PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881406
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "005610"]

Abstract:
A barrier operator feature enhancement device is designed to provide one or more features found in modern barrier operator devices and to incorporate those features into a previously installed barrier operator system. To facilitate ease of use, the barrier operator feature enhancement device can communicate with a large variety of barrier operators. Such communication may be wireless or wired, depending on the communication protocol implemented by a particular previously installed barrier operator. To facilitate the ease of installation, the device is designed to configure itself to operate with the communication protocol of the previously installed barrier operator. Once configured to be able to communicate with the previously installed barrier operator, the feature enhancement device works with the barrier operator to provide one or more additional features to enhance the capabilities of the previously installed barrier operator.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus comprising:\n a barrier operator communication module configured to communicate with a plurality of barrier operator types that use different communication protocols, the communication module further configured to send and receive communication signals by wireless or wired communication protocols; control circuitry interfaced with the barrier operator communication module to communicate with any of the plurality of barrier operator types, the control circuitry configured to control the barrier operator communication module to communicate with at least one pre-installed barrier operator to effect at least one of:\n controlling of operation of at least one feature of the at least one pre-installed barrier operator; and \n monitoring of at least one aspect of the at least one pre-installed barrier operator; \n an input/output module operatively in communication with the control circuitry, the input/output module configured to receive communications from at least one peripheral device, the communications configured to provide at least one of: information regarding an operation status of the pre-installed barrier operator and information to effect operation of the pre-installed barrier operator; the control circuitry further configured to, in response to receiving a communication from the at least one peripheral device, effect at least one of:\n sending a communication to the pre-installed barrier operator to cause at least one of effecting a movement of a barrier and changing a setting of the pre-installed barrier operator, or \n sending a communication to the at least one peripheral device regarding the status of the pre-installed barrier operator; \n wherein the input/output module is configured to receive communications from an obstacle detector; and wherein the control circuitry is configured to refrain from sending a signal to effect closing a barrier by the pre-installed barrier operator in response to receiving a command to close the barrier when detecting that the obstacle detector is unable to detect an obstacle, in response to receiving an indication from the input/output module that the obstacle detector detected an obstacle, or in response to receiving an indication that the pre-installed barrier operator is opening a barrier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30159
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13671602', '14858497', '14010143', '15069351', '15587786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.699683645550489
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5629579903994217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6860110800353824
- Mean Citation Score: 379.938808
- Max Citation Score: 410.83774
- Similarity Product: 390.2935462457025

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

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