Advanced searching

To display the Advanced Search dialog box, click Advanced in the Researcher query box.

Use advanced search to filter your results. Some examples of more typical filter options appear below:

• Publication or modification date (formats)

  To filter your results by publication or modification date, use the date format that corresponds to your locale, or the settings in your operating system and browser that not only specifies your language preferences, but also specifies your region. Examples of the date format to use for your regional setting are displayed in the publication and modification fields, in the advanced search dialog box.

  Filter your search results by a specific date or more broadly by a range of dates.

  You can include time formats when you search by publication date. The following are examples of date formats that correspond to certain regional settings (date formats are not limited to these examples):

  Example One:

  If your locale is set to United States in your operating system and browser, then you can filter results by using an American date format: mm/dd/yyyy (03/21/2003).

  Filter your search by a date (the examples below display the American date format):

  • Year (2014)
  • Month and Year (03/2014)
  • Day, Month, and Year (03/21/2014)

  Filter your search by a range of dates (the examples below display the American date format):

  • Year – Year (2000 - 2014)
  • Year – Month and Year (2010 – 03/2014) or  Month and Year – Year (03/2010 - 2014)
  • Day, Month, Year – Year (03/21/2003 – 2014) or Year – Day, Month, Year (2013 – 03/21/2014)
  • Day, Month, Year – Day, Month, Year (03/21/2003 4/21/2014

  Example Two:

  If your locale is set to Germany in your operating system and browser, then you can filter results by using a European date format: dd.mm.yyyy (21.03.2003) 

  Filter your search by a date (the examples below display the European date format):

  • Year (2014)
  • Month and Year (03.2014)
  • Day, Month, and Year (21.03.2014)

  Filter your search by a range of dates (the examples below display the European date format):

  • Year – Year (2000 - 2014)
  • Year – Month and Year (2010 – 03.2014) or  Month and Year – Year (03.2010 - 2014)
  • Day, Month, Year – Year (21.03.2003 – 2014) or Year – Day, Month, Year (2013 – 21.03.2014
  • Day, Month, Year – Day, Month, Year (21.03.2003 – 14.12.2010)

  Example Three:

  If your locale is set to Japan in your operating system and browser, then you can filter results by using a Japanese date format: yyyy/mm/dd (2012年6月30)

  Filter your search by a date (the examples below display the Japanese date format):

  • Year (2014)
  • Month and Year (2012年12月)
  • Day, Month, and Year (2012年12月02日)

  Filter your search by a range of dates (the examples below display the European date format):

  • Year – Year (2010年 - 2012年)
  • Year – Month and Year (2010年 – 2012年12月) or  Month and Year – Year (2012年12月- 2014年)
  • Day, Month, Year – Year (2012年6月30日- 2014年) or Year – Day, Month, Year (2013年 2014年6月30日)
  • Day, Month, Year – Day, Month, Year (2012年12月02日 - 2012年12月31日)
• File extension (for example, .docx, .pdf, .xls)
• Folder path (examples)

  Goldfire matches full paths or fragments of paths. Goldfire also matches slashes and backslashes as equivalent delimiters, for example, D:\Examples/QA Validations\Cases

  Path	Query	Matches?
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	Examples	Yes
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	Examples\QA	Yes
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	ples\Q	No
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	Validations\Cases	Yes
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	A Validations\Cases	No
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	QA Validations Cases	Yes
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	Validations\Cases QA	Yes
  D:\Examples\QA Validations\Cases	Cases\Validations	No

• Site or domain (examples)

  Goldfire will match complete URLs or fragments of URLs. For example:

  Path	Query	Matches?
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	com	Yes
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	.com	Yes
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	example	No
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	Example.com	Yes
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	ample.com	No
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	www com	No
  http://www.example.com/QA Validations/Cases	Example com	No

   

To search for a filter in Advanced Search dialog box

Select one or more Advanced Search filters with which to build a query using the Advanced Search dialog box.

1. To the right of the search box, click Advanced to display the Advanced Search dialog box. Filters you already enabled appear in the Filters area.

• Click X to the right of a given filter box to remove it.

2. Click Add Filter at the bottom of the Advanced Search dialog box to insert the next available filter option at the bottom of the list of filter options currently in the Advanced Search dialog box, and then click the drop-down arrow to the right of the inserted field and select the desired search filter from the list of unused filters as depicted below.
   
3. Either click the desired search filter to add to the Advanced Search dialog box directly, or type the filter name in the Filter search box at the top of the list popup to filter the available terms accordingly. The query-type-ahead feature provides suggestions for possible filters based on what you type.
   
   The filter options from which you can select here are specified for all regular Goldfire users by a Goldfire user with administrative privileges using Goldfire Administrator mode.
4. After clicking to select the desired search filters, click outside of the Search Filter List popup to return to the Advanced Search dialog box.

• Click ? to the right of a given filter option that appears in the Advanced Search dialog box to display a definition of the filter option in a tooltip.

Boolean expressions

Use the following Boolean operators in any field. Boolean operators must be enclosed in angle brackets ( < > ):

<AND>
<OR>
<NOT>

To build a complex query with additional Boolean logic, click Query Building mode, and then type your query in the Query box.

A query can use either a keyword, for example, Publication Date, or a keyword identifier, for example, PD. Goldfire automatically transforms keyword identifiers into the metadata field name after submitting the query.

Supported Patent Codes, which can be used as metadata identifiers are described in the Supported Patent Fields topic. Any custom identifiers populated by GoldfireGoldfire connectors can also be used in a search.

• To specify any operator, type < , and then click the operator to add to the query.
• To specify a metadata field, use the <IN> operator. For example, type <IN> Publication Date.
• To specify a metadata field identifier, use the identifier after <IN> operator. For example, type <IN> PD, which means the same sense as <IN> Publication Date​.

PDF searching

Refine a PDF documents search using specific filters such as Table or Figure. Select the filters you want to search by, followed by additional keywords to locate relevant PDF documents. The following are valid fields to search by in PDF documents:

• Title
• Heading
• Table of Contents
• Abstract
• Table
• Table Cell
• Table Caption
• Figure
• Figure Caption
• Figure Annotation
• Footnote
• Reference
• Index Term

You must update to the most recent version of Goldfire, and index (or re-index) your content, for Goldfire to recognize these new fields for PDF searching.

Patent Searching

Refine your search of patent documents using specific filters such as Abstract or Assignee. Select the filters to search by followed by additional keywords to locate relevant patent documents. The following are fields that you can search by in patent documents:

• Abstract
• Assignee
• Application Date
• Application Number
• Background Summary
• Claims
• Detailed Description
• Drawing Description
• Primary Examiner
• Assistant Examiner
• Inventor
• Nonpatent References
• Patent Agent
• Publication Number
• Title
• IPC Classes
• CPC Classes

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