PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16283417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of output trays; a storage device that stores a table, each of the plurality of output trays and a combination of a plurality of attributes of sheets-allowed-to-be-output being registered in association with each other in the table; and a controller that receives a print request, the print request including a plurality of attributes of a sheet-to-be-printed, determines whether or not a combination of the plurality of attributes included in the print request is registered in the table, if determining that the combination is not registered in the table, selects an output tray as a tray-to-catch-output-sheet with reference to the table, at least one attribute included in the print request being registered in association with the output tray selected, and if determining that none of the plurality of attributes included in the print request is registered in the table, selects no tray-to-catch-output-sheet.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a plurality of output trays; a storage device that stores a table, each of the plurality of output trays and a combination of a plurality of attributes of sheets-allowed-to-be-output being registered in association with each other in the table; and a controller that\n receives a print request, the print request including a plurality of attributes of a sheet-to-be-printed, \n determines whether or not a combination of the plurality of attributes included in the print request is registered in the table, \n if determining that the combination is not registered in the table, \n selects an output tray as a tray-to-catch-output-sheet with reference to the table, at least one attribute included in the print request being registered in association with the output tray selected, and \n if determining that none of the plurality of attributes included in the print request is registered in the table, selects no tray-to-catch-output-sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12105740', '15086470', '14338449', '10988323', '14744730']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4947149709434542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4801900778604558
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4932624816351543
- Mean Citation Score: 173.18723
- Max Citation Score: 177.96776
- Similarity Product: 128.99027763764855

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