PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "081000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an input portion into which a job is to be input, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material to execute the job input into the input portion, a fixing portion configured to fix, on the recording material, the toner image formed by the image forming portion, the fixing portion being capable of being replaced with another fixing portion depending on a content of the job, a selecting portion configured to prompt an operator to select one of a plurality of modes before a plurality of jobs are successively reserved, and a controller configured to control the execution order of reserved jobs. The controller can change the execution order of the plurality of jobs so as to decrease the number of times of replacement of the fixing portion, or the controller can maintain the execution order of the plurality of jobs in a reserved order.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 15 , wherein said fixing portion includes a discriminating portion configured to discriminate a species thereof, and said controller controls the execution order of the plurality of jobs in the first mode depending on the species of said fixing portion indicated by said discriminating portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51515
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13051033', '11812897', '15297412', '15693744', '15903561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.820693438242774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5001013968283629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7886342341013329
- Mean Citation Score: 199.189842
- Max Citation Score: 204.04982
- Similarity Product: 111.42691621200083

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

Dataset: test