PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "332000"]

Abstract:
A lighting system includes luminaires each having a light source for providing illumination in a space and a radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna. An RFID reader is coupled to the RFID antennas in all the luminaires. The RFID reader may transmit at least one RFID intended recipient message from at least one of the antennas and receive a responsive RFID reply message from a recipient device within the space via a plurality of the antennas. The RFID reader may determine a signal attribute of a reply message signal received via each receiving antenna. The determined signal attributes of the reply message signals received via antennas and information about locations of the receiving antennas are processed to estimate a position of the recipient device within the space.

Claim (Index 16):
A method, comprising:\n during an iteration of an iterative process:\n selecting an available antenna from a plurality of antennas as a currently active antenna, wherein each of the plurality of antennas is: \n coupled to a respective luminaire of a plurality of luminaires located within a space, \n assigned a unique identifier, and \n upon selection of the currently active antenna in the current iteration, generating a message containing an address of an intended recipient and a unique identifier of the antenna selected as the currently active antenna; \n transmitting, via a radio frequency (RF) transceiver coupled to the currently active antenna, the generated message into the space; in response to the transmitted message, receiving via the currently active antenna a reply message from the intended recipient device; determining a reply message attribute of the received reply message; and storing in memory the determined reply message attribute and the unique identifier of the currently active antenna in association with the intended recipient address, wherein upon completion of the iterative process the memory contains records of a plurality of determined reply message attributes corresponding to each respective antenna; determining a location within the space from which the received reply message was transmitted based on the determined reply message attribute; and selecting another antenna from the plurality of antennas to replace the currently active antenna in a next iteration of the iterative process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04615
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12772887', '15362242', '13582148', '13226408', '15603619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6875633730355878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5052245418359662
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6693294899156256
- Mean Citation Score: 229.51297
- Max Citation Score: 249.82008
- Similarity Product: 181.0261711345196

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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