Seen & Unseen

The Seen/unseen functionality is a way in Quartet to identify patent families which they have already reviewed.  Any family that is viewed for longer than three seconds in Detail view will be marked as “seen” for all previous and future queries within the same project.  

Seen/Unseen on Timeline

On the Timeline, “seen” and “unseen” numbers for all search queries will update as previously unseen families are reviewed regardless of the query in which the result was reviewed. 

“Seen” and “unseen” data is saved to each individual project, so deleting a specific search query will not remove those families from being marked as seen. Resetting the entire Timeline, however, will reset seen/unseen tracking. 

Because “seen” and “unseen” data is per project, if a family is reviewed in Project A, and then in Project B the same family is returned as a result, it will still be marked as “unseen” in Project B as it has not been reviewed in Project B.

Seen/Unseen in Results View

Seen/unseen functionality can also be found in Results view. Within Results view, there are three tabs sorting the families into “All results,” “Seen,” and “Unseen”. Selecting one of these tabs will change the view so that only the associated results are shown.

The number of Seen/unseen results will update as families are viewed for long enough to be flagged as seen, however, the tab itself will not update unless Results view is left for that search string, then subsequent returns will have updated seen/unseen tabs. This is to prevent confusion with families moving around while reviewing results. 

Additionally, families that are "unseen" will have a bolded title in Results view, while "seen" families will have an non-bolded title.

Reference seen/unseen status may be changed both individually as well as en masse. To do so: hover over a reference within Results view > select the three-dot “actions” button for each reference > toggle the individual reference from seen/unseen.

The “All results” button will mark either all results or a selected subset of results as seen/unseen.