Abstract: Based on the framework of innovation adoption, this study proposes a method for identifying disruptive technology that simultaneously satisfies the internal and external characteristics of innovation to identify potential disruptive technologies from the relative nature of innovation. First, Bertopic theme model and patent text information mining techniques are used in stages to obtain new technology functions and discontinuous technology standards respectively, in order to extract the internal characteristics of innovation of disruptive technologies; Second, the CD index, a measure of disruption, is used to extract the external characteristics of innovation in disruptive technologies; Third, the disruptive technologies that simultaneously satisfy the internal and external characteristics of an innovation are identified and classified into new market, low-end and high-end disruptive technologies as well. Finally, taking patents in the field of energy storage as an example, we verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the disruptive technology identification method in this paper. The identification method in this paper is able to match the definition of disruptive technology with its identification, express the interaction between technological innovation and market adoption, and distinguish different types of disruptive technologies. This identification method could provide a reference for enterprises to determine whether a new technology has a disruptive impact.