Verhaegen, P.-A.D'hondt, J.Vertommen, J.Dewulf, S.Duflou, J. R.Rajkumar RoyEssam Shehab2009-10-012009-10-0120092009-03-31P.-A. Verhaegen, J. D'hondt, J. Vertommen, S. Dewulf, J. R. Duflou, Interrelating Products through Properties via Patent Analysis, Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Design Conference – Competitive Design, Cranfield University, 30-31 March 2009, pp252978-0-9557436-4-1http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3734Organised by: Cranfield UniversityTRIZ emerged from systematic analysis of patents, a process involving the mapping of innovative patents to extracted generic problems and generic inventive principles. During problem solving, TRIZ users, relying on their TRIZ skills, map their specific problem to a generic problem, solve it via TRIZ tools, and map back to a specific solution. A methodology and algorithm are proposed that, through identification of specific word categories in patents, analysis of term-term correlation data, and data mining techniques, automatically identify similar products, and properties relating or differentiating products. This algorithm can quantifiably guide creativity efforts and aid in patent portfolio management.enCopyright: Cranfield University 2009Systematic InnovationTRIZCreativityPatent AnalysisData miningConference paper