PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037266
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a print restriction information table, a print job receiver, a print job decider, a communication unit, a print job reception notifier, and a print job executor. The print restriction information table contains a document under print restriction and an approver. The print job receiver receives a print job for printing the document. The print job reception notifier transmits a notice that the print job has been received, to the terminal managed by the approver through the communication unit, when the print job decider has decided that the print job is for printing the document registered in the print restriction information table. The print job executor executes the print job, when the print job that is same as the print job received by the print job receiver is received from the terminal managed by the approver.

Claim (Index 8):
An image forming method comprising:\n receiving a print job for printing a document; deciding the print job including deciding, on a basis of a print restriction information table, whether the print job received in the receiving of the print job is a print job for printing a document registered in the print restriction information table, the print restriction information table being stored in a storage unit, and containing a document under print restriction, and an approver from whom approval for execution of a print job for printing the document is to be obtained, in association with each other; notifying reception of the print job including reading out the approver from whom the approval for execution of the print job is to be obtained, from the print restriction information table, when it is decided, in the deciding of the print job, that the print job is for printing the document registered in the print restriction information table, and transmitting a notice that the print job for printing the document has been received, to a terminal managed by the approver; and executing the print job including executing the print job, when the print job that is same as the print job received in the receiving of the print job is received from the terminal managed by the approver, after the transmission of the notice in the notifying of the reception of the print job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13207821', '15138934', '11142099', '13839087', '12237684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5153582457868029
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5015343368143701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5139758548895597
- Mean Citation Score: 228.93116200000003
- Max Citation Score: 260.37607
- Similarity Product: 194.6022464467067

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