PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888467
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
In a method for printing a plurality of print jobs on a flat bed printer, each print job specifies an image receiving area with a given shape and given dimensions where an image is to be printed on a recording medium. Each of the print jobs includes a number of sub-jobs specifying image layers to be printed in a predetermined print order, with print settings being individually assigned to each sub-job. The method includes grouping the sub-jobs by their print settings; nesting the image receiving areas of the print jobs on a flat bed of the printer; and printing the sub jobs group by group, with sub-jobs of the same group and from different print jobs being printed in common steps of scanning the flat bed. The scanning steps are performed in a scan order which preserves the print order in each print job.

Claim (Index 2):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the step a) includes sub-steps of:\n a1) grouping the sub-jobs into groups of sub-jobs which belong to different print jobs and have print settings which are compatible with one another, since the print settings permit the sub jobs to be executed in a common step of scanning the flat bed; a2) labeling the sub jobs preliminarily with scan numbers which preserve the print order, since the scan number of a sub-job is larger than the scan number of the sub-job that belongs to the same print job and precedes in the print order; a3) selecting a group from among the groups formed in the preceding grouping step; a4) varying the scan numbers of the sub-jobs in the group so as to maximize the number of sub jobs with identical scan numbers, while preserving the print order; a5) marking the sub-jobs whose scan number occurs with the highest frequency in the group; a6) grouping the sub-jobs, which have not yet been marked, into groups of sub jobs which belong to different print jobs and have compatible jobs settings; and a7) repeating the steps a3) to a6) until all sub-jobs have been marked, wherein step c) comprises printing the sub-jobs in the order of their scan numbers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21739
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15653008', '14632992', '15334021', '11394526', '09699389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7648185575460269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922116902716771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7375578708185919
- Mean Citation Score: 201.997786
- Max Citation Score: 243.25351
- Similarity Product: 182.0370012181449

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