PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["726", "029000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus includes a user signal transmission unit that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication; a manager function implementing unit that implements a function provided to a manager of the present apparatus; a license monitoring unit that monitors a license of the present apparatus, and outputs a function limitation signal when the license has expired; and a function limitation unit that limits the function implemented by the manager function implementing unit when receiving the function limitation signal. In a communication apparatus that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication, a function of the apparatus is limited when a relevant license has expired, while preventing an influence of the limitation upon the end user.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 8 , wherein the expiration of the license is indicated by letters, images or voices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13320136', '12590059', '12269763', '10756737', '10545869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2281929765549099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216688262813154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2575405615275505
- Mean Citation Score: 138.71775079999998
- Max Citation Score: 247.32158
- Similarity Product: 139.8182126878536

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