PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["726", "005000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus enhances security in transmitting electronic mail to a destination mail address without degrading operability. An MFP is connected to an authentication server and a mail server via a network. A user name and password are entered in a user name entry screen. The MFP requests the authentication server to authenticate the entered user name and password. When the user name and password are authenticated, the MFP is operable to acquire an e-mail address, a SMTP authentication user name, and a SMTP authentication password according to SMTP associated with the authenticated user name and password from the authentication server. The MFP requests the mail server to authenticate the acquired SMTP authentication user name and SMTP authentication password according to SMTP. When the SMTP authentication user name and the SMTP authentication password are authenticated, the MFP is operable to transmit e-mail to the mail server.

Claim (Index 3):
The MFP according to  claim 2 , wherein the data including the image data is transmitted by Internet FAX (facsimile) using the SMTP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07843
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14087831', '13109455', '15712558', '13083006', '11574151']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3479688320096653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5642318989186789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3695951387005667
- Mean Citation Score: 355.37313400000005
- Max Citation Score: 531.3137
- Similarity Product: 324.29714090173246

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

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