Feature highlight: Recurring Search

The Recurring Search feature on InnScience helps you stay up to date with new patents and publications without having to repeat the same search over and over. Instead of manually checking for updates every few days or weeks, you can now set your saved searches to run automatically on a schedule. InnScience will re-run your query and update your feed with any new results that match your original filters.

How It Works:

1. First, run a search on InnScience like you normally would - for example, “graphene coatings” in patent abstracts from the last 12 months. 
2. Click the option Save Search. 
3. In your Workspace, click the three dots next to Techlink and press Recurrent Search Research. 
4. Pick how often you want the search to update. For example - 4 times a day!
   
5. InnScience will automatically re-run the same search at the interval you chose and only show you new results that weren’t in the previous batch.
6. You’ll find the new items in your results feed, clearly labeled by update.

That’s it. The search will now run in the background without you doing anything else.

Why It’s Useful

This feature is meant for people who are tracking a specific topic, company, or technology area over time. You might not need the same search every single day — but you do need to know when something new shows up. Recurring Search is a way to do that without wasting time.

Here are a few examples where it helps:

- Patent Monitoring: If you’re watching what a competitor is patenting (e.g., “Apple AND optical sensor”), you can get notified every week if they publish something new.

- Emerging Technologies: If you’re following a topic like “quantum dot solar cells,” new papers or patents might only come out once a month. A recurring monthly search keeps you updated without flooding your feed.

• - Client or Internal Projects: If you're supporting a research team or client, you can set up their core topics as recurring searches and stay on top of their fields automatically.
  
  

Technical Details

• Recurring searches keep the same filters you originally used (e.g., keywords, date ranges, jurisdictions, assignees, etc.). Each time the search runs, it compares the new results to what you already received and removes duplicates. You can even edit or delete recurring searches at any time through the “Saved Searches” tab. Finally, if your search has no new results during a run, it simply skips the update.
  
  

A Final Quick Example

Let’s say you're working on a report about hydrogen fuel cells. You want to make sure you’re not missing new patents in that space while you write.

1. You search for “hydrogen fuel cell” in patent titles and abstracts, limited to Japan and the US, from the past 6 months.
2. You save it and make it a weekly recurring search.
3. Every week, InnScience re-runs that search and sends you any new results that match - without including patents you’ve already seen.
4. When something new comes in, it’s automatically added to your feed under that search title.
5. Now you’re covered!

Why We Built This

Many of our users are already doing long-term research, portfolio scans, or tech landscaping. But most databases only let you run static searches, which means  you have to come back and manually repeat the same thing over and over. That’s a waste of time, and it makes it easy to miss updates. Recurring Search is our way of solving that: it gives you live monitoring of your own queries, on your own schedule.