity subsystem
• auth: authenticate against identity service, propagate userid/username to upstream service via http headers
• auth/ui: sign out with button

2014-07-10 0.29.0

• middleware: make cheshire3 cql parser unicode aware

• middleware/tests: add nosetest environment

• middleware: add alternative cql parser implementation based on pyparsing, with doctests

• middleware: make pyparsing cql parser unicode aware, tweak and cleanup things

• middleware/tests: add more inline doctests to pyparsing cql parser

• middleware: make cql parser understand neighbourhood term operators

• middleware/tests: add doctests for testing DEPATISnet CQL features

• middleware/tests: add doctests for testing OPS CQL features

• middleware: fix neighborhood operator problems in value shortcut notations

• middleware/tests: add more complex, unrefurbished cql queries from the wild to depatisnet doctests

• ui: overhaul highlighting component

  • don't crash html
  • option to expand highlighting to whole words (wholeWords - false by default)
  • option to restrict highlighting to words with minimum length (minLength - undefined by default)

• middleware/tests: infrastructure for reading utf-8 encoded doctest files (from NLTK)

• middleware/tests: fix utf-8 encoding problem for doctests

• middleware: minor tweaks to cql parser

• middleware: activate new cql parser

• ui: activate new highlighting component

• middleware/caching [fix]: Beaker hashes keys with length > 250 by default which croaks when processing unicode values; prevent that by increasing to key_length=16384

• ui: multicolor keyword highlighting

2014-07-04 0.28.0

• middleware: fix charset encoding when propagating cql query to DEPATISnet and extracting keywords; enhance keyword processing

2014-07-03 0.27.0

• middleware: updated cheshire cql parser from upstream re. “style: PEP8 fixes for core modules”
• middleware: make cheshire cql parser smarter by allowing value shortcut notations like 'index=(term)' or 'index=(term1 and term2 or term3)'
• middleware: tests for value shortcut notation extension of cheshire cql parser

2014-06-24 0.26.1

• ui: fix query-links in liveview mode

2014-06-24 0.26.0

• ui: add "keyboarder" library
• ui: add “list-group” css from bootstrap3
• ui: add help page
• ui: add hotkey overview to help page
• ui: fix/improve inline query-link parameter building

2014-06-24 0.25.1

• fix/improve build and deployment infrastructure

2014-06-24 0.25.0

• ui, middleware: user-facing error messages for opaque parameter subsystem
• ui: only push url parameters to history api if they differ from their defaults
• ui: add "beta" badge again
• middleware: increase review-in-liveview link ttl to 24 hours again
• ui: fix project name display in liveview mode
• ui: enhance basket activation/deactivation in case project has no basket
• middleware: use static signing key for opaque parameter subsystem
• ui, middleware: show expiry time and improve statusline formatting in liveview mode
• ui: refactor permalink popover template
• ui: begin refactoring some global helpers to generic UiController to keep up DRY
• ui, middleware: add some generic utils
• ui: improve permalink popover widget and subsystem
• ui: basket sharing via url
• ui: basket sharing via email: improve content details
• ui: improve history api interaction

2014-06-22 0.24.3

• ui: attempt to fix link expiry display

2014-06-22 0.24.2

• release release

2014-06-22 0.24.1

• ui, middleware: propagate metadata of signed opaque parameter token downstream to show link expiry time (ttl) in user interface

2014-06-22 0.24.0

• ui, parameters: add button to popover for opening permalinks, tune urlcleaner regex
• ui: added “ZeroClipboard 2.1.2”
• ui: add button to copy permalink to clipboard

2014-06-22 0.23.4

• ui, parameters: fix bootstrapping via "numberlist" query parameter

2014-06-22 0.23.3

• ui: minor fix when displaying the current project name without having one
• ui: increased default opaque parameter ttl to 24 hours

2014-06-22 0.23.2

• ui: attempt to fix opaque parameter mechanics for inline “query-link”s

2014-06-22 0.23.1

• ui: attempt to fix permalinks re. baseurl linking

2014-06-22 0.23.0

• middleware: add “translogger” to development.ini to have an access.log
• ui: clean huge url parameters like “database” or “op” from url at an early stage using the HTML5 history API to avoid referrer spam
• ui/javascript infrastructure: adapt Makefile and MANIFEST
• ui, storage: fix localforage.clear on localStorage to only wipe the current database
• middleware: add some request variables (host-, and path-information) to application configuration
• ui: make permalink buttons show popovers with full uris in text input form elements
• ui, storage: resolve “duplicate project name problem” when importing database to "context=viewer"
• ui: improve permalink mechanics
• middleware: deactivate translogger (for access.log)

