1. An apparatus for identifying potential patent infringement, comprising: means for inputting information regarding a patent; a processing device configured to: identify at least one claim of the patent, parse the at least one claim to identify at least one term in the at least one claim, formulate a search query comprising the at least one term, automatically generate and transmit a natural language question to a chat room, obtain information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services from the chat room in response to the question, and perform a search of the information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services using the search query; and means for outputting result of the search.
1. An apparatus for identifying potential patent infringement, comprising: means for inputting information regarding a patent; a processing device configured to: identify at least one claim of the patent, parse the at least one claim to identify at least one term in the at least one claim, formulate a search query comprising the at least one term, automatically generate and transmit a natural language question to a chat room, obtain information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services from the chat room in response to the question, and perform a search of the information regarding at least one of a product, products, a service, and services using the search query; and means for outputting result of the search. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing device parses the text information of the patent in order to identify the claims of the patent.