PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16084957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["315", "291000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to an operating device for operating at least one lighting means comprising a grid input stage and at least one output stage connected to the grid input stage with output connections for connection to the lighting means, a control device for controlling the output stage or operation of the at least one lighting means, and a first digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a first external digital control bus with addressing functionality for receiving external control information, in particular a DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) interface. The operating device according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a second digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a second external (in relation to operating device) digital control bus with addressing functionality, wherein first and second control interfaces are designed for operation with different data protocols.

Claim (Index 10):
The lighting system according to  claim 9 , wherein one of the at least two operating devices is connected via its first control interface via the first external control bus to a central control device and that the one of the at least two operating devices controls as master the operation of the lighting means connected to the other operating devices via the second external bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15514869', '14436716', '15329838', '14906404', '15399997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7179287228638692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4832971974550804
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6944655703229904
- Mean Citation Score: 169.074182
- Max Citation Score: 173.68726
- Similarity Product: 123.43771972572328

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

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