PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
In an information processing apparatus, when a receiving unit receives data from an external device, a power control unit returns a power state of the apparatus from a power saving state and a transmitting unit transmits a start instruction to a connected image forming apparatus, and when a power supply switch becomes on according to a user's operation, the power control unit returns the power state of the apparatus from the power saving state but the transmitting unit does not transmit the start instruction to the image forming apparatus. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a linkage start and an individual start for an external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus, in an image processing system including the information processing apparatus, the external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus capable of performing an image process in cooperation with others.

Claim (Index 39):
An image processing controller which is externally connected with an image forming apparatus, generates image data, and transmits the generated image data to the image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus performs printing based on the image data, and comprises: a controller which controls the image forming apparatus; a first interface which communicates with the image processing controller; and a first power controller which controls the image forming apparatus to be operated in each of a plurality of power states including at least a first power state in which power is not supplied to the controller and power is supplied to the first interface, and a second power state in which power is supplied to the controller,\n wherein the image processing controller comprises: a second power controller which controls the image processing controller to be operated in each of a plurality of power states including at least a third power state and a fourth power state of which power consumption is larger than a power consumption of the third power state; a second interface which communicates with an external device; and a third interface which is an interface different from the second interface, and communicates with the image forming apparatus, and wherein, when the image processing controller is operated in the third power state, according to reception of a predetermined data from the external device by the second interface, the second power controller shifts the operation of the image processing controller from the third power state to the fourth power state, and according to reception of the predetermined data from the external device by the second interface, the third interface transmits an instruction packet to the image forming apparatus, the instruction packet being for shifting the operation of the image forming apparatus from the first power state to the second power state, and wherein the first power controller shifts the image forming apparatus from the first power state to the second state, according to reception of the instruction packet by the first interface from the image processing controller, when the image forming apparatus is in the first power state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44444
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15490359', '14807755', '13906788', '14987600', '13915884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.541737576591677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4949169412596459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5370555130584739
- Mean Citation Score: 225.08427200000003
- Max Citation Score: 277.85422
- Similarity Product: 262.7369224949396

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

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