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Search Strategy

Search date: 14 Sept, 2006

Database: Micropatent (PatSearch Fulltext)

Search Strings, Hits & Scope:

  • Search I
    • Query: (Life) AND (Insurance OR Reinsurance OR Polic* OR Annuit*) - 532 hits
    • Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date - 2000 till date
    • Databases: US, EP, WO, JP, DE, GB and FR (common for all)
  • Search II
    • Query: (computer) and (Insurance OR Reinsurance) and (Polic* OR Annuit*) – 511 hits
    • Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date 1991 till date
  • Search III
    • Query: (Insurance OR Reinsurance OR polic* or Annuit*) limited by assignee (Insurance OR Bank) – 345 hits
    • Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date – 1991 till date – 345 hits
  • Total # of records - Search I + Search II + Search III = 1239 (excluding duplicates and family members but includes off-target)

Note: All search hits exclude family members and duplicate patent records








Market data - Insurance sector

  • Insurance and risk management is an immense global industry. In America alone, the insurance business employs about 2.5 million people
  • Life and health insurance in the United States will be about a $725 billion in gross revenues business in 2006, compared to only about $500 billion in 2002
  • U.S. life insurance firms hold about $3.8 trillion in assets
  • Personal lines comprise another vast sector of insurance. For example, private passenger automobile insurance will be about a $172 billion annual premium market in the U.S. for 2006
  • Homeowners insurance is about a $50 billion market
  • Property and Casualty insurance premiums will total about $450 billion in the U.S. for 2006

Year wise IP activity

  • Graph depicts IP activity based on publication year
  • Trend indicates high IP activity during 2002 followed by sudden fall during 2003, since then recovering gradually
Assignee wise IP activity

Assignee wise IP activity

  • Graph depicts assignee and number of patents to their credit
  • Assignees having single patent record depicted in table
Assignee wise IP activity

Country wise IP activity

  • Graph indicates IP activity based on priority country
  • Maximum number of patent records filed in United States (506) followed by Japan (314) and Australia (9)
  • Country code
Assignee wise IP activity

Distribution of patents - Based on insurance type

  • 95 patents have been analyzed and categorized based on type of insurance
  • For definitions follow the link
  • Number in () indicates # of patents
  • Trend - Top insurance filing sectors
    • Maximum number of patents file under life insurance category (39) followed by
    • Automobile insurance (26) and
    • Property insurance (7)
Distribution of patents - Level-I Analysis

Distribution of patents - Based on activity

  • Above 95 patents further analyzed for more granularity to project various patterns involved
  • Trend based on various activities under insurance:
    • Maximum patent filed on insurance information management system (23) followed by
    • Insurance payment process (21) and on
    • Insurance selling system and various selling parameters (15)
Distribution of patents - Level-II Analysis

Overall Trend - Based on insurance sector and respective activities

Automobile Insurance

  • Customize insurance policy and customized insurance premium for different cars and people
  • Keeping uninsured from driving

Casualty insurance

  • Automatic accident reporting system of an insured person

Health insurance

  • Pharmacy benefits calculator – selects a cost effective insurance plan form the group of plans

General Insurance

  • Capability modeling – Computerized, customized and flexible insurance accepting, declining and design system
  • Contract management –
    • Converting current insurance contract to newly launch insurance terms
    • System for decreasing insurance – Computer program calculates point based on the transaction data
    • Reducing insurance policy issuing time by automating assessment processing - Application contents are automatically assessed after checking predefined conditions on applicant terminal
  • Real-time insurance coverage verification system
  • Online policy and insurance portfolio analysis for greater value and low risk – Analyzing data of present and proposed insurance policies and provides user comparative output for different policies
  • Automated insurance processing – processes (mainly verifies) current status of insurance policies
  • Risk assessment system – evaluates history of natural/man made disasters in a particular geographical area and sets insurance premium
  • Insurance selling system – online auction for life settlement and vertical transactions
  • Straight through processing – Insurance policy issuance and management system

Life Insurance

  • Annuity – Automated benefit scheme administration apparatus
  • Package – Selling other services (funeral plan) along with life insurance
  • Retirement – Computer based retirement planning and income arrangement system

Property insurance

  • GPS Mobile insurance system – Monitoring current location and condition