PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019867
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, wherein stored user information is referenced to perform authentication of a user based on accepted user information, and the user is allowed to confirm whether or not to reset the user information of the user when authentication of the user fails. The user is caused to select a reset method for resetting the user information of the user in accordance with the confirmation, and reset the stored user information of the user in accordance with the selected reset method.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n receiving a job; generating user identification information of the image forming apparatus based on user identification information included in the received job; accepting authentication information associated with the user identification information; storing the user identification information of the image forming apparatus and the accepted authentication information in association in a storage; performing control for authentication of a user based on the user identification information and the authentication information stored in the storage; in a case that the authentication of the user succeeds, causing a display unit to display a predetermined operation screen for the user to operate the image forming apparatus; and in a case where the authentication of the user fails, when reset of the authentication information is instructed and a job including user identification information of the user who failed authentication is received, disabling the authentication information stored in the storage in association with the user identification information of the user who failed authentication.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2093
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16013134', '15206038', '15205788', '15900350', '12940893']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4588693307697739
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916200618780889
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4621444038806054
- Mean Citation Score: 199.010246
- Max Citation Score: 206.19461
- Similarity Product: 155.08813274996876

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