PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982922
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
Provided is a device management apparatus that performs accurate billing processing. A billing-management unit, based on billing-counter information having cumulative data received from a device, updates registered information in a billing-management table that includes updated data that is updated based on the cumulative data; and a system-control unit, based on comparison results of comparing the cumulative data and the updated data, controls updating of registered information in the billing-management table by the billing-information-management unit. By comparing cumulative data received from a MFP and updated data registered in a billing-management table, a system-control unit can determine whether or not a problem has occurred in cumulative data received from a MFP. As a result, even when for some reason a problem occurs in cumulative data received from a MFP, updated data in which a problem has not occurred can be managed.

Claim (Index 2):
The device management apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n a first time stamp that indicates a transmission date and time is included in the billing-counter information; a second time stamp that indicates an update date and time is included in the billing-management table; and when the first time stamp is older than the second time stamp, the system control unit avoids giving an instruction to the billing-information-management unit for updating registered information in the billing-management table.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13064991', '12353079', '15691534', '11149341', '12336971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5104388679618064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5096318267017683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5103581638358026
- Mean Citation Score: 166.50136
- Max Citation Score: 214.34276
- Similarity Product: 126.7829598419142

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

Dataset: test