Aurigin acquires Cartia

In a move to strengthen its intellectual property and innovation asset management capabilities, Aurigin Systems has acquired Cartia. The deal will allow Aurigin to enhance and more fully integrate ThemeScape mapping with its Aureka analytical capabilities. Aurigin adds the further improvements to ThemeScape will focus on providing more analytical sophistication to Aureka users built upon the intuitive terrain map interface and workflow-based interface.

Aurigin explains ThemeScape software uses proprietary techniques to automatically organize documents into topographical maps according to the similarity of their content. As a core analytical component of the Aureka software solution, ThemeScape information visualization technology powers the generation of graphics depicting the relationships between content in patents and other intellectual property, such as corporate documents and technical and scientific articles. The software is able to analyze the trends of thousands of patents and present the information in a visual landscape in real time for users to intuitively gain insight on the patents underlying content and relationship to one another.

ThemeScape maps, says Aurigin, serve as "visual tables of contents" to the information in Aurigin's patent database by showing users how a group of documents are related in a contour map of peaks and valleys, showing the intensity of activity around a concept. The maps also show the similarity between groups of documents by clustering them around peaks. The maps that result from the analyzed information are fully interactive allowing users to make more strategic and tactical decisions.