PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a circuit configured to generate an image based on the PDL data, a generating unit configured to generate an image corresponding to at least part of a plurality of pages included in the PDL data, according to acquisition of the PDL data, a holding unit configured to hold the image generated by the generating unit into a storage, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain images of all pages to be printed among the pages included in the PDL data according to the print instruction from the user, wherein the obtaining unit instructs the circuit to skip image generation of a page of which an image is already generated by the generating unit among the pages to be printed, and instructs the circuit to perform image generation of a page of which an image is not generated by the unit configured to generate.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one controller is further configured to function as a storing unit configured to store storage location information about the page of which an image is generated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62712
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15909668', '15876983', '15836426', '15219669', '15078478']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5497123589700258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030554219658131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5450466652696045
- Mean Citation Score: 245.31193
- Max Citation Score: 301.03647
- Similarity Product: 297.16246742300035

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

Dataset: test