2014-06-15 0.22.2

• ui: add “lz-string” library
• ui: compress "data" url with "lz-string"

2014-06-15 0.22.1

• ui, middleware: fix viewer lockdown mode for patentview.elmyra.de

2014-06-15 0.22.0

• middleware: attempt to fix url routing re. undesired infinite redirect loops
• middleware: bind host=patentview.elmyra.de to mode=liveview and title=Patent view
• ui: interactively generate opaque permalinks
• ui: use "opaquelinks" subsystem for review-in-liveview-with-ttl permalinks

2014-06-15 0.21.1

• ui, middleware: deployment aftermath fixes (setup.py dependencies, config.js woes)

2014-06-15 0.21.0

• middleware, ui: "opaquelinks" subsystem on top of JSON Web Tokens
• ui: use "opaquelinks" subsystem for generating inline links in liveview mode
• ui, middleware: major parameter fiddling overhaul
• ui: enable fanstatic minified mode

2014-06-13 0.20.1

• ui [fix]: don't rebuild comments everytime list gets focus
• ui, ux: improve post database wipe experience
• ui: fix document color indicator when document is just added to basket, without any score or dismiss flag set
• ui, ux: display activity indicator and permalink buttons in liveview

2014-06-13 0.20.0

• ui: disable autofocus of query textarea on page load
• ui, storage: refactor database import, export, reset
• ui, storage: introduce multi-tenancy by "context" query parameter
• ui, storage: fix localForage keys() bug
• ui, storage: add jquery.base64 library
• ui, storage: add stripped-down dataurl library
• ui: make review mode available via url parameter datasource=review
• ui: improve application configuration and bootstrapping
• ui, storage: export and import database to/from "data" URL scheme, see RFC 2397
• ui: permalink button for liveview mode
• ui: propagate state of (mode, context, project, datasource=ops) into query parameters of inline links

2014-06-12 0.19.0

• ui: improved application vs. project bootstrapping
• ui: improved quick notification helper
• ui, storage: database import
• ui, storage: improve backup format

2014-06-12 0.18.0

• ux: make the pdf open on shift+p
• ui, storage: update backbone-relational to b8ab71a449ff (2014-06-10)
• ui, storage: presumably fix object corruption woes with localforage.backbone
• ui, storage: comments plugin, alpha, also opens on "c" key
• ui, storage: update to latest localforage 3ef964cda96 for getting an array of all keys for backup feature
• js: add Blob.js and FileSaver.js for saving files locally without user interaction
• ui, storage: database export, database wipe

2014-06-09 0.17.0

• ui: color indicator for score/dismiss state
• ui: improve document header layout

• ux: improve hotkey assignments

  • right, left: navigate the tabs
  • shift+right, shift+left: navigate the drawings carousel
  • p: open the ops pdf
  • shift+e, shift+d: open espacenet re. depatisnet
  • alt+shift+e, alt+shift+d: open epo register re. dpma register
  • shift+c: open ccd viewer

2014-06-09 0.16.1

• ui: fix "review" regression
• ui: rename OPS => EPO, DEPATISnet => DPMA, adapt hotkeys

• ui: improve rating:

  • get rid of "added, but not rated" state
  • get rid of "plus" button, just leave "trash" button for removing an item

• ux: improve hotkey assignments
• ui: improve document header layout
• ui: improve rating widget layout

2014-06-09 0.16.0

• ux: new quick- and vanity urls

  • /publicationdate/2013-03-03/2013-04-03
  • /publicationdate/2014W10
  • /today, /week, /month, /year
  • /country/us
  • /cpc/"H04B7-15542"

• ux: link to espacenet worldwide (biblio data)
• ui: add library “jQuery Raty”
• ui: “dismissible" extension to “jQuery Raty”
• ui: rating widget for BasketEntryModel
• ui, storage: add title of selected document to BasketEntryModel

