PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "150000"]

Abstract:
Method for the operation and the expansion of a network of lights, each light in the network including a control module which is assigned to a group, each control module being in communication with a group controller as well as control modules in the same group. The network can be expanded by installing ( 19 ) new lights with their associated control modules, and each new control module scans ( 20 ) its environment and transmits environmental information to a central server where the environmental information is analysed and the new control modules are allocated ( 21 ) into groups. After allocation to a group in which control modules may be moved from one group to another or a new group is formed, the new control modules are available for normal operation. This process is repeated for each new light and associated control module.

Claim (Index 1):
Method for operating a network of lights including the steps of:\n providing a network of lights comprising a plurality of lights, each light having a control module associated therewith, each control module comprising: one long-distance communication module, one short-distance communication module, a geocoordinate module, a controller, each control module being operable for providing a control output for controlling a driver of an associated light,\n providing at least one server reachable via the long-distance communication module, \n dividing the control modules into multiple control module groups based on at least one of: environmental, light and control module information provided by the control modules, \n selecting one of the control modules of each group as a group controller, with which all other control modules of this group can communicate via their short-distance communication modules, \n forming a short-distance network with the control modules within the group, via their corresponding short-distance communication modules, \n transmitting, during normal network operation, from the group controller to the server at least one of: its own environmental, light and control module information and the corresponding information coming from the other control modules \n wherein the selection of a control module as group controller is based on fuzzy control strategies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08219
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15590729', '15525255', '15525250', '15525261', '15525265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.73916594357721
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5097191967855883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7162212688980478
- Mean Citation Score: 292.395032
- Max Citation Score: 316.7315
- Similarity Product: 295.3212208798826

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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