PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001160"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus to which an option unit can be connected includes a storage unit configured to store an update program for updating an option unit program, and an update unit configured to, if an option unit has been connected to the printing apparatus, update the option unit program using an update program stored by the storage unit.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for use in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus connectable to a plurality of option units, each of the option units including a memory, the printing apparatus including a printer, a network interface circuit configured to receive programs, a connection interface circuit configured to connect an option unit to the printing apparatus, and a storage memory, the method comprising:\n receiving, at the network interface circuit, at least one printer update program for updating a control program for controlling an operation of the printing apparatus, and a plurality of upload programs each of which controls an operation of one of the plurality of option units; storing, in the storage memory, a control program for controlling the operation of the printing apparatus, the received printer update program for updating the control program for controlling the operation of the printing apparatus, and the received plurality of upload programs each of which controls the operation of one of the plurality of option units; detecting the option unit in the plurality of option units in accordance that the option unit is connected to the connection interface circuit; and performing an upload process that includes selecting one program corresponding to the detected option unit from the received plurality of upload programs stored, uploading the selected program into the memory of the detected option unit in a case where the detecting detects the option unit, and updating the stored control program for controlling the operation of the printing apparatus in the storage memory with the received printer update program, wherein the upload process does not use a portion of the upload programs corresponding to an option unit which is not detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14019345', '15660391', '14704427', '14297247', '13382829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5095271906643445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979012365276994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.50836459525068
- Mean Citation Score: 187.3202
- Max Citation Score: 281.65784
- Similarity Product: 255.91360064090733

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

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