PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758286
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A method of enabling at least some of plurality of nodes to join a wireless network, where each operates according to a wireless networking protocol and each is a component of a lighting system. An initiating unit wirelessly broadcasts a discovery request using a protocol of the network, according to which each other node only responds to the discovery request as broadcast from the initiating unit on condition of being within a predetermined range. Hence one or more in-range nodes each respond to the discovery request from the initiating unit and thereby join the network, while one or more out-of-range nodes do not respond. One or more of the in-range nodes also act as relaying nodes, to re-broadcast the discovery request for receipt by one or more of the out-of-range nodes. One or more of the out-of-range nodes respond to the re-broadcast discovery requests, thereby joining the wireless network.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of enabling at least some of plurality of nodes to join a wireless network, each of said plurality of nodes being configured to operate according to a wireless networking protocol of said network and each being a component device of a lighting system, with at least some of said plurality of nodes comprising illumination sources; wherein according to said method:\n an initiating unit wirelessly broadcasts a discovery request using said wireless networking protocol, wherein according to said protocol each of said plurality of nodes is configured to only respond to the discovery request as broadcast from the initiating unit on condition of being within a predetermined range of the initiating unit, said predetermined range being determined by a received signal strength indicator being above a predetermined threshold; one or more in-range nodes, that are within said range of the initiating unit, each respond to the discovery request from the initiating unit and thereby join the wireless network, while one or more out-of-range nodes that receive the broadcast, but that are out-of-said-predetermined range of said initiating unit, do not respond to the discovery request from the initiating unit; one or more of the in-range nodes act as relaying nodes, to re-broadcast the discovery request for receipt by one or more of the out-of-range nodes; and one or more of the out-of-range nodes each respond to the discovery requests as re-broadcast from one of the relaying nodes, thereby joining the wireless network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23944
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15767443', '14421847', '15027153', '14899164', '12096621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5646291180245471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006672708657651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.558232933308669
- Mean Citation Score: 254.790798
- Max Citation Score: 286.52512
- Similarity Product: 231.07195999025345

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

Dataset: test