PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a session determining section that determines to execute a multipoint session, a first request section that enquires about whether to participate in the multipoint session to other image forming apparatuses, a group forming section that forms a group that participates in the multipoint session including the image forming apparatus and the other image forming apparatuses that have sent a response to participate in the multipoint session when the response to participate in the multipoint session is received from the other image forming apparatuses, and a second request section that enquires about whether to execute the multipoint session to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a controller configured to store the new firmware and the version information in the storage when the new firmware has been received from the one of the other image forming apparatuses by the reception section, wherein the second request section sends the version information and the second message through the communication section to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group when the controller has stored the new firmware and the version information in the storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80952
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14031448', '09900919', '14709393', '12923685', '13226895']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4491682681610851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921389958211883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4534653409270955
- Mean Citation Score: 182.455566
- Max Citation Score: 188.32385
- Similarity Product: 133.9462937824726

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

Dataset: test