PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein, in the storing process, the controller stores date/time information corresponding to the status information and indicating date and time when the status information was stored in the storage, and wherein, when the status information stored in the storage is changed, the controller additionally stores the date/time information corresponding to the updated status information in the storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82456
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12098232', '11822791', '11511515', '12073655', '11427912']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5214795610506481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5156526365544742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5208968686010307
- Mean Citation Score: 183.350938
- Max Citation Score: 222.51218
- Similarity Product: 122.26131558505058

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