PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15999174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["315", "312000"]

Abstract:
There is described a device and method for automatically controlling a lighting system including at least two lighting devices. The method comprises the steps of: determining a set of lighting devices to be controlled in an automated mode; determining a start reference time and an end reference time; and determining that one or more criteria for operating in the automated mode are met. Then a lighting device to be the first activated lighting device is selected from deactivated lighting devices of the set of lighting devices; and the first activated lighting device is activated during a pre-determined time period defined relative to the start reference time. Subsequently a lighting device to be the first deactivated lighting device is selected from activated lighting devices; and the first deactivated lighting device is deactivated during a pre-determined time period defined relative to the end reference time.

Claim (Index 14):
A method according to of  claim 10  wherein one or both of the steps of:\n presenting the user with one or more selectable options indicative of the controllable lighting devices at the premises; and \n presenting the user with one or more selectable options for the start and/or end reference time comprises: \n displaying the one or more selectable options on a user-interface of a device, such as a thermostat, smartphone, tablet or the like.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62069
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13370594', '12856711', '15508026', '13320147', '13939165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6752406127994655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5049017655809696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6582067280776159
- Mean Citation Score: 156.444564
- Max Citation Score: 166.35146
- Similarity Product: 100.79876309660196

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