PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16275454
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["315", "294000"]

Abstract:
Described herein is method for setting up a network of luminaires and their subsequent operation. A plurality of luminaires are located on a street ( 24, 29 ), and each luminaire comprises a control module ( 23, 28 ). The method for setting up the network comprises, for each control module, scanning the environment and providing environmental information to a central server, which, allocates the control modules and their associated luminaires into groups (A, B). A group controller ( 23′, 28′, 31, 32 ) is allocated for each group which has long-distance communication with the server and short-distance communication with control modules within its group. Each group controller and control modules within the group form a network which can operate autonomously or under the control of the server. Some of the control modules may include sensors (S 1 , S 2 ) which provide signals indicative of changes in the environment allowing the network to adapt its operation in accordance with those changes.

Claim (Index 19):
A network of luminaires comprising a plurality of luminaires, each luminaire having a control module associated therewith, each of the control modules comprising:\n a long-range communication module, a short-range communication module, a geocoordinates module, and a controller, each control module being configured for providing a control output for controlling a driver of the luminaire, the control output comprising control signals for the driver of a luminous means of the associated luminaire, and\n at least one server configured to be reachable via the long-range communication module, \n the network being configure to operate by \n setting up the network by dividing the control modules into at least one group of control modules on the basis of at least one of: environmental, luminaire and control module information provided by the control modules; \n selecting one of the control modules in each group as the group controller; \n forming a short-range network of further control modules, within each group via the respective short-range communication modules, the further control modules in each group communicating with one another and with their group controller by means of their short-range communication modules; and \n transmitting, in a normal operating state of the network, from the group controller to the server, at least one of its own: environmental, luminaire and control module information, and at least one of the environmental, luminaire and control module information received from the further control modules via the short-range communication module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07955
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15525265', '15862936', '15590729', '15525261', '15525255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6801884248020275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5102634702788903
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6631959293497137
- Mean Citation Score: 246.439878
- Max Citation Score: 302.66104
- Similarity Product: 287.58026432294366

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

Dataset: test