Cipher

An introduction to Cipher

A walk through of Cipher with a focus on the Competitive Intelligence and Tech Trends workflows

How to navigate Cipher

About Cipher 2FA (2-factor authentication)

Laura Smith

Patrick Curry

Introduction to Cipher, report types, and understanding the output

Getting Started.

Where should I start my report in Cipher?

Starting a report

New Report Tile

Search multiple parts of Cipher in one click from the multi-search tile

Quick Search & Similar Family searching

Introduction to Cipher

How to create a global landscape report using Cipher classifiers

Global Landscape Report

Global Landscape Reports

Powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques applied to patent searching

What is a Cipher Classifier?

How to create a classifier report of selected organisations or portfolios

Organisation & Classifier Report

How to create a Cipher report from a patent upload

Patent Upload Report

Supported formats for patent upload

What is the UTT and where should I use it?

Universal Technology Taxonomy

Classify selected portfolios - supervised machine learning

Classify Patents

Understand how technology clusters are generated and named, including unrelated and miscellaneous clusters

What is Cipher Clustering?

How to create a clustered report of selected organisations or portfolios

How to create a Clustered report

What is included within the unrelated cluster?

What is the Unrelated Cluster?

How to analyse the Unrelated part of a portfolio

Exploring the Unrelated Cluster

What is included in the miscellaneous cluster and how do I see the clusters grouped within this?

What is the Miscellaneous Cluster?

Exploring the Miscellaneous Cluster

Separate a technology cluster

How to create a clustered report of a selected organisation, and see how other portfolios read onto that

How to Cluster to a target portfolio

Cluster selected portfolios - unsupervised machine learning

Cluster Patents

What is the Boolean Search tool and how do I use it?

Advanced search guide with example queries

Supported fields and queries for boolean searching in Cipher

Starting with a boolean search query or boolean operator

Boolean Search Report

The unrelated, group by owner and multiple classifier report options and more

Advanced Report Options

Decide whether to group into mutually exclusive technologies or allow overlapping technologies

Allow Overlapping Technologies

How to edit the parameters of your report, the report name or take a subset of data into a new report

Editing your report

Options to filter your report by organisation, technology, territory & time

Report filtering options

Filter your charts to your selected tagged metrics for example, geography combined with cost

Chart filtering options

How to customise your view, and create a saved chart set for any report

Saved Chart Sets

How to access all of the data of your report, and how to export it

Cipher families view and export

How to interpret the data contained within the detailed families view of your report

How to interpret the Families View

Apply filters in your report to narrow your results using the Patent Families List

Filtering the data view within your report

What is family tagging & what does it help with?

Patent Family Tagging

How to create and share custom patent family tags

Creating & Managing Tags

Navigating and Editing your report

Similar Family Searching

How to create a new report from filtered data

Taking a subset of data into a new report

What is a Cipher organisation set and why should I use them?

Cipher Organisation Sets

Combining report options such as a patent upload with a search for similar organisations

Combining Report Options

How Cipher identifies 'Similar' and 'Largest Relevant' organisations

Portfolio recommendations in Cipher

When and how to use the Custom Set Theory tool in Cipher

Custom Set Theory

Custom clustered report feature. Rename and customise Cipher technology clusters.

Introduction to Cipher

Navigating and Editing your report

Custom reports and combining data