PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
A document scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to control an image scanner to scan a document sheet, thereby generating scanned image data, control a communication interface to transmit, to a storage, an instruction for inquiring whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in a folder of the storage, control the communication interface to receive data existence information representing whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, when the data existence information represents that there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to remove the one or more pieces of image data from the folder, and control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to store the scanned image data generated by the image scanner, into the folder.

Claim (Index 14):
The document scanning apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the controller is further configured to, in the scanned-data storing process, perform:\n a third transmitting process to control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to transmit data name information containing one or more data names of image data stored in the second folder as the subfolder of the first folder; \n a second receiving process to control the communication interface to receive the data name information from the storage; \n a creating process to create a data name that is different from any of the one or more data names contained in the data name information; and \n the data storing process comprising:\n controlling the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to store the scanned image data provided with the created data name, into the first folder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98148
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14959487', '11926895', '14485498', '12365736', '15873212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.505993176600568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4890962912643767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5043034880669489
- Mean Citation Score: 198.73427
- Max Citation Score: 213.85889
- Similarity Product: 157.01404997267602

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