PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor: receives page setting information in print data of a next page; stores the page setting information in a second memory at the time of receiving the print data of the next page from the external apparatus when a first memory has no area to store image information of the next page; and controls a conveyer to feed out the sheets from a paper feed tray specified by the page setting information to a conveyance path of the conveyer and to convey the sheets when the page setting information is in the second memory at the timing of feeding out the next sheet to the conveyance path of the conveyer regardless of whether the image information corresponding to the page setting information is in the first memory.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a receiver that receives print data including image information and page setting information that specifies a paper feed tray of sheets on which the image information is printed from an external apparatus; a first memory that stores the received image information; a second memory that stores the page setting information, wherein a page capacity of the second memory that stores the page setting information is larger than a page capacity of the first memory that stores the image information; an image former that forms an image on the sheets based on the image information read from the first memory; a plurality of paper feed trays that accommodate the sheets; a conveyer that conveys the sheets fed out from the paper feed tray to the image former and conveys a plurality of the sheets in a side-by-side aligned manner in a conveyance direction between the paper feed tray farthest away from the image former and the image former; and a hardware processor that:\n receives the page setting information in the print data of a next page; \n stores the page setting information in the second memory at a time of receiving the print data of the next page from the external apparatus when the first memory has no area to store the image information of the next page; and \n controls the conveyer to feed out the sheets from the paper feed tray specified by the page setting information to a conveyance path of the conveyer and to convey the sheets when the page setting information is in the second memory at a timing of feeding out a next sheet to the conveyance path of the conveyer, regardless of whether the image information corresponding to the page setting information is in the first memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49123
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15918590', '15000493', '15540064', '16133056', '15333041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4668017659523165
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014040467713303
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4702619940342179
- Mean Citation Score: 219.748598
- Max Citation Score: 232.83238
- Similarity Product: 171.3384444321823

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

Dataset: test