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 13):
The image foraging apparatus of  claim 4 ,\n wherein the operations further include determining a difference of sheets in kind between the plurality of feed trays without using a lot number of sheets, manufactured date of sheets, intermediate wholesaler name of sheets, positions of the plurality of feed trays, and sheet-feed timing adjustment values of the plurality of feed trays.

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): 0.5551730201646926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043533808543571
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5500910562336591
- Mean Citation Score: 246.78307400000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.77539
- Similarity Product: 181.676789238416

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

Dataset: test