PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["315", "246000"]

Abstract:
A controller comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series electrical connection between an AC power source and a load control device. The controller also comprises a control circuit coupled to the controllably conductive device for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive each half-cycle of the AC power source to generate a phase-control voltage. The control circuit is operable to render the controllably conductive device conductive for a portion of each half-cycle of the AC power source. The control circuit is operable to transmit a digital message to the load control device for controlling the power delivered to the load by encoding digital information in timing edges of the phase-control voltage, where the phase-control voltage having at least one timing edge in each half-cycle of the AC power source when the control circuit is transmitting the digital message to the load control device.

Claim (Index 17):
A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to a lighting load in response to a controller, the load control device comprising:\n a load regulation circuit adapted to be coupled to the electrical load for controlling the power delivered to the lighting load and thus the intensity of the lighting load; and a control circuit coupled to the load regulation circuit for controlling the intensity of the lighting load in response to a phase-control voltage received from the controller; wherein the control circuit is operable to alternately operate in a dimmer mode and a digital communication mode, the control circuit operable to control the intensity of the lighting load in dependence upon a phase angle of the phase-control voltage when operating in the dimmer mode, the control circuit operable to control the intensity of the lighting load in response to digital information encoded in timing edges of the phase-control voltage when operating in the digital communication mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15589472', '13359722', '15358883', '15180718', '13828920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7639496440261473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596637876596681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7472184672832006
- Mean Citation Score: 474.62766800000014
- Max Citation Score: 503.54868
- Similarity Product: 467.4399292723703

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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