PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863502
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and method that prevents an image based on a file attached to an electronic mail from being repeatedly printed includes receiving an electronic mail from a mail server, printing an image based on the file attached to the received electronic mail, and deleting the electronic mail from the mail server after the image is printed. If the electronic mail cannot be deleted from the mail server, identification information corresponding to the undeleted electronic mail is stored, and the image based on the file attached to the electronic mail corresponding to identification information coinciding with the stored identification information is not printed.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the processor establishes a communication session with the mail server before an electronic mail is received, disconnects the communication session after at least one electronic mail is received, and establishes a new communication session before an electronic mail is deleted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54545
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15833894', '15132781', '13149742', '14467719', '11373970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5611315124590314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5205249876320975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.557070859976338
- Mean Citation Score: 256.70291000000003
- Max Citation Score: 311.92386
- Similarity Product: 232.66955851058003

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

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