PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor: receives page setting information in print data of a next page; stores the page setting information in a second memory at the time of receiving the print data of the next page from the external apparatus when a first memory has no area to store image information of the next page; and controls a conveyer to feed out the sheets from a paper feed tray specified by the page setting information to a conveyance path of the conveyer and to convey the sheets when the page setting information is in the second memory at the timing of feeding out the next sheet to the conveyance path of the conveyer regardless of whether the image information corresponding to the page setting information is in the first memory.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein,\n upon receiving the print data from the external apparatus in a case where the first memory has an area to store the image information of the page corresponding to the received page setting information, the hardware processor notifies the external apparatus that the image information of the page is acceptable and receives the image information of the page from the external apparatus, and upon receiving the print data from the external apparatus in a case where the first memory has no area to store the image information of the page corresponding to the received page setting information, the hardware processor notifies the external apparatus of refusal to receive the image information of the page.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49123
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15918590', '15000493', '15540064', '16133056', '15333041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4912529172532762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5260294290881182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4947305684367604
- Mean Citation Score: 219.748598
- Max Citation Score: 232.83238
- Similarity Product: 123.1755279818225

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