PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863502
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and method that prevents an image based on a file attached to an electronic mail from being repeatedly printed includes receiving an electronic mail from a mail server, printing an image based on the file attached to the received electronic mail, and deleting the electronic mail from the mail server after the image is printed. If the electronic mail cannot be deleted from the mail server, identification information corresponding to the undeleted electronic mail is stored, and the image based on the file attached to the electronic mail corresponding to identification information coinciding with the stored identification information is not printed.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus for receiving an electronic mail from a mail server, and printing an image based on a file attached to the received electronic mail, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a storage that stores identification information of the received electronic mail; a network interface that transmits, to the mail server, a deletion request for deleting the electronic mail from the mail server after printing of the image based on the file is completed by a printing unit; and a processor that determines whether the electronic mail is deleted from the mail server with the deletion request, wherein the network interface transmits, to the mail server in a case where it is determined that the electronic mail is not deleted from the mail server with the deletion request, the deletion request for deleting the electronic mail from the mail server based on the identification information stored in the storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54545
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15833894', '15132781', '13149742', '14467719', '11373970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.532490864187029
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5110389182421358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5303456695925396
- Mean Citation Score: 256.70291000000003
- Max Citation Score: 311.92386
- Similarity Product: 280.84528746591565

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