PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["315", "307000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides lighting control system multi-switch apparatuses and methods. The apparatus includes a lighting control module including at least three electrical terminals. The lighting control module configured to cause a transmission of a quantity of electrical energy to a lighting circuit of a light fixture electrically connected to the lighting control module. The apparatus includes a detector circuit positioned in the lighting control module. The apparatus includes a controller in electrical communication with the detector circuit, the controller specially programmed to cause a call signal to be transmitted to a switch connected to the traveler terminal, the call signal configured to request the switch connected to the traveler terminal transmit a response signal to the controller to identify the switch connected to the traveler terminal.

Claim (Index 1):
A lighting control system multi-switch apparatus, the apparatus comprising:\n a lighting control module including at least three electrical terminals, including a power terminal, a common terminal, and a traveler terminal, the lighting control module configured to cause a transmission of a quantity of electrical energy to a lighting circuit of a light fixture electrically connected to the lighting control module; a detector circuit positioned in the lighting control module, the detector circuit electrically coupled to the traveler terminal and configured to detect a grounding of the traveler terminal; and a controller in electrical communication with the detector circuit, the controller specially programmed to cause a call signal to be transmitted to a switch connected to the traveler terminal, the call signal configured to request the switch connected to the traveler terminal transmit a response signal to the controller to identify the switch connected to the traveler terminal, wherein the controller is configured to initiate an inverse switching protocol in response to a failure of the switch connected to the traveler terminal to respond, the inverse switching protocol configured to cause the lighting control module to inverse an input received from the switch at either the common terminal or the traveler terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43636
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15485050', '15485052', '15484585', '15644470', '15452585']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6806822278234536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178498063857773
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6643989856796859
- Mean Citation Score: 253.838598
- Max Citation Score: 322.06454
- Similarity Product: 317.61875513246184

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

Dataset: test