PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903056
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["270", "032000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus determines whether crease processing at a plurality of portions set on the sheet includes crease processing on two, front and back surfaces of the sheet; determines, if it is determined that crease processing includes crease processing on the two surfaces of the sheet, whether a connected post-processing apparatus that performs crease processing on a sheet can perform crease processing on the two, front and back surfaces of the sheet by one feeding; and controls, if it is determined that the connected post-processing apparatus cannot perform crease processing on the two surfaces by one feeding, to change, to one of the front and back surfaces of the sheet based on attribute information of the sheet, a surface to be processed in crease processing at the plurality of portions.

Claim (Index 16):
The printing system according to  claim 15 , wherein the creasing unit comprises a male creasing die and a female creasing die, and wherein the sheet is creased by being sandwiched between the male creasing die and the female creasing die.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14614788', '15418863', '14635256', '15427180', '15696388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7314014157336406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046834471725532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7087296188775319
- Mean Citation Score: 292.29838
- Max Citation Score: 369.8794
- Similarity Product: 237.8944294657349

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

Dataset: test