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title: Create a Patent Portfolio Interconnection Map | IPVision
description: Patent Portfolio Interconnection Map instructions for IPVision's patent research and patent analysis software offerings.
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### **Create a Patent Interconnection Map**

 IPVision's proprietary patent maps are visual representations of relationships between patents.

Patent Interconnection Maps show the patent citation references among a group of patents and only among those patents.

Patent experts and research by IPVision and others indicate that portfolios which are highly interconnected may signal that the company holding these patents is building a strong portfolio, with one patent building off and supporting others.

# Three Steps to a Patent Interconnection Map

> **1. ****Identify the base patents or portfolio through an existing list or patent search**

> ![Patent Search Screen Example from patent software - IPVision Advantage and See-the-forest.com](https://info.ipvisioninc.com/hs-fs/file-2819069377-png/images/stf_-_search_snapshot1.png)

> **2. From the Workbench - select Mapping -> Interconnection Map**

> ![Patent Portfolio Interconnection Map Instructions in patent free software by IPVision](https://info.ipvisioninc.com/hs-fs/file-2819069572-png/images/stf_-_patent_interconnection_map_menu.png)
> 
> **3. Explore the patent interconnection map using the Viewer Window or by hovering over individual patents  **![Patent Portfolio Interconnection Map example of Financial Engines | Generated by free patent software Offered by IPVision](https://info.ipvisioninc.com/hs-fs/file-2819069587-png/images/patent_interconnection_map_-_financial_engines_example_-_by_ipvision.png)

IPVision Advantage and See-the-Forest support iterative patent analysis and patent mapping.

If you identify a patent (or patents) of interest, right-click on it to obtain the patent document, research status and title, or create another single patent landscape map.

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