PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909668
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate an image corresponding to at least part of a plurality of pages included in the print data according to acquisition of the print data, a holding unit configured to hold the image generated by the generating unit into a storage, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain images of all pages to be printed among the pages included in the print data according to the print instruction from the user, wherein the obtaining unit obtains the image of the page of which the image is already generated by the generating unit among the pages to be printed from the storage, and generates, after acceptance of the print instruction, an image of the page of which an image is not generated by the generating unit.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, the image forming apparatus being capable of receiving print data from an external apparatus and starting image formation based on the print data according to a print instruction from a user, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n at least one controller including a processor configured to execute a program stored in a memory or a circuit configured to implement a function, the at least one controller being configured to function as: a generating unit configured to generate an image corresponding to at least part of a plurality of pages included in the print data according to acquisition of the print data; a holding unit configured to hold the image generated by the generating unit into a storage; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain images of all pages to be printed among the pages included in the print data according to the print instruction from the user, wherein the obtaining unit obtains the image of the page of which the image is already generated by the generating unit among the pages to be printed from the storage, and generates, after acceptance of the print instruction, an image of the page of which an image is not generated by the generating unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58182
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15909256', '15427838', '15836426', '15219669', '15876983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5105493818071511
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153078404321202
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5110252276696481
- Mean Citation Score: 240.037242
- Max Citation Score: 304.15378
- Similarity Product: 226.6680624271869

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