PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["726", "005000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus enhances security in transmitting electronic mail to a destination mail address without degrading operability. An MFP is connected to an authentication server and a mail server via a network. A user name and password are entered in a user name entry screen. The MFP requests the authentication server to authenticate the entered user name and password. When the user name and password are authenticated, the MFP is operable to acquire an e-mail address, a SMTP authentication user name, and a SMTP authentication password according to SMTP associated with the authenticated user name and password from the authentication server. The MFP requests the mail server to authenticate the acquired SMTP authentication user name and SMTP authentication password according to SMTP. When the SMTP authentication user name and the SMTP authentication password are authenticated, the MFP is operable to transmit e-mail to the mail server.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of controlling a MFP (Multi Function Peripheral), including a scanner generating image data by scanning an original and a receiver for accepting identification information of a user of the MFP, for transmitting data using a communication protocol, the method comprising the steps of:\n obtaining, from a storage device, authentication information used for the authentication corresponding to the communication protocol based on identification information accepted by the receiver, wherein the storage device stores, in association with identification information of each user of the MFP, authentication information used for an authentication corresponding to the communication protocol; sending the obtained authentication information to a server for the authentication; and after the authentication has been executed on the server, transmitting, using the communication protocol, data including the image data generated by the scanner, wherein the transmitted data includes a predetermined information as information indicating source of the transmission for the data, and wherein the predetermined information is common for a plurality of users and is set to the MFP in advance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07843
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14087831', '13109455', '15712558', '13083006', '11574151']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3086792797310387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5978049294299431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3375918447009292
- Mean Citation Score: 355.37313400000005
- Max Citation Score: 531.3137
- Similarity Product: 482.14300301504153

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

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