PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969827
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus comprises: at least one processor or circuit configured to perform operations of following units: a communication unit configured to establish a connection with an external device for communication; and a control unit configured to control, in accordance with information pertaining to a connection request received from a second external device while a connection is established with a first external device, whether or not to cause the communication unit to establish a connection with the second external device instead of the first external device, wherein the control unit causes a connection to be established with the second external device in a case where the information pertaining to the connection request includes information shared in advance with the second external device instead of predetermined information specifying a device to be connected.

Claim (Index 14):
A communication apparatus comprising:\n at least one processor or circuit configured to perform the operations of following units: a communication unit configured to establish a connection with an external device to communicate with the external device; an operating unit configured to receive, while a first external device has established a connection with a second external device, a predetermined user operation for sending a connection request in response to a beacon signal sent from a first communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit to send the connection request to the first external device in response to the predetermined user operation being received, wherein the control unit controls the communication unit to send, to the first external device, the communication request including information shared in advance with the first communication apparatus instead of predetermined information specifying a source device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31667
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15626635', '15714941', '15054223', '15035082', '14711924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4775657234606375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.461798881574535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4759890392720273
- Mean Citation Score: 157.662082
- Max Citation Score: 177.78108
- Similarity Product: 153.90701068612574

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

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