PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A controlling method for an image forming apparatus which has plural sheet containers and can perform printing by using a sheet contained in the sheet container is provided. When there is no sheet in at least one of the sheet containers, it is set whether to perform a notification in consideration of another sheet container. No sheet in the sheet container is detected. When it is not set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container, it notifies notification information of no sheet to a preset notification destination in accordance with the detection. When it is set to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet container and there is another sheet container containing a sheet corresponding to the sheet which should be contained in the sheet container in which there is no sheet, it does not notify the notification information in accordance with the detection.

Claim (Index 8):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a controlling method for an image forming apparatus having a plurality of sheet containing units and capable of performing printing by using a sheet contained in the sheet containing unit, the method comprising:\n upon condition that the sheet contained in at least one of the sheet containing units disappeared, setting whether or not to perform a notification in consideration of another sheet containing unit; detecting that the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit provided for the image forming apparatus disappeared; upon condition that it is not set by the setting to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet containing unit, controlling to notify notification information of no sheet to a preset notification destination in accordance with the detection that the sheet contained in at least one of the sheet containing units disappeared; and upon condition that it is set by the setting to perform the notification in consideration of another sheet containing unit and there is another sheet containing unit containing a sheet corresponding to the sheet which should be contained in the sheet containing unit from which the sheet disappeared, controlling not to notify the notification information to the preset notification destination in accordance with the detection that the sheet contained in the sheet containing unit disappeared.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68966
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15912889', '15841511', '15906311', '14307818', '15627138']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7250281939883746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610000716974426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6986253817592815
- Mean Citation Score: 144.388008
- Max Citation Score: 150.85262
- Similarity Product: 113.98754486726764

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

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