PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the image reader includes a barcode reader, wherein the controller is configured to: in the image forming process, form an image of a barcode corresponding to the identification information as the particular image on the sheet; and in the identifying process, when the controller controls the barcode reader to read an image of the barcode formed on the sheet in the image forming process, identify the identification information in the image of the barcode read by the barcode reader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82456
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12098232', '11822791', '11511515', '12073655', '11427912']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5224079224123176
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5117782059580873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5213449507668946
- Mean Citation Score: 183.350938
- Max Citation Score: 222.51218
- Similarity Product: 129.69445564269546

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

Dataset: test