Peer-to-Patent System Status

System outage March 13

The Peer to Patent system infrastructure was down briefly at 7:45pm on March 13 due to an unknown cause.  The system is now backonline

Feb 16 downtime

The Peer-to-Patent system is has been down intermittently from 10pm Feb 15 PST until now (2pm PST) due to an unknown technical problem. Efforts to recover the system are underway.

Spam from "peertopatent.org"

On Sunday January 27 it appears that a spammer began using "peertopatent.org" as a return address for spam that is being generated. At this time we do not have any indication that these messages originate from within our email system. It is likely that they are from a spammer that is spoofing return addresses from the peertopatent.org domain. 

If there are issues related to this spam that you think require our project attention, please send an email message to  info AT peertopatent.org and the technical team will determine if we can resolve the problem.

Thank you

Eric
Peer to Patent technical team

Nov 4 Release Notes

On Nov 4 a minor enhancement release was completed for the Peer-to-Patent system.

This release contains numerous minor enhancements including the following:
- Redesigned home page layout; move videos to the home page
- Addition of Japanese language video
- Enhancements to expiration reminders for missing prior art
- Remove expiration reminder for issued U.S. patents
- Support for upload of additional prior art file type: TXT, PS, TEXT, ODF
- Other bug fixes

August 29 Release Completed

The Peer-to-Patent system software was updated August 29 and again on September 4.

Included in this release:

• Profiles now display more information about invitations sent and received. This information appears in your own profile only. The system will now show who you have sent invitations to, who you have received invitations from, and the status of those invitations.
• Added an archived applications list, which will be populated after the first applications reach the end of their review period.
• Changed links to applications so that they utilize the Pre-Publication Grant Number instead of an internal database identifier
• Other internal-use changes to support administration of the pilot.

August 1 Release completed

A minor system upgrade was completed August 1.

Changes and new features include:

• The appearance and placement of the hover boxes (floating popup text) has been improved.
• When prior art is edited, the prior art detail page is now marked with a visible timestamp.
• The count of annotations is now visible from the prior art list. Annotations differ from discussion comments in that they are forwarded to the USPTO. This change makes it easier to view the annotations.
• When you click on the affiliation from the profile, the user list is now sorted alphabetically.
• Allow much longer list of Publications on the user profile.
• The "Discuss this Claim" button automatically creates a link to the claim and inserts that into the comment input box.
• Adjustment to how invitations are tracked.
• Improved error handling for unusual registration situations.

Updated Analytics 7.17.07

In the first month since the launch of Peer-to-Patent on June 15 (www.peertopatent.org):

1078 people have signed up to be reviewers.
Reviewers have posted 32 instances of prior art for 7 applications.
There have been 95,448 page viewsto the website from 15,718 visitors in 100 countries.

There are currently 7 applications available for public review:

Microsoft Application: "Off-line Economies for Digital Media"
IBM Application 11/290893: "Database Staging Area Read-Through or Forced Flush with Dirty Notification"
IBM Application 11/304021: "System and Method for Migrating Databases"
Red Hat Application 11/164393: "Cooperative Mechanism for Efficient Application Memory Allocation"
Intel Application 11/286585: "Register Tracking for Speculative Prefetching"
Intel Application 11/291378: "Stack Tracker"
HP Application 11/286554: "User Selectable Management Alert Format"
GE Application 11/301399: "Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Providing Status of a Process"

We welcome anyone who would like to sign up as either an applicant or reviewer. Prospective applicants must have their patent applications classified in USPTO Technology Center 2100 in order to be eligible and must file an "Applicant's Consent to Third-Party Comments in Published Applications and Consent to Pilot Participation" form (available on the USPTO website at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/peerpriorartpilot/consent.pdf). However, once a patent application is deemed eligible for participation in Peer-to-Patent, the invention will be reviewed out of turn within 1 year.

Signing up to be a reviewer is easy, with new improvements being made to the site's registration page. Those interested in the becoming reviewers can sign up by visiting www.peertopatent.org and filling out the registration form.

Enhancements have also been made to the Peer-to-Patent site to make participation even easier, including support for email and RSS alerts. The new alerts allow subscribers to be notified when a new application of interest has been posted to the site. Participants can also sign up to receive notifications about new postings for each specific application via RSS and email.

There are a number of videos posted to the site (www.peertopatent.org/video) intended to educate reviewers about prior art. These include a video from former USPTO Director Todd Dickinson, a tutorial on how to use Peer-to-Patent, and many, many more.

95,448 page views
19,878 visits
15,718 unique visitors
Average 4.79 pages per visit

Size of Community: 1078 registered users

Browsers:
Firefox and Internet Explorer = 88% of traffic

Operating Systems:
73.45% Windows
15.54% Linux
10.46% Macintosh

Traffic:
71.06% referrals, 25.68% Direct Traffic

Traffic Breakdown:
19.32% groklaw.net
11.62% slashdot.org and yro.slashdot.org
9.23% spectrum.ieee.com
Others:
IBM, Patently-O, HP, metafilter, IT Toolbox, engadget, google.

Analytics Visuals:

Analytics Overview PDF

Peer-to-Patent Website Traffic PDF

OS/Browser Analytics

Peer-to-Patent Traffic by Country PDF

Peer-to-Patent Traffic by State PDF

July 17 Upgrade completed

A system upgrade was completed on July 17.

Key features of this release are:
- Added credits to a video
- Updated a video
- The video selection from the home page link is now randomly selected
- On various pages, if prompted to login, the system will return to the correct page after login
- Improved display of annotations and prior art relevance for quote and ampersand characters
- Increased the font size of the post comment link on the discussion page, and similar links on several pages
- Fixed several problems related to user registration and login
- Further improvements to page caching and elimination of certain errors

Known issue:
- When posting a comment, if you post a comment twice, the original comment is not cleared out. We will fix this in the next release.

July 9 System Upgrade Completed

Features in this release:
- Fix page caching problems related to Annotations and Editing Prior Art
- Add links to various blogs on the Activity page
- Tweak layout of RSS feed for applications
- Add Explanation / Key to home page Activity Map

System upgraded planned for July 9

The system will be upgraded on July 9 at approximately 10:30pm PST, for maintenance.