PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16234983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "152000"]

Abstract:
A security light technology to configure an automatically setting timer used for selecting and operating a light-on duration activated by a motion sensor is disclosed. The disclosed uses a shutoff transition mode to eliminate a hassle or hardship caused by an unexpected “shutoff” of illumination. The shutoff transition mode also serves a communication interface between the motion sensor and an occupant remaining in a detection space such that the occupant can interrupt the shutoff transition mode. The disclosed uses a software algorithm to detect and learn the motion characteristics of occupants in the detection space and thereby to automatically set a timer to operate the light-on duration triggered by a motion intrusion. The disclosed also teaches a dual mode motion sensing light configured with a short timer to manage a pathway illumination and a long timer to manage an occupancy illumination bridged by the shutoff transition mode.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for eliminating a hardship of an unexpected shutoff of light in using a motion activated lighting device for an occupancy lighting solution, comprising:\n using a motion sensor working in conjunction with a controller circuitry to turn on a lighting device to perform a high level illumination upon detecting a motion signal and continue the high level illumination for a time duration set by an operating timer before entering a process to turnoff the lighting device; using a shutoff transition mode to turnoff the lighting device over a predetermined time period upon a maturity of the time duration set by the operating timer, wherein the shutoff transition mode is designed with a two-step shutoff process in the predetermined time period, wherein during a first step shutoff process, the high level illumination is instantly dropped to a noticeably lower level illumination followed by a second step shutoff process to turn off the lower level illumination at an end of the predetermined time period; using the instant drop of light from the high level illumination to the noticeably lower level to serve as a warning signal to an occupant remaining in a detection space; and using an interruption motion signal generated by the occupant responding to the warning signal to stop the two-step shutoff process and restart a new cycle of the high level illumination with a new operating timer; wherein during the shutoff transition mode if no motion signal is detected indicating the detection space is unoccupied, the lighting device is thereby successfully turned off.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16201219', '15856468', '15719846', '15785658', '15896403']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7666622982107643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5400655665236282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7440026250420507
- Mean Citation Score: 373.99475
- Max Citation Score: 391.73267
- Similarity Product: 308.1215987554991

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

Dataset: test