PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus for use in a network to establish a first session with a server external to the network in order to allow access from the server and connected to a relay device provided in the network is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a selector configured to change a communication mode of the image forming apparatus to any one of a first mode to function as a gateway and a second mode not to function as the gateway according to communication conditions with the relay device; and a communication device configured to establish, when the communication mode is changed from the second mode to the first mode, a second session with the server; wherein the selector establishes the second session when it is impossible to perform communication with the relay device.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for supporting access to an image forming apparatus provided in a network from a server external to the network when the image forming apparatus establishes a first session with the server in order to allow the access from the server and a trouble occurs in a relay device provided in the network, the method comprising:\n providing, in the image forming apparatus, a first mode in which to function as a gateway and a second mode in which not to function as the gateway; providing, in the image forming apparatus, a selector for changing a communication mode of the image forming apparatus to any one of the first mode and the second mode according to communication conditions with the relay device; and providing, in the image forming apparatus, a communication device for establishing, when the communication mode is changed from the second mode to the first mode, a second session with the server; wherein the selector establishes the second session when it is impossible to perform communication with the relay device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59259
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14567811', '14554139', '13594995', '15182180', '14666726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4883408948963146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4753999549687125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4870468009035544
- Mean Citation Score: 164.589628
- Max Citation Score: 182.01588
- Similarity Product: 139.617303735137

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

Dataset: test