PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16128975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
The amount of paper that remains in a paper feeding tray and the amount of paper that is to be used for a printing job are compared based on information regarding the paper feeding tray acquired from an image forming apparatus, a printing job status in the image forming apparatus, and information regarding the paper that is to be used for the printing job to be transmitted to the image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus that reduces the number of times paper replacement and paper replenishment occur for the printing job is selected.

Claim (Index 4):
The information processing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the determination unit determines whether or not a remaining number after sheets were consumed for a printing job prior to the printing job of interest is larger than a number of sheets that are to be consumed for the printing job of interest, and if it is determined that the remaining number is larger than the number of sheets, determines that the image forming apparatus of interest has the number of sheets that are to be used for the printing job of interest.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35714
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12437376', '13357343', '12578830', '13922440', '14842412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5354925914842998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941551469907353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5313588470349434
- Mean Citation Score: 205.18583
- Max Citation Score: 209.77
- Similarity Product: 147.4191115474701

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