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 28):
An information processing system comprising:\n a plurality of image forming apparatuses configured to have settings changed in accordance with an instruction from an external device; and a terminal device configured to communicate with at least one or more image forming apparatuses of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, wherein a predetermined image forming apparatus of the one or more image forming apparatuses selects a representative device from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses, the representative device is configured to:\n acquire identification information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and \n transmit the identification information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and change information indicating a content changed in accordance with an instruction from the external device to the terminal device, and \n the predetermined image forming apparatus is configured to select a new representative device different from the representative device from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses when the representative device fails to transmit the change information and the identification information to the terminal device.

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): 0.5020709778410876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837593922956596
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5002398192865448
- Mean Citation Score: 193.71956
- Max Citation Score: 197.1703
- Similarity Product: 145.53394714856148

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