PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
A document scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to control an image scanner to scan a document sheet, thereby generating scanned image data, control a communication interface to transmit, to a storage, an instruction for inquiring whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in a folder of the storage, control the communication interface to receive data existence information representing whether there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, when the data existence information represents that there is one or more pieces of image data stored in the folder, control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to remove the one or more pieces of image data from the folder, and control the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to store the scanned image data generated by the image scanner, into the folder.

Claim (Index 4):
The document scanning apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the controller is further configured to perform:\n the second transmitting process comprising:\n controlling the communication interface to transmit, to the storage, an instruction to delete the removed one or more pieces of image data, the second folder having the first folder as a subfolder of the second folder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98148
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14959487', '11926895', '14485498', '12365736', '15873212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5070640370140749
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4847191992308132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5048295532357487
- Mean Citation Score: 198.73427
- Max Citation Score: 213.85889
- Similarity Product: 164.6426095208991

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