PDF and XML maintained in-browser

Tactility maintains PDF (fixed-layout) and subject-matter specific XML (reflow-layout) in-browser in order to ensure consistency and robustly anchor annotations. PDF changes are marked as standoff annotations atop the pages, ensuring legal basis. Reflow edits first modify an XML model (e.g. USPTO Red Book or EPO ST.36) and then update the HTML view. Users can activate <XML> to see the model with color highlighting of XML keywords.

Complex work units

Many processes require support for complex objects; Tactility supports "complex work units" required for the patent grant process:

• Tactility supports chemistry structure recognition and editing. The recognition system attains ~94% accuracy on raster patent documents and can achieve flawless capture for structures appropriately embedded in DOC/X. The recognition system can mark potential atom or bond inaccuracies as low confidence, which could be highlighted in the validation process. An integrated chemistry structure editor allows touch-up or de novo preparation.
• Tactility supports WYSIWYG math editing with LaTeX support. Tactility can straightforwardly provide toolbar controls with all the math elements offered in Microsoft Word.
• Tactility supports WYSIWYG table editing while maintaining the table model in CALS as required by patent XML schemas.
• The remaining CWU, biological sequences, can be straightforwardly supported as a special type of table

Real-Time Viewer

Tactility's team demonstrated a Real-Time Viewer (RTV) which provides fixed-layout viewing of arbitrarily large raster documents (patent documents can exceed 16,000 pages) while achieving EPO performance requirements of 2 sec document open and 100 ms page flip.

Complete audit trail

Tactility’s technology is designed for collaboration and thoughtful access control. All changes and feedback are logged.