PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918590
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
Provided are an image forming apparatus including multiple feed trays and a non-transitory recording medium. One or more hardware processors of the image forming apparatus determine, for each print product to be printed, whether the amount of sheets contained at the beginning of printing the each print product in a feed tray being used for printing, is not less than the necessary amount of sheets for printing the each print product, and cause a print engine to print the print products. In printing the print products, the one or more hardware processors, when determining that the amount of sheets in the feed tray being used for printing, determined for a next print product, which is to be printed next to a print product currently being printed, is less than the necessary amount of sheets for the next print product, cause the print engine to suspend printing the next print product.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus of claim it,\n wherein the analyzing includes,\n on analyzing a print job including a specification to print a plurality of copies of a certain print product, determining the plurality of copies of the certain print product as the print products to be printed, and \n on analyzing a print job including a specification to execute variable data printing by using variable data records, determining print products merged with the respective variable data records as the print products to be printed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67213
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13228340', '13727458', '15070636', '15440159', '13074122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5550538726545904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5049080553686368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.550039290925995
- Mean Citation Score: 246.78307400000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.77539
- Similarity Product: 180.14293286751624

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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