PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
To enable an external application to use an image forming apparatus having setting information changed, without depending on user's operation. An image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus and a communication device for communicating with an external device. The external device includes a terminal device having an application that operates in collaboration with the image forming apparatus in accordance with collaboration information that matches the setting information. When the setting information is changed, the processor of the image forming apparatus determines whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed to the terminal device.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus included in a plurality of image forming apparatuses configured to have settings changed in accordance with an instruction from an external device,\n the image forming apparatus comprising: a processor for controlling the image forming apparatus; a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus; and a communication interface for communicating with a terminal device and the external device, wherein the processor is configured to:\n operate in accordance with an instruction from the terminal device, \n acquire identification information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, \n determine whether the image forming apparatus is a representative of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and \n when the image forming apparatus is determined to be the representative, transmit identification information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and change information indicating a changed content in the setting information to the terminal device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10909
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13536537', '15371626', '13961396', '14316863', '13419813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5014780798833559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861085282118455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4999411247162049
- Mean Citation Score: 193.71956
- Max Citation Score: 197.1703
- Similarity Product: 142.1190795542419

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