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 8):
A system, comprising:\n a plurality of luminaires located within a space, wherein each luminaire of the plurality of luminaires includes:\n a light source configured to provide general illumination light to the space, and \n an antenna configured for wireless radio frequency communication within the space; and \n a radio frequency identification reader, the radio frequency identification reader comprising:\n a reader processor configured to control operation of the radio frequency identification reader; and \n a reader radio frequency transceiver coupled to the reader processor, the reader transceiver configured to emit a signal to an antenna selected from the plurality of antennas, and receive reply messages in response to the emitted signal; \n a selectable antenna interface coupled to the processor, the reader transceiver, and to each respective antenna of the plurality of luminaires within the space, the selectable antenna interface configured to:\n in response to an antenna selection signal received from the reader processor, communicatively couple at least one selected antenna of the plurality of antennas to the reader transceiver, wherein each antenna has a unique identifier; and \n a data storage device storing the unique identifier for each respective antenna of the plurality of antennas, \n \n \n wherein the reader processor is further configured to determine an attribute of the received reply message usable in estimating a location within the space from which the received reply message was transmitted.

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): 0.6876374314446616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048345690558752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.669357145205783
- Mean Citation Score: 229.51297
- Max Citation Score: 249.82008
- Similarity Product: 182.0533134874821

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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