PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16084957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["315", "291000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to an operating device for operating at least one lighting means comprising a grid input stage and at least one output stage connected to the grid input stage with output connections for connection to the lighting means, a control device for controlling the output stage or operation of the at least one lighting means, and a first digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a first external digital control bus with addressing functionality for receiving external control information, in particular a DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) interface. The operating device according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a second digital bidirectional control interface for connection to a second external (in relation to operating device) digital control bus with addressing functionality, wherein first and second control interfaces are designed for operation with different data protocols.

Claim (Index 9):
A lighting system comprising at least two operating devices according to  claim 1 , which are connected to one another via the respective second control interface via a common second digital bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15514869', '14436716', '15329838', '14906404', '15399997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.694090581538485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771874293949546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.672400266324132
- Mean Citation Score: 169.074182
- Max Citation Score: 173.68726
- Similarity Product: 127.7478248307848

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

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