PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051900
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
A post-processing apparatus acquires a status of an image forming apparatus and sheet information of sheet feeders in the image forming apparatus, and when determining that sheets used in a print job that the image forming apparatus is instructed to perform need to be fed on the basis of the acquired status and sheet information, transmits information on the sheet feeding together with an instruction to perform the print job to the image forming apparatus when instructing the image forming apparatus to perform the print job.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for controlling an information processing system including an image forming apparatus and a post-processing apparatus for post-processing output materials from the image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n acquiring a status of the image forming apparatus by the post-processing apparatus; acquiring sheet information of sheet feeders in the image forming apparatus by the post-processing apparatus; determining, by the post-processing apparatus, whether sheets used in a print job that the image forming apparatus is instructed to perform need to be fed on the basis of the acquired status and sheet information; and instructing the image forming apparatus to perform the print job by the post-processing apparatus, wherein when it is determined that the sheets need to be fed, the post-processing apparatus transmits information on the sheet feeding together with an instruction to perform the print job to the image forming apparatus when instructing the image forming apparatus to perform the print job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12183256', '11674073', '15000493', '11438626', '15439374']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4606050835502401
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4841870786723704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4629632830624531
- Mean Citation Score: 199.527146
- Max Citation Score: 201.27917
- Similarity Product: 160.33494058810533

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