PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
To enable an external application to use an image forming apparatus having setting information changed, without depending on user's operation. An image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus and a communication device for communicating with an external device. The external device includes a terminal device having an application that operates in collaboration with the image forming apparatus in accordance with collaboration information that matches the setting information. When the setting information is changed, the processor of the image forming apparatus determines whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed to the terminal device.

Claim (Index 43):
An image forming apparatus configured to be able to collaborate with a terminal device, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a communication interface for communicating with an external device and other image forming apparatuses configured to have settings changed in accordance with an instruction from the external device; a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus; and a processor that controls communication with the terminal device, wherein the processor is configured to:\n specify a sub-group including at least two or more image forming apparatuses from a main group including image forming apparatuses subjected to a same change to setting information in accordance with an instruction from the external device, from among the other image forming apparatuses, \n when the setting information is changed in accordance with an instruction from the external device, determine whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed to the terminal device, and \n when it is determined to transmit the change notice to the terminal device, transmit the change notice or change information indicating a content of the changed setting information to the terminal device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10909
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13536537', '15371626', '13961396', '14316863', '13419813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5008537888503285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488582516844459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4996266616497415
- Mean Citation Score: 193.71956
- Max Citation Score: 197.1703
- Similarity Product: 138.52353262717725

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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