PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
A hardware processor of an image forming apparatus is able to obtain saving target information from a time of a power-off operation to a time of power supply interruption and to save the saving target information, in a nonvolatile storage of the image forming apparatus, as first snapshot data (for restoring a state at a predetermined time after firmware is activated). When a power-on operation is performed after the time of the power-off operation, the hardware processor determines whether to perform a first high-speed startup process using the first snapshot data as an apparatus startup process with respect to the image forming apparatus. When a determination is made to perform the first high-speed startup process, the hardware processor causes the display of the image forming apparatus to display, in a period in which a hardware initialization process in response to the power-on operation is being performed or immediately after the hardware initialization process is completed, an advance notice screen to be displayed before completion of startup in response to the power-on operation, the advance notice screen giving an advance notice that a transition to a user operable state following the power-on operation will be completed.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein\n when a determination is made to perform the normal startup process, the hardware processor causes the advance notice screen to be displayed in a period in which the firmware activation process is being performed after the hardware initialization process in response to the power-on operation is completed and after the kernel activation process is completed, when a determination is made to perform the second high-speed startup process, the hardware processor causes the advance notice screen to be displayed in a period in which the firmware activation process is being processed after the hardware initialization process in response to the power-on operation is completed and after the second snapshot developing process is completed, and when a determination is made to perform the first high-speed startup process using the first snapshot data, the hardware processor causes the advance notice screen to be displayed in the period in which the hardware initialization process is being performed or immediately after the hardware initialization process is completed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49398
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15690939', '15376848', '15379604', '15685020', '15640889']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5326702193334673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505828713183685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5299860687184891
- Mean Citation Score: 208.729534
- Max Citation Score: 240.68323
- Similarity Product: 161.66569203252195

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