PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
Provided is the image forming apparatus that is implemented guidance mode. A connecting part connects with a terminal for remote maintenance in a session of a specific protocol. An operation acquiring part acquires operational information corresponding to operation of the terminal connected by the connecting part. A mode changing part is changed into a normal control mode and guidance mode by the operational information acquired by the operation acquiring part. The normal control mode is a mode that actually-controls each part. Also, guidance mode is the mode that controls each part for guidance. An operation control part controls each part by operational information corresponding to the mode changed by the mode changing part.

Claim (Index 9):
A communication processing method executed by an image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a terminal for remote maintenance, comprising the steps of:\n acquiring an operational information corresponding to operation of the terminal; selecting a mode from a plurality of modes executable during remote maintenance to change a state of a self-apparatus by the operational information acquired by the operation acquiring part, wherein the modes that can be selected include a normal control mode actually-controlling each part, and a guidance mode controlling a display for the purpose of guidance for control of each part without actually-controlling each part other than the display, and controlling each part by the operational information corresponding to changed mode, performing, in the guidance mode, guidance display that changes display of an operation panel part and/or state change of the self-apparatus but does not perform control of other part; wherein the specific protocol is a protocol that extends an RFB protocol; the operational information has pointer data about movement and depression of a pointer on an emulated image emulated on the operation panel part of the self-apparatus and displayed on the terminal; the emulated image has an image for a mode change button changing the mode in an area other than an area displayed in the operation panel part of the self-apparatus; and the method comprises changing the mode when the area of the image for the mode change button is depressed with the pointer in the operational information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46939
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15993805', '15993810', '15993806', '15993812', '15993818']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5340022227708913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009794269225174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5306999431860538
- Mean Citation Score: 264.71601200000003
- Max Citation Score: 280.31982
- Similarity Product: 233.7846556369472

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