PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16412844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "517000"]

Abstract:
A lighting device or an apparatus for use with a light source has one or more sensors, intelligence in the form of programmed processors and communication capabilities. Each sensor is configured to monitor one or more conditions external to a lighting device not directly related to operational performance of the respective lighting device. Programming provides a standardized interface to enable processing of sensed conditions from sensors of different types.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for use with a light source, the apparatus comprising:\n a sensor coupling configured to present a standardized sensor connection interface, the standardized sensor connection interface being compatible with a plurality of different types of sensors; a sensor connected to the standardized sensor connection interface of the sensor coupling, the sensor being of one of the different types and located so as to sense one of a plurality of external conditions not directly related to operation or control of the light source, the sensor being configured to output a signal responsive to the sensed external condition via the standardized sensor connection interface of the sensor coupling; a processor coupled to the sensor coupling; a communication interface accessible by the processor; a memory accessible to the processor; and programming stored in the memory, wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the processor to implement functions, including functions to:\n receive, in a standardized signal format, the signal from the sensor; \n deliver, in a standardized data format and based at least in part on the signal, first data representing the external condition sensed by the sensor to a first application program corresponding at least in part to the one type of the sensor; \n deliver, in the standardized data format and based at least in part on the signal, second data representing the external condition sensed by the sensor to a second application program corresponding at least in part to the one type of the sensor, wherein the second application program is different from the first application program; \n enable processing of the first data representing the sensed external condition by the processor on behalf of the first application program; \n enable processing of the second data representing the sensed external condition by the processor on behalf of the second application program; \n communicate, in a standardized communications format enabled by the programming and to a first destination, first information resulting from processing of the first data representing the sensed external condition; and \n communicate, in the standardized communications format enabled by the programming and to a second destination, second information resulting from processing of the second data representing the sensed external condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40385
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14617444', '15389529', '14702107', '13463586', '14285881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7209274475979052
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5187641920970144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.700711122047816
- Mean Citation Score: 307.441758
- Max Citation Score: 316.61703
- Similarity Product: 263.8622198771095

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

Dataset: test