PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16296331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["412", "006000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus capable of producing a product having the optimum image layout dependent on a discharge destination even when saddle-stitching is canceled due to input of image data for sheets in excess of a limit of a saddle-stitchable number of sheets. The number of output sheets per one copy is calculated based on image data. When the number of output sheets per one copy exceeds a saddle-stitchable number of sheets, it is selected whether to perform the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed without performing the saddle stitching processing thereon or to perform neither the saddle stitching processing nor the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed.

Claim (Index 14):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program for executing a method of controlling a printing apparatus that is connectable to a post-processing apparatus capable of performing a saddle-stitching process, the method comprising:\n making a first determination, performed at least in part by a controller of the printing apparatus, that a first number of recording sheets per one set for a first plurality of recording sheets is not larger than an upper limit of a number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, the first plurality of recording sheets including a cover sheet and a body sheet; controlling, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus and in response to making the first determination that the first number of recording sheets per one set for the first plurality of recording sheets is not larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process:\n (a) an image forming device of the printing apparatus to execute a first image forming order that includes image formation performed lastly for the cover sheet of the first plurality of recording sheets, and \n (b) the post-processing apparatus to perform the saddle-stitching process on the first plurality of recording sheets; \n making a second determination, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus, that a second number of recording sheets per one set for a second plurality of recording sheets is larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, the second plurality of recording sheets including a cover sheet and a body sheet; controlling, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus and in response to making the second determination that the second number of recording sheets per one set for the second plurality of recording sheets is larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, to make a first display of a plurality of options including a first option and a second option via a console section; controlling, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus and in response to a selection of the first option from among the plurality of options of the first display:\n (c) the image forming device of the printing apparatus to execute a second image forming order that includes image formation performed firstly for the cover sheet of the second plurality of recording sheets, and \n (d) the post-processing apparatus to discharge the second plurality of recording sheets without performing the saddle-stitching process on the second plurality of recording sheets; \n making a third determination, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus, that a third number of recording sheets per one set for a third plurality of recording sheets is larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process; controlling, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus and in response to making the third determination that the third number of recording sheets per one set for the third plurality of recording sheets is larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, to make a second display the plurality of options including the first option and the second option via the console section; and controlling, performed at least in part by the controller of the printing apparatus and in response to a selection of the second option from among the plurality of options of the second display, to interrupt a job corresponding to the third plurality of recording sheets without performing image formation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92063
- Patent Class: 412.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14674413', '15701932', '14078606', '16229051', '12194321']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6319307685284261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5952487933598575
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6282625710115692
- Mean Citation Score: 428.66131400000006
- Max Citation Score: 550.2091
- Similarity Product: 399.7719248045684

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

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