PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923198
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
A server includes: a communicator communicable with an apparatus configured to perform a scanning operation and a printing operation using an ink-jet head; and a controller. The controller controls the server to: receive, from the apparatus, scan data representing a printing sheet printed by the ink-jet head; determine whether cleaning of the ink-jet head is required, based on the received scan data; transmit permission information to the apparatus when the server determines that the cleaning of the ink-jet head is required, the permission information indicating permission of the cleaning of the ink-jet head; and transmit non-permission information to the apparatus when the server determines that the cleaning of the ink-jet head is not required, the non-permission information indicating non-permission of the cleaning of the ink-jet head.

Claim (Index 10):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a communicator communicable with a server; an image reader configured to read an image formed on a document; an image recorder configured to use an ink-jet head to print an image on a sheet; a cleaner configured to perform cleaning of the ink-jet head; and a controller configured to perform:\n controlling the image recorder to print the image on the sheet; \n controlling the image reader to read the image printed by the image recorder; \n controlling the communicator to transmit, to the server, image data representing the image read by the image reader; and \n controlling the cleaner to perform the cleaning of the ink-jet head when the communicator receives information indicating permission of the cleaning of the ink-jet head, the information being transmitted when the server determines that the cleaning of the ink-jet head is required, based on the image data transmitted by the communicator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62264
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15715173', '12811881', '14716129', '12560056', '12037663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5065210628273309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925390656323278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5051228631078306
- Mean Citation Score: 201.95818
- Max Citation Score: 207.65134
- Similarity Product: 143.76502270921586

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