PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming system capable of dead/alive monitoring without adding a special apparatus. An information-transmitting unit of an image forming apparatus transmits management information. A management-information-acquiring unit of a front-end server acquires the management information from the image forming apparatus. An analyzing unit of a back-end server analyzes the management information acquired by the management-information-acquiring unit. An interval-instructing unit of the front-end server, at specified time intervals accumulates instructions for the analyzing unit. The dead/alive-monitoring unit counts the number of messages not acquired by the analyzing unit, and when the number of messages is equal to or greater than a specified threshold value, determines the analyzing unit is not operating.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming system that includes an image forming apparatus and a server for performing management of the image forming apparatus; wherein\n the image forming apparatus comprises: an information-transmitting unit that transmits management information to the server; and the server comprises: a management-information-acquiring unit that acquires the management information from the image forming apparatus; an analyzing unit that analyzes the management information acquired by the management-information-acquiring unit; an interval-instructing unit that, at specified time intervals, accumulates an instruction that causes the analyzing unit to indicate an acquisition of the instruction; and a dead/alive-monitoring unit that counts the number of the instructions of the instructions accumulated by the interval-instructing unit that are not acquired by the analyzing unit, and when the number of the instructions is equal to or greater than a specified threshold value, determines that the analyzing unit is not operating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14666726', '15783972', '13879532', '11748291', '12693224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5038131591437275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758301206226295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5010148552916177
- Mean Citation Score: 137.829658
- Max Citation Score: 139.94801
- Similarity Product: 98.54181665168284

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