PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus transmits a sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device, obtains a sheet through a receiving device and performs image formation on the sheet. The receiving device comprises an inlet sensor for detecting a sheet fed from the sheet feeding device. The image forming apparatus transmits the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where the inlet sensor does not detect a sheet within a predetermined time after the sheet feeding device starts to feed a sheet and no signal indicating an abnormality with regard to a sheet is received from the sheet feeding device. If the number of times the sheet feeding request is transmitted exceeds a predetermined number of times, the image forming apparatus stops operation.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming method performed by an image forming system, the image forming system comprising:\n a sheet feeding device configured to:\n start feeding a sheet in accordance with a sheet feeding request; \n not to notify, even in a case where conveyance abnormality of a sheet occurs during conveying operation of a sheet, the conveyance abnormality during the conveying operation; and \n notify, in a case where an abnormality with regard to a sheet occurs while no sheet is being conveyed, a signal indicating the abnormality, and \n an image forming apparatus comprises a sheet detector and an image forming part, in which the sheet detector is configured to detect the sheet which is received from the sheet feeding device, and in which the image forming part is configured to form an image on the sheet received based on a print job, wherein the image forming method comprising: transmitting, by the image forming apparatus, the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device, transmitting, by the image forming apparatus, the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where the sheet detector does not detect the sheet within a first predetermined time after the sheet feeding device has started feeding a sheet and a state of the image forming apparatus is turned from a first state to a second state after further elapse of a second predetermined time, wherein the first state is a state in which the signal indicating the abnormality is received and the second state is a state in which the signal indicating the abnormality is not received; and stopping, by the image forming apparatus, performing the print job by the image forming part without transmitting the sheet feeding request in a case where the sheet detector does not detect the sheet within a first predetermined time after the sheet feeding device has started feeding a sheet and the state is turned from the first state to the second state before the second predetermined time further elapses after elapse of the first predetermined time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25424
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15254687', '12560956', '15254081', '15440159', '14683413']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5169404525183142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771792664422425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5129643339107071
- Mean Citation Score: 190.85060000000004
- Max Citation Score: 199.90965
- Similarity Product: 158.392607144773

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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