Patent ID: 7131748

Claim:
A decorative lighting apparatus with selectable color schemes, comprising: a plurality of addressable color-controllable red-green-blue (RGB) light-emitting diode (LED) nodes along a decorative light strand; a control circuitry; a decorating selector which provides a plurality of user-selectable color-control switches for illuminating a plurality of colors in the addressable color-controllable RGB LED nodes, each user-selectable color-control switch being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of colors; the control circuitry being operative to, for each one of all possible combinations of the user-selectable color-control switches which have been set, illuminate the addressable color-controllable RGB LED nodes along the decorative light strand with a color scheme corresponding to the user-selectable color-control switches which have been set, by: identifying color data associated with the user-selectable color-control switches which have been set; and sending the color data over one or more data lines to addressable color-controllable RGB LED nodes associated with LED node address data.