公开(公告)号：US20190014646A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US15999711

申请日：2018-08-20

申请人： Fulham Company Limited, an extended Co., Inc'd w/ limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Isl

发明人： Mark RUMER ,  Chunyan HAN ,  Xu WANG ,  Duoping WANG ,  Colin WHITTAKER ,  Brad HUBBARD ,  Zhonghua SHI

IPC分类号： H05B37/02 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H05B33/08

摘要： A driver for a lighting device includes a light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit utilizing interface elements for supporting multiple control connectivity options, the LED driver circuit utilizing a processor having a physical layer interfaces coupled to the interface elements and configured to operatively support a plurality of network protocols, the processor being configured to perform a plurality of functions, including a function of providing a bridge or gateway between network protocols of the plurality of network protocols, the processor being configured to: detect available network protocols of the plurality of network protocols; select, for a physical layer interface, a mode of operation (from modes of operation including, for example: an inactive mode, a monitoring mode, a gateway mode, and a primary mode) appropriate to ensure interoperability and backward compatibility for the available network protocols; and assign one or more of the available network protocols to the physical layer interface(s).