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 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a 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 signals according to at least one of wireless and wired communication protocols; control circuitry interfaced with the communication module to communicate with any of the plurality of barrier operator types, the control circuitry configured to control the communication module to communicate with at least one pre-installed barrier operator to control operation of at least one feature of the at least one pre-installed barrier operator; and an input/output module interfaced with the control circuitry, the input/output module configured to receive a communication from at least one peripheral device, the communication including a command to effect operation of the pre-installed barrier operator; wherein the input/output module is further configured to receive a communication from an obstacle detector; wherein the control circuitry is further configured, in response to the communication from the obstacle detector, to refrain from sending a signal to effect closing the barrier by the pre-installed barrier operator despite receiving the command from the peripheral device.

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): 0.6990408175500968
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5641159180668177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.685548327601769
- Mean Citation Score: 379.938808
- Max Citation Score: 410.83774
- Similarity Product: 406.282316555686

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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