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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2018
Fulham Company Limited, George Town, KY;
Alvaro Garcia, La Habra, CA (US);
FULHAM COMPANY LIMITED, George Town, KY;
Abstract
A network bridge for a lighting system is disclosed. For one example, a lighting system includes an inter-integrated circuit (IC) cable, a light emitting diode (LED) driver, and wireless module coupled to the LED driver by way of the IC cable. The LED driver is configured to control one or more LED light sources. The wireless module includes an antenna configured to receive a message according to any number of a plurality of wireless communication protocols. The wireless module is configured to process the message into an IC data frame and to deliver the IC data frame to the LED driver via the IC cable, and the LED driver is configured to control a lighting application or one or more LED light sources based on an IC data frame. The message can be a wireless communication protocol message such as a ZigBee message, Bluetooth message or WiFi message. The wireless module includes bridge circuitry configured to process the Zigbee message, Bluetooth message or WiFi message into an IC data frame and to deliver the IC data frame to the LED driver via the IC cable using a serial data communication protocol.