PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a session determining section that determines to execute a multipoint session, a first request section that enquires about whether to participate in the multipoint session to other image forming apparatuses, a group forming section that forms a group that participates in the multipoint session including the image forming apparatus and the other image forming apparatuses that have sent a response to participate in the multipoint session when the response to participate in the multipoint session is received from the other image forming apparatuses, and a second request section that enquires about whether to execute the multipoint session to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus that is assigned a predetermined multicast address, comprising:\n storage configured to store model information indicating a model of the image forming apparatus, firmware for use by the image forming apparatus, and version information indicating a version of the firmware; a communication section configured to communicate with one or more other image forming apparatuses that are assigned the same multicast address; a session determining section configured to determine to execute a multipoint session for sending new firmware through the communication section to the other image forming apparatuses using a peer-to-peer system when the new firmware and corresponding new version information are stored in the storage; a first request section configured to send a session ID identifying the multipoint session, the model information, and a first message to enquire about whether to participate in the multipoint session through the communication section to all of the other image forming apparatuses, when the session determining section has determined to execute the multipoint session through the communication section; a group forming section configured to form a group that participates in the multipoint session, including the image forming apparatus and one or more of the other image forming apparatuses that have the same model information as the model information and that have sent a response to participate in the multipoint session, when the communication section has received the response to participate in the multipoint session from the one or more other image forming apparatuses; a second request section configured to send the session ID, the version information, and a second message to enquire about whether to execute the multipoint session through the communication section to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group; and a transmission controller configured to execute the multipoint session through the communication section with one or more of the other image forming apparatuses that have version information differing from the version information and that have sent a response to execute the multipoint session, and send the new firmware to the other image forming apparatuses having the differing version information through the communication section, when the communication section has received the response to execute the multipoint session from the other image forming apparatuses having the differing version information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80952
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14031448', '09900919', '14709393', '12923685', '13226895']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4516072562356018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825106934610475
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4546975999581464
- Mean Citation Score: 182.455566
- Max Citation Score: 188.32385
- Similarity Product: 146.667806238991

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

Dataset: test