PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018865
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "275000"]

Abstract:
The examples herein offer an improved, more integrated implementation of lighting control and building management control, e.g. within the same gateway or cloud computing/control element(s), via an integrated software architecture. A visualization platform of the software architecture provides an integrated user interface via network communication of the computing element with a user terminal device. The integrated user interface offers the user an integrated view of status of building automation control (BAC) appliances and luminaires within the premises, as well as integrated access to control operations of the BAC appliances and the luminaires. For example, the overall system of integrated lighting and building management control may offer a ‘single pane of glass’ type user interface for lighting and other managed operations in the premises. Also, the architecture may utilize a broker for publish-and-subscribe communications, for exchange of information between lighting and building management application and with the visualization platform.

Claim (Index 1):
A building management and lighting system, comprising;\n building automation control (BAC) appliances configured to implement a plurality of controllable operations within a premises and related status reporting, the BAC appliances including interfaces for network communications; luminaires including artificial illumination light sources; processors and interfaces for network communications, in or associated with luminaires, and configured to operate the luminaires to implement controllable general illumination within the premises and related lighting status reporting; a computing element, including a central processing unit and an interface for network communications with the BAC appliances and with the processors in or associated with the luminaires; and a software architecture for execution by the central processing unit of the computing element to implement integrated lighting control and building management control, the software architecture comprising:\n a building management system (BMS) application configured to monitor and/or control the BAC appliances; \n a lighting control application configured to monitor and control the luminaires; \n a broker implementing a publish-and-subscribe communication protocol; \n a visualization software platform configured to publish and subscribe via the broker; \n a first client, associated with the BMS application, configured to support publish-and-subscribe communications of the BMS application with the broker; and \n a second client, associated with the lighting control application, configured to support publish-and-subscribe communications of the lighting control application with the broker, wherein:\n the visualization software platform is further configured to provide an integrated user interface via network communication of the computing element with a user terminal device, the integrated user interface offering the user: \n 1) an integrated view of status of the BAC appliances and the luminaires or other related lighting elements within the premises, and \n 2) integrated access to control operations of the BAC appliances and the luminaires or other related lighting elements within the premises.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04878
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15220758', '15934083', '14356904', '15948448', '15981446']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3483132541451194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5982073495370687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3733026636843143
- Mean Citation Score: 249.96262199999995
- Max Citation Score: 517.89575
- Similarity Product: 511.3721132694036

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

Dataset: test