PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16279240
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus saves, in a user database, a user ID used in user authentication processing and a department ID in association with each other, and saves, in a department database, the department ID and a number of sheets printed by a print unit in association with each other. The image forming apparatus performs deletion control to: in conjunction with accepting a deletion instruction for deleting the user ID and the department ID that are saved in the user database, delete the user ID and the department ID; and from out of department IDs saved in the department database, exclude a department ID not deleted from the user database by the deletion instruction to thereby execute processing to identify an unnecessary department ID, and delete the identified department ID from the department database.

Claim (Index 9):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n saving, in a user database, a user ID used in user authentication processing and a department ID in association with each other; saving, in a department database, the department ID and a number of sheets for print material printed by a print unit in association with each other; and performing deletion control to:\n in conjunction with accepting a deletion instruction for deleting the user ID and the department ID that are saved in the user database, delete the user ID and the department ID which are deletion targets from the user database; and \n from out of department IDs saved in the department database, exclude a department ID that is not deleted from the user database by the deletion instruction to thereby execute processing to identify an unnecessary department ID, and delete the identified department ID from the department database.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5614
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12367022', '16229245', '11086091', '14626413', '15366881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4972904979634469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4667102632544247
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4942324744925446
- Mean Citation Score: 176.689532
- Max Citation Score: 188.197
- Similarity Product: 158.24881184899806

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

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