PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167504
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["315", "307000"]

Abstract:
Lighting control interface techniques and corresponding circuitry are provided. The techniques include receiving a first signal potentially representative of a first lighting control signal, and receiving a second signal potentially representative of a second lighting control signal, and determining if either of the first and second signals complies with a first or second lighting control protocol. The lighting control signal may be applied to the same interface connector (regardless of the protocol), thereby eliminating the need for separate dedicated interface connectors. In some cases, the techniques further include determining that a dummy control signal is manifesting in the first and/or second signals, thereby indicating that no lighting control signal is being applied. Depending on the resulting determination, the techniques may include, for example, setting output lighting power according to a pre-established value, or according to the first or second lighting control protocol.

Claim (Index 3):
The lighting control interface circuit of  claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to detect the dummy control signal at an output of the control signal processing circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22535
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13967385', '13816447', '14436716', '15569944', '12259492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7215062362979393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5527302138006168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7046286340482071
- Mean Citation Score: 232.90533
- Max Citation Score: 409.83795
- Similarity Product: 345.4091366818428

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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