PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 ,\n wherein the controller is configured to: form, in the image forming process, a first particular image and a second particular image, as the particular images, the fist particular image including the identification information and a command to change the status information corresponding to the identification information stored in the storage to the second status information, the second particular image including the identification information and a command to change the status information corresponding to the identification information stored in the storage to the third status information; when the identification information is identified from the first particular image by the identifying process, change, in the storing process, the status information corresponding to the identification information stored in the storage to the status information indicating the second status in accordance with the command included in the first particular image and store the status information indicating the second status in the storage; and when the identification information is identified from the second particular image by the identifying process, change, in the storing process, the status information corresponding to the identification information stored in the storage to the status information indicating the third status in accordance with the command included in the second particular image and store the status information indicating the third status in the storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82456
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12098232', '11822791', '11511515', '12073655', '11427912']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.519631780149405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233561537308182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5200042175075463
- Mean Citation Score: 183.350938
- Max Citation Score: 222.51218
- Similarity Product: 107.47024857858538

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test