PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015840
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001200"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a printer unit; at least one of a copier unit and a facsimile unit; a lockable tray with a lock, to store a recording medium; an image formation controller to control at least one of the printer unit, the copier unit, and the facsimile unit in response to a request from a user. In response to a print request for printing using the lockable tray, the image formation controller determines whether the print request is from a user authorized to use the lockable tray based on association information between the lockable tray and the user authorized, and causes the printer unit to perform printing when the print request is from the user authorized. When the request is directed to the copier or facsimile unit, the image formation controller prohibits the copier or facsimile unit from performing printing using the lockable tray.

Claim (Index 8):
An image forming system comprising:\n an image forming apparatus including:\n a printer unit to print a print image on a recording medium; \n at least one of a copier unit and a facsimile unit; \n a lockable tray to store a recording medium before printing of the print image, the lockable tray including a lock; \n an image formation controller configured to control at least one of the printer unit, the copier unit, and the facsimile unit in response to a request from a user, the request including a print request that includes the print image and causes the printer unit to perform printing using the lockable tray, and a request directed to the at least one of the copier unit and the facsimile unit, \n the image formation controller configured to, in response to the print request:\n determine whether the print request is from a user authorized to use the lockable tray in printing based on association information representing association between the lockable tray and the user authorized to use the lockable tray in printing; and \n cause the printer unit to perform printing of the print image in response to a determination that the print request is from the user authorized, the image formation controller configured to prohibit the at least one of the copier unit and the facsimile unit from performing printing using the lockable tray in response to the request directed to the at least one of the copier unit and the facsimile unit; and \n \n a terminal device configured to transmit, to the image forming apparatus, the print request directed to the printer unit, the terminal device including a printer driver configured to generate the print request, wherein the print request generated by the printer driver includes, at least, the print image, a selected tray, and user identification information for identifying the user being a source of the print request.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67797
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12707088', '11520702', '14449692', '15918590', '12112072']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4996837474533943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894786287316999
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4986632355812249
- Mean Citation Score: 189.96843600000005
- Max Citation Score: 194.70778
- Similarity Product: 134.59674839128138

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