We’re excited to announce that Patentcloud has upgraded to Solr 9 on April 15, 2025. This upgrade enhances our platform’s performance, scalability, stability, and security, offering users a faster and more reliable patent search experience.
🚀 Key Benefits of the Upgrade:
✅ Performance Boost
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Optimized query efficiency: With the Solr 9 upgrade, Patentcloud's query performance has been comprehensively enhanced. Even in high-frequency search scenarios, the system can now maintain more stable performance, minimizing severe delays or lags. Additionally, the efficiency of each search has been significantly improved, allowing users to retrieve the information they need faster.
✅ Patent-Specific Feature Vectors
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Enhanced semantic understanding and search capabilities: The system can now connect different words or even longer phrases with similar meanings, enabling the search engine to find documents that use different terms but express the same concepts. This will eventually extend to multi-language understanding. For example, "spinous process" and "interspinous" may refer to the same medical concept, and feature vectors can recognize this relationship and return documents containing both terms.
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Handling multiple meanings of words: The system can now distinguish the different meanings of the same word in different contexts. For instance, the word "apple" can refer to both the fruit and the company, and the feature vector can understand the query's intent based on context.
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Support for more complex queries: Users can now perform deeper and more precise searches, even involving multiple concepts or relationships.
✅ Enhanced Security
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Updated to the latest Java and Lucene versions: Addressing potential security vulnerabilities.
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Strengthened authentication and authorization mechanisms: Further ensuring user data security.
✅ New Features and Increased Scalability
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Support for more analytics and custom plugins: Enabling future product development, such as integrating semantic and keyword searches, image and semantic understanding, and more.
This upgrade lays a stronger technical foundation for Patentcloud, and we will continue to enhance platform features, offering innovative solutions that better meet user needs.
Thank you for your continued support and trust! Best regards,
The Patentcloud Team