PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a session determining section that determines to execute a multipoint session, a first request section that enquires about whether to participate in the multipoint session to other image forming apparatuses, a group forming section that forms a group that participates in the multipoint session including the image forming apparatus and the other image forming apparatuses that have sent a response to participate in the multipoint session when the response to participate in the multipoint session is received from the other image forming apparatuses, and a second request section that enquires about whether to execute the multipoint session to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the communication section receives the session ID, the model information, the first message, the version information, and the second message from one of the other image forming apparatuses, the image forming apparatus further comprises: a first response section configured to\n compare the received model information with the model information stored in the storage when the communication section has received the session ID, the model information, and the first message, \n send a response to participate in the multipoint session through the communication section to the one of the other image forming apparatuses as a response to the first message when it is determined that the received model information matches the model information stored in the storage, and \n send a response not to participate in the multipoint session through the communication section to the one of the other image forming apparatuses as a response to the first message when it is determined that the received model information does not match the model information stored in the storage; \n a second response section configured to\n compare the received version information with the version information stored in the storage when the communication section has received the session ID, the version information, and the second message from the one of the other image forming apparatuses, and \n send a response to execute the multipoint session through the communication section to the one of the other image forming apparatuses as a response to the second message when the version information differs; and \n a reception section configured to execute the multipoint session through the communication section with the one of the other image forming apparatuses and receive the new firmware from the one of the other image forming apparatuses through the communication section when the second response section has sent a response to execute the multipoint session through the communication section to the one of the other image forming apparatuses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80952
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14031448', '09900919', '14709393', '12923685', '13226895']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4759755815740432
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5052148453081677
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4788995079474556
- Mean Citation Score: 182.455566
- Max Citation Score: 188.32385
- Similarity Product: 119.71430363100173

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

Dataset: test