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 18):
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable program for print control, to be executed in an image forming apparatus which can change a feed tray being used for printing to another feed tray during the printing, the image forming apparatus comprising a plurality of feed trays, a print engine that prints according to a print job on sheets fed from one of the plurality of feed trays, and one or more hardware processors, the program comprising instructions which, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the image forming apparatus to perform operations comprising:\n analyzing a print job to determine print products to be printed; on finding two or more feed trays separately containing different kinds of sheets that meet conditions for sheets specified in the print job, among the plurality of feed trays, monitoring an amount of sheets in each of the plurality of feed trays, to determine, for each of the print products, whether an amount of sheets contained at a beginning of printing the each of the print products in one or more feed trays, which contain sheets of same kind as sheets being used for printing, among the plurality of feed trays, is not less than a necessary amount of sheets for printing the each of the print products; and causing the print engine to print each of the print products, wherein the causing the print engine to print each of the print products includes, on determining that the amount of sheets in the one or more feed trays, determined for a next print product, which is a print product to be printed next to a print product currently being printed, is less than the necessary amount of sheets for printing the next print product, performing one of\n causing the print engine to suspend printing the next print product, and \n changing the feed tray being used for the printing to another feed tray among the two or more feed trays, the another feed tray containing sheets an amount of which is not less than the necessary amount of sheets for printing the next print product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67213
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13228340', '13727458', '15070636', '15440159', '13074122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5274536245316763
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937643594213113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5240846980206398
- Mean Citation Score: 246.78307400000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.77539
- Similarity Product: 204.60313487955688

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

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