PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "259000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a stacking unit, an access detecting unit, a malfunction detecting unit, a counting unit, and a process deciding unit. The stacking unit receives, as stacked, a recording material. The access detecting unit detects an access to the stacking unit by an operator. The malfunction detecting unit detects that a conveyance malfunction of the recording material has occurred on a conveying path guiding the recording material supplied from the stacking unit. The counting unit counts, after the access detecting unit detects an access to the stacking unit by the operator in a state that the malfunction detecting unit does not detect that the conveyance malfunction has occurred, the number of the conveyance malfunction detected by the malfunction detecting unit. The process deciding unit decides a process to address the conveyance malfunction based on the number of the conveyance malfunction counted by the counting unit.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the counting unit counts the number of conveyance malfunction during a first detection period and a second detection period subsequent to the first detection period and, in a case where the number of conveyance malfunction counted by the counting unit during the second detection period is higher than the number of conveyance malfunction counted by the counting unit during the first detection period, the process deciding unit decides the process to address the conveyance malfunction based on the number of conveyance malfunction counted by the counting unit, wherein each of the first and second detection periods is a detection period from a time when the access detecting unit detects an access to the stacking unit by the operator in a state that the malfunction detecting unit does not detect that the conveyance malfunction has occurred to a time when the access detecting unit detects an access to the stacking unit by the operator next in a state that the malfunction detecting unit does not detect that the conveyance malfunction has occurred.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0566
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13051947', '15184026', '11759511', '15481321', '12033346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7796388155014118
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744840822538105
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7491233421766518
- Mean Citation Score: 196.1617
- Max Citation Score: 210.34528
- Similarity Product: 157.2162844393158

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