30. A computer-readable computer memory medium selected from the group consisting of: application-specific integrated circuits, standard integrated circuits, field-programmable gate arrays, complex programmable logic devices, hard disks, and memory, wherein the computer-readable computer memory medium is storing or executing instructions that, when executed, controls a computer processor to facilitate patent related searches from a patent corpus of patent related publications, by automatically performing citation analysis upon each iteration of a patent related search, the citation analysis comprising citations from a respective face of each patent publication, which lists backward references as well as forward references to patents and/or patent publications, by performing a method comprising: receiving an indication of input text and/or patent related publications as input; automatically analyzing the indicated input using semantic analysis of the indicated source input to automatically extract a first set of search-based keywords and/or phrases that are present in the indicated input, wherein the automatically analyzing the indicated input using semantic analysis parses the indicated source input to determine grammatical usage to automatically extract the first set of search-based keywords and/or phrases; from the automatically determined first set of keywords, performing an initial search iteration automatically, and wherein the initial search iteration is performed without additional user input, by performing the steps of: automatically determining an initial set of patent related publications that include the automatically extracted first set of search-based keywords; automatically determining a correlated set of patent related publications that are correlated to the initial set of patent related publications using automatic citation analysis of the initial set of patent related publications, wherein the correlated set is determined to be one or more patent related publications from the corpus that have unique citation relationships to any one of the patent related publications of the initial set, and wherein the correlated set is automatically sorted based upon the correlated patent related publications that involve the most number of citation paths with the initial set of patent related publications; and automatically extracting from the automatically determined initial set of patent related publications a set of related keywords not found in the first set of keywords or in the source input; and presenting indicators to the determined initial set and the sorted determined correlated set of patent related publications and the set of related keywords as output from the initial search iteration.
43. The computer-readable computer memory medium of claim 30 , further comprising: facilitating providing of indications of at least one of keywords found in the input, related keywords based upon the initial set of patent related publications and/or the correlated set of patent related publications, and/or categories extracted from the initial set of patent related publications and/or the correlated set of patent applications.