PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001160"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus to which an option unit can be connected includes a storage unit configured to store an update program for updating an option unit program, and an update unit configured to, if an option unit has been connected to the printing apparatus, update the option unit program using an update program stored by the storage unit.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 6 , further comprising a comparing, in a case where the detecting detects that the option unit connects to the connection interface circuit, a version of the upload program stored by the storage memory and a version of the program of the option unit,\n wherein, in a case where a result of the comparison by the comparing indicates that the version of the upload program stored by the storage memory is newer than the version of the program of the option unit, the upload process uploads the upload program stored by the storage memory to the memory of the option unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14019345', '15660391', '14704427', '14297247', '13382829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5075082732756271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088507493468798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5076425208827524
- Mean Citation Score: 187.3202
- Max Citation Score: 281.65784
- Similarity Product: 211.9268073939466

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

Dataset: test