This C# program is used for the 0SAUC0 course. It reads in one or more files retrieved from the Derwent II database containing patent information. The Patents folder contains the source code for this application, the compiled version can be found here:
https://github.com/Perryvw/Patents/releases/
In the result window on Derwent II, click on the arrow next to the 'Save to ...' box and choose 'Save to other file formats'. In the settings box that appears select a range to save (a maximum of 500 patents per query is allowed). In the Recorded Content setting choose Full record. In the File Format setting choose Tab-delimited (Win). The file that is downloaded can be opened by this program.
To analyze the downloaded data and click the 'Open input file(s)' button. In the window appearing, select one or multiple input files to be read. Once the files have loaded an analysis method can be chosen in the drop-down menu. Pressing Analyze will start the analysis. The output data will appear in a new notepad window once the analysis is done.