PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16380344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "003280"]

Abstract:
A multi-functional printing (MFP) includes a scan privacy tool to allow edits and changes to a document image to remove or hide private information within a document. The scan privacy tool is enabled for jobs on the MFP device and launches when a print job is run. The document is sent from a device or retrieved from memory storage. The document image displayed on a display and edit interface of the scan privacy tool. Changes are made to the document image using tools available through the scan privacy tool. The changes are applied to the document image. The modified image is saved and transmitted to an engine in the MFP device to complete the print job.

Claim (Index 28):
A system for printing a document, the system comprising:\n a printing device to receive the document and generate an image file of the document; a computing device connected to a network to send the document to the printing device, wherein the document is created or stored on the computing device; and a scan privacy tool, detachably connected to the printing device over the network, to intercept the image file and to suspend printing operations, the scan privacy tool configured to store the image file in a memory on the scan privacy tool, to identify a portion of the image file having characters, to select a tool from a plurality of tools supported by the scan privacy tool, and to modify the portion of the image file, wherein the scan privacy tool performs an action to modify the portion of the image file using the tool to make the portion private, and wherein the image file including the portion is provided to the printing device to print the document with the privatized portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98413
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15476493', '15476289', '15476524', '16380070', '09792853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5587997963949074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5550411355420045
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5584239303096171
- Mean Citation Score: 309.31171000000006
- Max Citation Score: 418.73856
- Similarity Product: 377.17238564826965

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