PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "202000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming system including an image forming apparatus and a server. The server stores management data. The image forming apparatus accepts an instruction to print in a confidential mode. The image forming apparatus obtains a name of candidate receiver from the server. The image forming apparatus generates a code. The image forming apparatus prints a distribution material including the generated code and the name of candidate receiver corresponding to the generated code. The code is obtained by converting a URL of a site for receipt notification of the distribution material.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an operation panel for accepting an instruction to print in a confidential mode; a printer unit for performing printing; a communication unit for communicating with a server that stores management data defining a name of person to whom distributed and a name of candidate receiver; a storage unit for storing data; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit to obtain the name of candidate receiver from the server, to control the storage unit to store the obtained name of candidate receiver, to generate a code that can be decoded by a communication device when the instruction to print in the confidential mode is made with the operation panel, and to control the printer unit to print a distribution material including the generated code and the name of candidate receiver corresponding to the generated code, wherein the name of person to whom distributed is a name of a person to whom the distribution material is distributed, the name of candidate receiver is a name of a person who should receive the distribution material via the person to whom distributed, the code is obtained by converting a URL of a receipt notification site, and the receipt notification site is a site set in the server, and is a site for notifying that the candidate receiver of the distribution material has actually received the distribution material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13448684', '12314213', '14606332', '11926863', '15764253']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2505338211221254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4605849600594935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2715389350158622
- Mean Citation Score: 149.902068
- Max Citation Score: 161.11493000000004
- Similarity Product: 124.89548857313515

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