2014-06-08 0.15.0

• ui: add “notify.js”
• ui: improve basket, add BasketEntryModel
• ui: fix fulltext display, raw content nodes might not be lists
• ui: also record depatisnet queries, improved query recording in general
• ui: don’t use depatisnet as default datasource
• ui: fix highlighting edge case again
• ux: add jquery.viewport
• ux: hotkeys + and - for adding/removing the document in viewport to/from basket
• ux: snapped scrolling with spacebar

2014-06-07 0.14.0

• attempt to fix result list pdf export
• ui: move project chooser above basket
• ui: cql history chooser

2014-06-05 0.13.1

• ui: improve layout of publication date and application date
• ui: fix missing popover after switching inline detail view
• ui: disable button which shows basket entry count

2014-06-04 0.13.0

• ui: don't display application number
• ui: improve header title style
• ui: improvements to basket status- and action buttons/displays
• ui: fix: citation environment links didn't propagate project context
• ui: improve style of citation environment links
• ui: improve style of priority display
• ui: improve style of highlighting
• ui: improve display of classifications
• ui, middleware: display fulltext: description and claims
• ui: proper highlighting for description and claims
• ui: "Add all" action for adding the whole page of shown documents to the basket

2014-06-03 0.12.0

• limit citatory query to 10 items due to ops restriction
• ui: modify/extend citation link buttons
• ui: "new project" action
• ui: display number of entries in basket
• ui: improve classification display: add ipc and cpc classes
• ui: display priority claims
• ui: display application number

2014-06-02 0.11.0

• ui: propagate project context across inline query links
• ui: share basket via email
• ui: link to citatory documents

2014-05-26 0.10.4

• ui, storage: fix nasty bug with basket.remove operation

2014-05-26 0.10.3

• meta: add OpenSearch description
• ui, storage: improved robustness, honor asynchronous callback flow
• ui, storage: delete project
• ui: reposition and redesign project chooser
• ui: trigger project reload when window gets focus

2014-05-24 0.10.2

• ui, storage: [fix] automatically update the "project.modified" attribute when manipulating the basket

2014-05-24 0.10.1

• ui: make "modified" attribute humanly readable in project chooser widget
• ui, storage: automatically update the "project.modified" attribute when manipulating the basket

2014-05-24 0.10.0

• storage: update to recent localForage library
• storage: add backbone-relational library
• storage: introduce ProjectModel and ProjectCollection
• storage: introduce BasketModel linked to ProjectModel
• feature: record all queries made to the system
• feature: make the basket persistent
• ui: add date formatting library “moment.js” and helpers
• ui: add “bootstrap-editable” widget
• config change: cache searches for 6 hours
• ui, storage - add ProjectChooserView and accompanying mechanics - properly string project-/basket-relationships and -behaviors together - patch localforge.backbone.js to make things actually work (weird thing)

2014-05-24 0.9.0

• ui, middleware: propagate ops-specific fulltext fields to keyword highlighter
• ui: link to DEPATISnet PDF
• ui: prefer canonical epodoc values over original ones for parties (applicant, inventor) to increase search quality
• ui: enhance keyword highlighting: per-phrase vs. per-word
• ui: review action: just use single button above the query area
• ui: move basket submit button to the right side
• ui: show "current view count" and "real ops querystring" only in debug mode (by appending "&debug=true" to the url)
• ui: attempt to fix IE SVG problem: img declaration may have lacked "height" attribute
• ui: move "About CQL" away from main gui into help modal dialog (help prototype)
• ui: use magnifier icon for query submit button
• ui: stick query action buttons (transform, clear) to the right of the CQL field chooser
• ui: remove "Your selection" label, replace by placeholder on basket textarea
• ui: add placeholder to CQL field chooser
• ui: add “bootbox” library
• ui: add basket share button (dummy)

2014-05-21 0.8.1

• link javascript resources

2014-05-20 0.8.0

• ui: bind search to meta+return and ctrl+return keys
• ui: use explicit clipboard/query transformation (remove on.paste handler, add button)
• ui: use fixed name "ipsuite-pdf" for displaying the pdf
• ui: pagination: refactor into component
• ui: pagination: show only required paging entries, show nothing without results

• ui, middleware: enhance DEPATISnet integration

  • parse hit count from scraped response
  • fix page offset calculation
  • show original- and ops-queries
  • fix pagination problems in general
  • show count of items received from ops
  • scrape results with sort order: publication date, descending

