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The following table describes attributes that can be found in most of the data containers.

Attribute

Description

ucid

Unique document identifier based on country, doc-number and kind

mxw-id

Internal record-level identifier

load_source

Identifies the source of the data loaded into Alexandria and can have the following values: 
patent-office: It identifies documents published, usually weekly, by PTOs 
docdb: Weekly updates from the EPO product docdb/inpadoc 
translated: Human translated content 
mxw-smt: Data translated by Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) 
us-assign: Reassignment data from the USPTO 
inpadoc-ls.: Legal status events from the EPO Inpadoc service 
ipcr and mcf: Reclassification files from EPO and USPTO, respectively

status

Internal attribute used in update procedures

formatDesignates the normalized or not-normalized format of the following document-id. 
"epo" is the standardized DOCDB format 
"original" is the unparsed format directly from the data source 

Rule: "original" format is only provided if "epo" format is not available