PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["726", "029000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus includes a user signal transmission unit that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication; a manager function implementing unit that implements a function provided to a manager of the present apparatus; a license monitoring unit that monitors a license of the present apparatus, and outputs a function limitation signal when the license has expired; and a function limitation unit that limits the function implemented by the manager function implementing unit when receiving the function limitation signal. In a communication apparatus that transmits a user signal required for an end user to perform communication, a function of the apparatus is limited when a relevant license has expired, while preventing an influence of the limitation upon the end user.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus comprising:\n a transmitter configured to transmit a signal; a receiver configured to receive first information concerning a license related to functions of the apparatus; a monitor configured to monitor whether or not the license has expired; and a controller configured to control settings of the transmitter, wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the signal when the license has expired, and wherein the controller is further configured to limit a change of the settings when the license has expired.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13320136', '12590059', '12269763', '10756737', '10545869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.209236932636429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.510534166476607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2393666560204468
- Mean Citation Score: 138.71775079999998
- Max Citation Score: 247.32158
- Similarity Product: 162.42798171519638

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

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