• ui: properly propagate "datasource" query parameter, using sensible defaults, giving DEPATISnet priority
• ui: dpma- and epo-logos for datasource selector buttons
• ui: basket review: use the same mechanics as with DEPATISnet, i.e. splice list into bundles of 10 entries
• middleware: cache search queries for two hours
• ui: format total result count using jquery-autonumeric

• ui: add some hotkeys:

  • ctrl+shift+o: switch to datasource=ops
  • ctrl+shift+d: switch to datasource=depatisnet
  • ctrl+shift+r: switch to review mode

2014-05-15 0.7.4

• update jquery.hotkeys.js
• ui: remove "beta" badge
• ui: bind search to hyper+return and ctrl+return keys

2014-05-08 0.7.3

• DEPATISnet integration: more fixes

2014-05-08 0.7.2

• DEPATISnet integration: minor fixes

2014-05-08 0.7.1

• ui, middleware: proper DEPATISnet integration
• cache search queries for one hour

2014-05-07 0.7.0

• search at DPMA DEPATISnet: prototype
• ui: highlight "bi" search terms in abstract

2014-04-02 0.6.7

• fix query parameter backwards compatibility: ship_url vs. ship-url

2014-03-22 0.6.6

• fix switch to patentsearch.elmyra.de for /office urls

2014-03-22 0.6.5

• ui: drawings-carousel: request image information asynchronously to make result list display snappy again
• fix direct access url semantics in local development (hack)

2014-03-22 0.6.4

• fix direct access url semantics

2014-03-22 0.6.3

• ui: add "beta" badge to title
• ui: drawings-carousel: always request image information to display fully qualified "Drawing #1/2"
• ui: make widths of all widgets equal
• switch to patentsearch.elmyra.de
• better url semantics for direct access, e.g. /num/EP666666

2014-03-21 0.6.2

• refactor application layout on code level
• ui: refactor basket into solid marionette component
• ui: add localForage library
• ui: temporarily remove cql quick query builder helper actions
• ui: make pagination links black, not blue
• ui: fix link to CCD Viewer (upgrade from /CCD-2.0.0 to /CCD-2.0.4)
• ui: print/pdf: honor current query and pagesize

2014-03-21 0.6.1

• middleware: fix result pdf rendering by using http url instead of https

2014-03-16 0.6.0

• api: refactor dpma register jump mechanics and url
• ui: add link to CCD Viewer
• ui: enhanced pagination widget: add pagesize chooser and mechanics
• ui: separated metadata info widget from pagination widget
• ui: external link to DEPATISnet (bibliographic data)
• middleware: link to PDF to display inline, not as attachment
• ui: attempt to fix internet explorer 10, which doesn't scale the pdf icon properly
• middleware: lots of documents lack drawings, e.g. german utility documents (DE..U1) => use "docdb" format for image inquiry
• middleware: acquire first drawing from USPTO servers, if OPS lacks them
• ui: print mode layout
• middleware: export results as pdf using phantomjs

2014-03-16 0.5.1

• dev/prod: try to exclude development javascript sources from source package

2014-02-23 0.5.0

• ui: fix height-flickering of list entry when new drawing is lazy-loaded into carousel
• middleware: activate caching of generated pdf documents
• ui: make ship-mode=single-bibdata work again
• ui: integrate 3rd-party tools via iframe (parameter "embed-item-url")
• ui: query builder I: quick access to popular fields
• ui: better place for the activity spinner
• api/cql: automatically apply number normalization to "num" fields, too
• ui: query builder II: full cql field chooser
• ui: perform query when hitting hotkey "meta+return" in query form field
• ui: clipboard modifier intercepts when pasting text into empty query form field
• dev/prod: uglify main javascript resources

2014-02-21 0.4.2

• dev: fix .bumpversion.cfg

2014-02-21 0.4.1

• ui: click on document-number in header to navigate to this document
• ui: enhance pager, display active pagination entry, display current range
• ui: open drill-down links in external window
• ui: move arrow controls of carousel to bottom of image
• ui: center "Drawing #1" label below image
• ui: don't show "Drawing #1" label when there's no image
• ui: drawing carousel: show total number of drawings in status line
• dev: prepare automatic version bumping

2014-02-21 0.4.0

• api: add a little cql smartness: wrap cql query string with

  quotes if query contains spaces and is still unquoted

• api: enhance image information, publish via endpoint
• ui: carousel for drawings
• ui: display pager on top of and at bottom of resultlist
• ui: don't show pagers when there are no results yet
• ui: link to family information (INPADOC, OPS)
• ui: display cited references below abstract

