Brian -- It is possible to do the first two things you ask. If you had a user enter in multiple patent numbers you could then initiate multiple searches, one for each, and return the results separately. Alternatively, you could put them all into one query and find documents that reference each patent number. To search by patent number you would want to do a query like this: "patent:1247412". Here is more about the syntax for patent searches: http://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html. Also, as you have noted, doing searches for regular text works.
However, getting direct links to the PDFs isn't supported in our API. -Ben On Jan 2, 12:34 pm, Brian <brian.e.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's what I would like to be able to do using the patent search api: > - User can enter one or more patent numbers and/or patent application > publication numbers as the search query > - or - > - User enters text for reqular patent search (like it's done right > now) > > - then - > > - The displayed search results include a direct link to the PDF's for > the patent/publications (in addition to the image, title, etc shown by > default) > > Is this possible with the present API? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-AJAX-Search-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-ajax-search-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
