PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
To enable an external application to use an image forming apparatus having setting information changed, without depending on user's operation. An image forming apparatus includes a storage device for storing setting information set for the image forming apparatus and a communication device for communicating with an external device. The external device includes a terminal device having an application that operates in collaboration with the image forming apparatus in accordance with collaboration information that matches the setting information. When the setting information is changed, the processor of the image forming apparatus determines whether to transmit a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed to the terminal device.

Claim (Index 11):
A terminal device that communicates with an image forming apparatus,\n the terminal device comprising: a processor that controls the terminal device; a storage device for storing collaboration information that matches setting information set in the image forming apparatus; and an application that performs collaborative operation with the image forming apparatus in accordance with the collaboration information, wherein the processor is configured to match the collaboration information with the setting information after change, when receiving a change notice indicating that the setting information has been changed from the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10909
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13536537', '15371626', '13961396', '14316863', '13419813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5037839411859225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769770859504381
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5011032556623741
- Mean Citation Score: 193.71956
- Max Citation Score: 197.1703
- Similarity Product: 155.39983316960334

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

Dataset: test