PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A controlling method for an image forming apparatus which has plural sheet containers and can perform printing by using a sheet contained in the sheet container is provided. When there is no sheet in at least one of the sheet containers, it is set whether to perform a notification in consideration of another sheet container. No sheet in the sheet container is detected. When it is not set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container, it notifies notification information of no sheet to a preset notification destination in accordance with the detection. When it is set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container and there is another sheet container containing a sheet corresponding to the sheet which should be contained in the sheet container in which there is no sheet, it does not notify the notification information in accordance with the detection.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the detection that the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit disappeared is performed by using a sensor provided for the sheet containing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68966
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15912889', '15841511', '15906311', '14307818', '15627138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.747312749275331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.467094227430361
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.719290897090834
- Mean Citation Score: 144.388008
- Max Citation Score: 150.85262
- Similarity Product: 110.6251042086184

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