Common System Architecture (xen-IP Range)

All of the products in the xen-IP range are built to a common architecture and are fully compatible with each other.

All systems are fully scalable across:

Within an installation, different types of users can be accommodated - consider a number of scenarios.

  1. Large national technology company who have a number of Patent Attorneys and a number of Trade Mark Professionals - there is minimal interaction between the Patent and Trade Mark departments. There is also a legal department who manage the licence agreements.
  2. A private practice who have a small number of IP professionals who do both Patents and Trade Marks. Their clients frequently request information which they could themselves extract from the system.
  3. A medium size R&D company who have a portfolio of patents and use external agents for filing and prosecution, however they want to 'keep track' their own portfolio. They do not have any IP professionals.
  4. International company have a large IP department at HQ but have smaller IP departments in 2 other major countries. There is another single IP user in a 3rd country.
  5. A start-up private practice consisting of a single IP professional and two support staff.
  6. The private practice in scenario (5) grows and starts to manage Trade Marks.
  7. A company has a large number of people (either internal, external or both) who require read-only access to the database, possibly restricted to data for certain business areas with sensitive data, such as payments, being restricted.

Scenario (1)
The installation would consist of a single server installation. The Patent Attorneys would have xen-PAT Professional installed. The Trade Mark Professionals would have xen-TM Professional installed. Other people, such as the Commercial or Product Managers, would have xen-ProView Professional installed so that they can have read only access onto the main database.  If the organisation has a Web Server, xen-Web could be used in place of xen-ProView Professional to provide read only access.
The legal department have a couple of copies of xen-Comm Professional to enable them to manage the licence agreements, all other users who have Xensis software installed are given read-only access to the commitments data. There are a couple of other users in the legal department who want view access to the commitments data and they are given xen-CommView Professional (or they could use xen-Web as described above).

Scenario (2)
The installation would consist of a single server installation. The IP professionals would have xen-IP Professional installed. This would allow them to manage both Patent and Trade Marks. Periodically they extract the data on a client-by-client basics and send to their clients. The clients have the viewer software and so can access their own local copy of the database in read only mode.

Scenario (3)
The installation would consist of a single server installation. They have two copies of xen-PAT Professional which allows them to enter data supplied by the agent and Commercial/Product Managers within their organisation. Standard monthly reports are generated, output to Word, and then circulated internally via the email system. Some Commercial/Product Managers want instant access to the data so are licensed to use xen-ProView Professional to give read-only access.  If the organisation has a Web Server, xen-Web could be used in place of xen-ProView Professional to provide read only access.

Scenario (4)
The installation would consist of multiple server installations. Servers are installed at HQ and in the 2 other countries. They each have their own data and a copy of each others data available locally. This data is updated each evening. For the single user in the 3rd country, they access the HQ server over the wide area network. Certain data, such as list of attorneys, is centrally managed and replicated frequently. Each user has a copy of xen-PAT Professional and other people such as Commercial or Product Managers have copies of the ProView Professional installed.  If the organisation has a Web Server, xen-Web could be used in place of xen-ProView Professional to provide read only access.

Scenario (5)
The start-up practice cannot afford to invest heavily in IT infrastructure. The installation would consist of a local network that is based on peer-to-peer networking. The database would reside on the most powerful PC. To keep costs down they have a single copy of xen-PAT Professional to allow them to generate documentation, correspondence, pay annuities electronically and run the document store. Although they only have a single licensed copy, both support staff will share this PC. The system allows each user to have a login so that proper security and history is kept in the database. The practice also licence a copy of the viewer so that the attorney always has instant access to the data. After a time a second licence is bought allowing the second support staff to access the database from their own PC.

Scenario (6)
The private practice in scenario (5) grows. Another professional joins the practice - they also manage Trade Marks. The practice grows and now consists of two professionals and three support staff. They have bought a server which runs other applications. The system is to be moved to the server to be run in client-server mode. They have two support staff who do Patents only and the third does combined Patent and Trade Marks. Both professionals want on-line read-only access to the data. They already have 1 copy of xen-ProView Professional and 2 copies of xen-PAT Professional. They need in total 2 copies of xen-ProView Professional, 2 copies of xen-PAT Professional, and 1 copy of xen-IP Professional. Two more licences are required, 1 copy of xen-ProView Professional and 1 copy of xen-IP Professional. Moving from the peer-to-peer model to the client-server model did not require any data migration.

Scenario (7)
In this scenario, the company would need a Web Server to support xen-Web with at least one user with a product from the xen-IP range allowing data to be entered and updated.  The read only users could then view data for the business areas they were allowed and the types of data that they had been granted access.  This scenario would suit the following: