PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917449
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus including a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device interface further includes a detection unit, a first selection unit, and a control unit. The detection unit detects a factor for shifting the image forming apparatus to a power saving state. The first selection unit allows a user to select whether to maintain or stop power supply to the USB device interface in the power saving state. The control unit controls the power supply to the USB device interface according to the selection by the user using the first selection unit when the detection unit detects the factor.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a power controller configured to turn on or off the first detector based on the user input for enabling or disabling the first detector when the image forming apparatus is in the sleep state, and turn on or off the second detector based on the user input for enabling or disabling the second detector when the image forming apparatus is in the sleep state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22917
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14740117', '13938390', '14559349', '12481419', '13555298']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4834809618837556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179704457554756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4869299102709276
- Mean Citation Score: 181.454822
- Max Citation Score: 277.3444
- Similarity Product: 168.71837673406603

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test