PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001160"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main memory device, an auxiliary storage device, a print request receiving unit, and a print processing unit. The print request receiving unit is configured to (a) receive from an external device a print request that includes the number of printing pages and print image data, (b) select one of the main memory device and the auxiliary storage device as a device to which the print image data is to be written on the basis of the number of printing pages, and (c) write the print image data in the selected main memory device or auxiliary storage device. The print processing unit is configured to read the print image data from the main memory device or the auxiliary storage device and perform a print process based on the print image data.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the auxiliary storage device is a storage device using a NAND flash memory; and the print request receiving unit reduces the reference page data size if the number of writing times of the auxiliary storage device in a predetermined period exceeds a predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12695610', '14611593', '14189784', '14614938', '12695470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5164107567915797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.477161490460429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5124858301584646
- Mean Citation Score: 161.18555999999995
- Max Citation Score: 168.01984
- Similarity Product: 124.68391801345824

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

Dataset: test