1. An automated method in a computing system for facilitating a search of intellectual property information from a corpus of patent related publications by automatically performing citation analysis upon each iteration of the 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, comprising: receiving an indication of source text and/or patent related publications as source input; automatically analyzing the indicated source input using semantic analysis of the indicated source input to automatically determine a first set of search-based keywords that are present in the indicated source text, wherein the automatically analyzing the source input to determine the first set of search-based keywords using semantic analysis parses the source in to determine grammatical usage to automatically determine the first set of search-based key words; from the automatically determined first set of search-based 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 determined first set of 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 some number of 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 providing indicators to the automatically 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.
1. An automated method in a computing system for facilitating a search of intellectual property information from a corpus of patent related publications by automatically performing citation analysis upon each iteration of the 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, comprising: receiving an indication of source text and/or patent related publications as source input; automatically analyzing the indicated source input using semantic analysis of the indicated source input to automatically determine a first set of search-based keywords that are present in the indicated source text, wherein the automatically analyzing the source input to determine the first set of search-based keywords using semantic analysis parses the source in to determine grammatical usage to automatically determine the first set of search-based key words; from the automatically determined first set of search-based 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 determined first set of 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 some number of 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 providing indicators to the automatically 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. 3. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically determining the initial set of patent related publications that include the determined first set of keywords further comprises: determining the initial set of patent related publications by determining, from the corpus, the patent related publications that each contain any one or more of the determined first set of keywords as most frequently used keywords.