PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16309991
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "118000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a group of lamps in a multi-lamp luminaire, each lamp being operable to emit respective illumination embedded with a predetermined coded light message, and each comprising a respective local controller; wherein the method comprises: communicating between the local controllers of the lamps within the multi-lamp luminaire in order to coordinate that unsynchronized instances of said coded light message are not transmitted from different ones of the lamps in the multi-lamp luminaire.

Claim (Index 1):
A first for use with one or more other lamps in a multi-lamp luminaire, each lamp being operable to emit respective illumination embedded with a predetermined coded light message; wherein the first lamp comprises:\n one or more light-emitting elements for emitting the respective illumination; a local controller; a communication interface configured to enable the local controller to communicate with a corresponding controller on each of the one or more other lamps in the multi-lamp luminaire, the communication comprising sending and/or receiving one or more signals; and a coded light transmitter operable to modulate the coded light message into the respective illumination of the first lamp; wherein the local controller is configured to coordinate with the corresponding controllers of the one or more other lamps, based on the communication via said communication interface, to prevent unsynchronized instances of said coded light message being transmitted from different ones of the lamps in the multi-lamp luminaire, the local controller being configured such that said coordination comprises either:\n a) coordinating that each of the first lamp and the one or more other lamps transmit a respective instance of the same coded light message, and synchronizing all the instances of said message to be transmitted starting at the same time, or \n b) coordinating that only one of the lamps in the multi-lamp luminaire transmits the message, and none other of the lamps in the multi-lamp luminaire transmit any coded light, such that if the first lamp is to transmit said message then the local controller selects to operate the first lamp in a coded-light-transmission mode in which the coded light transmitter transmits said message, whereas if one of the other lamps is to transmit the message the local controller selects to operate the first lamp in a no-coded-light-transmission mode in which the first lamp does not transmit said message.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56863
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15756778', '15756996', '15756750', '15524397', '15323443']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6581041993083755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5663051388440973
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6489242932619477
- Mean Citation Score: 300.761908
- Max Citation Score: 398.55576
- Similarity Product: 334.2433670942688

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test