PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031590
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card. identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired. IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus management system in which an image forming apparatus configured to read user identifying information from an information recording medium is connected to a managing apparatus for managing use of the image forming apparatus via a network,\n the image forming apparatus comprising: an information reading unit configured to read the user identifying information recorded in a predetermined region of the information recording medium; a region setting unit configured to set the predetermined region from which the user identifying information is read by the information reading unit; and an information format conversion unit configured to convert the user identifying information read by the information reading unit into a predetermined format, the managing apparatus comprising: a user information storage unit in which the user identifying information that has been converted into the predetermined format and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus that is associated with the user identifying information are stored; and a use limit information acquiring unit configured to acquire the use limit information associated with the user identifying information based on the user identifying information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14189567', '15360581', '12029120', '12485206', '14707963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5552183896295066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032705163390276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5500236023004588
- Mean Citation Score: 257.08243600000003
- Max Citation Score: 293.6047
- Similarity Product: 218.59266623620985

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