PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
To enable an external application to use an image forming apparatus having setting information changed, without depending on user's operation. An image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus and a communication device for communicating with an external device. The external device includes a terminal device having an application that operates in collaboration with the image forming apparatus in accordance with collaboration information that matches the setting information. When the setting information is changed, the processor of the image forming apparatus determines whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed to the terminal device.

Claim (Index 29):
An information processing system comprising:\n a plurality of image forming apparatuses configured to have settings changed in accordance with an instruction from an external device; and a terminal device configured to collaborate with one or more image forming apparatuses of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, wherein the information processing system is configured to:\n determine whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the settings have been changed to the terminal device when the settings of an image forming apparatus are changed in accordance with an instruction from the external device, \n specify a sub-group including two or more image forming apparatuses in accordance with a predetermined condition, from a main group including image forming apparatuses subjected to a same setting change in accordance with an instruction from the external device, of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and \n when it is determined to transmit the change notice to the terminal device, transmit the change notice or change information indicating a content of the changed settings from the image forming apparatus belonging to the sub-group to the terminal device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10909
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13536537', '15371626', '13961396', '14316863', '13419813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5001741345308581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912766061175148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4992843816895238
- Mean Citation Score: 193.71956
- Max Citation Score: 197.1703
- Similarity Product: 134.60911147509813

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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