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 34):
A method for printing a document, the method comprising:\n receiving the document at a printing device; generating an image file of the document to be printed at the printing device; invoking a scan privacy tool to suspend the printing operations; intercepting the image file by the scan privacy tool; storing the image file in a memory on the scan privacy tool; selecting a tool supported by the scan privacy tool; modifying a portion of the image file using the tool of the scan privacy tool, wherein the modified portion is made private by the tool; saving the privatized portion of the image file at the scan privacy tool in a memory on the scan privacy tool; and transmitting the image file including the privatized portion from the scan privacy tool to the printing device.

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): 0.559634861589267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5536336192262811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5590347373529685
- Mean Citation Score: 309.31171000000006
- Max Citation Score: 418.73856
- Similarity Product: 360.7780473798752

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