PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["719", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a memory that stores a package file including an API execution propriety table and a storage file, propriety of a call and execution of one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) from a program that runs on the image forming apparatus itself being described in the API execution propriety table, the one or more APIs being provided for the program to use a function of the image forming apparatus itself, the storage file storing the program; and a processor that operates as a program execution platform for executing the program, the program execution platform including the one or more APIs and a table check unit, the table check unit checking the API execution propriety table in a case where any of the one or more APIs is called when the program is executed to determine propriety of execution of the called API.

Claim (Index 5):
A management server for packaging a program that runs on an image forming apparatus to distribute the packaged program to an end user and performing charging, the program being developed by a developer, the management server comprising:\n a memory that stores a program database and an item code database, the program being registered in the program database using a program ID for uniquely identifying the program as a key, an item code corresponding to the program ID on a one-to-one basis being registered in the item code database using the item code as a key; and a processor that operates as\n a program registration unit that registers the program in the program database using the program ID of the program as a key, the developer applying for the packaging of the program, \n an item code issue unit that issues the item code for the program registered in the program database, \n an API information association unit that associates, on an API execution propriety table, paid API information with the issued item code, propriety of a call and execution of one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by the image forming apparatus from the program being described in the API execution propriety table, the paid API information representing a price for each of the one or more APIs for the program to obtain a right to use the one or more APIs, and \n a charge unit that charges the developer and/or the end user based on the item code associated with the paid API information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41538
- Patent Class: 719.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12216189', '10627731', '13753308', '11607173', '15056482']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4742304654055269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859007687548628
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4753974957404605
- Mean Citation Score: 138.01421399999998
- Max Citation Score: 149.0616
- Similarity Product: 96.07308242225643

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test