PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["315", "186000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing AC line power to lighting devices such as light emitting diodes (“LEDs”). A representative apparatus comprises: a plurality of LEDs coupled in series to form a plurality of segments of LEDs; first and second current regulators; a current sensor; and a controller to monitor a current level through a series LED current path, and to provide for first or second segments of LEDs to be in or out of the series LED current path at different current levels. A voltage regulator is also utilized to provide a voltage during a zero-crossing interval of the AC voltage. In a representative embodiment, first and second segments of LEDs are both in the series LED current path regulated at a lower current level compared to when only the first segment of LEDs is in the series LED current path.

Claim (Index 12):
A method comprising:\n causing, during a first time interval, a first segment of a plurality of segments to be included in a light emitting diode current path, wherein a plurality of light emitting diodes is couplable to receive an alternating current (AC) voltage, the plurality of light emitting diodes is further couplable to form the plurality of segments, wherein each segment includes one or more light emitting diodes; causing, during the first time interval, a second segment of the plurality of segments to be included in the light emitting diode current path, wherein the second segment is different from the first segment in at least one characteristic; and causing, during a second time interval different from the first time interval, one or both of the first or second segments to be removed from the light emitting diode current path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15811518', '13283201', '14717723', '15227653', '14065312']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7395639139453555
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5484649228907809
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.720454014839898
- Mean Citation Score: 389.185472
- Max Citation Score: 393.21844
- Similarity Product: 340.69432501473665

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

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