2014-02-20 0.3.0

• middleware: create full pdf documents from single pages via ops only
• ui: offer full pdf document from multiple sources
• ui/middleware: apply links to applicants, inventors, ipc classes and publication date

2014-02-19 0.2.2

• middleware: add DPMAregister smart access subsystem
• api: publish DPMAregister smart access subsystem, e.g. /jump/dpma/register?pn=DE19630877
• ui: display link to uspto pair

2014-02-19 0.2.1

• ui/api: evaluate and display upstream error responses
• middleware: adjust image level while converting from tiff to png
• ui: remove (54) entry prefix
• ui: refactor header
• middleware: also cache output of tiff-to-png conversion for drawings
• ui: style header buttons inline with others (gray, not turquoise)
• ui: gray background, refactor query area
• ui: link to legal status information from various patent offices (European Patent Register, INPADOC legal status, DPMAregister)

2014-02-19 0.2.0

• ui: show alternative text when no drawing image is available instead of broken image symbol
• ui: download full pdf document from espacenet instead of having single-page images only
• ui: resize first drawing image to 457px width to avoid resizing in browsers
• ui/feature: "review" selected documents
• api/ui: propagate "numberlist" query parameter value into basket
• api/middleware: document-number normalization on patent-search endpoint for "pn=" attributes

• middleware: resource caching

  • search: 5 minutes
  • static: 1 year

2014-02-16 0.1.1

• pdf.svg problems: fix MANIFEST, fix setup.py

2014-02-16 0.1.0

• api: introduce new image kind "FullDocumentDrawing" which will return an url to a high resolution image ("FullDocument") of the first drawing page
• ui: major overhaul, move on from table-based to container-based listview
• ui: more appealing add-/remove-basket operation
• ui: format dates in ISO format
• ui: uppercase countrycodes
• ui: popovers for action buttons
• ui: add pdf icon
• ui: show parties (applicants, inventors) "original" value only, hide "epodoc" value
• ui: add page footer and product name
• ui: add tooltips and popovers
• ui: use english

2014-02-01 0.0.12

• api endpoint for retrieving fullimage documents as pdf
• ui: modal pdf viewer with paging

2014-01-14 0.0.11

• api endpoint for retrieving family publications in xml

2013-11-26 0.0.10

• add ops oauth client
• inline display first drawing

2013-11-25 0.0.9

• show result count in pagination area
• application structure refactoring and streamlining
• prepare inline display of first drawing

2013-11-12 0.0.8

• ship-mode=single-bibdata: rename "submit" form button name to "ship_action"

2013-10-24 0.0.7

• backpropagate current basket entries into checkbox state
• display "inventor" attribute
• add portfolio demo frameset
• add ship-mode=single-bibdata
• fix: be more graceful if applicants or inventors are missing from data
• renamed ingress query parameters ship_* to ship-*
• route refactoring
• ui refactoring: more responsive through "twitter bootstrap responsive css"

2013-10-14 0.0.6

• fix "abstract" parsing

2013-10-14 0.0.5

• fix packaging and deployment issues

2013-10-14 0.0.4

• upgrade to 'js.marionette==1.1.0a2'

2013-10-14 0.0.3

• moved js.marionette to github
• enhanced deployment code "make install" reg. versioning
• fix "abstract" parsing, e.g. @ WO2013148409A1
• applicant=ibm => cannot use method "join" on undefined
• neu: anmeldedatum
• simple static paging from 1-200, 25 each
• spinner icon for showing activity

2013-10-09 0.0.2

• changed production.ini port to 9999
• renamed js.underscore.string to js.underscore_string
• Makefile and fabfile.py for common sysop tasks
• renamed some ingress query parameters to "ship_*"
• cleaned up url parameter propagation

2013-10-09 0.0.1

• initial release

• pyramid web application with cornice webservice addon

• rest endpoint for querying EPO OPS REST service (ops-published-data-search)

• top-notch frontend ui foundation based on jquery, bootstrap, backbone marionette, fontawesome

• packaged some fanstatic javascript libraries:

  • js.marionette
  • js.underscore_string
  • js.jquery_shorten
  • js.purl

• textarea for cql query input

• shipping subsystem via basket textarea

• use "query" url parameter

• send "pragma: nocache" for static resources for now