PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16128975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
The amount of paper that remains in a paper feeding tray and the amount of paper that is to be used for a printing job are compared based on information regarding the paper feeding tray acquired from an image forming apparatus, a printing job status in the image forming apparatus, and information regarding the paper that is to be used for the printing job to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus that reduces the number of times paper replacement and paper replenishment occur for the printing job is selected.

Claim (Index 12):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing, when executed by a computer connected to an image forming apparatus that can execute a printing job, the computer to perform operations of:\n acquiring a state of a paper feeding stage from an image forming apparatus of interest; determining, based on the state of the paper feeding stage, whether or not the image forming apparatus of interest has a number of sheets that are to be consumed for a printing job of interest; and determining the image forming apparatus determined to have the number of sheets, to be a transmission destination of the printing job of interest.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35714
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12437376', '13357343', '12578830', '13922440', '14842412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5361224773237625
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915875954043941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5316689891318257
- Mean Citation Score: 205.18583
- Max Citation Score: 209.77
- Similarity Product: 151.69557872533795

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

Dataset: test