LIGHTING PRODUCT CATALOG APPLICATION WITH EMBEDDED LINKAGE TO LIGHTING DESIGN TOOL

摘要

An application running on a mobile device presents information about a lighting product, for example, selected from a catalog on a graphical user interface via one or more elements (e.g. a touchscreen) of the mobile device and captures an identification of the selected product. The user interface includes a user selectable indication of a lighting design tool, e.g. a button, icon or other link to the tool. User selection of the tool indicator initiates access to the lighting design tool; and the application passes the identification of the selected product to the lighting design tool. The lighting design tool processes the identification of the selected product and an output of the lighting design tool is presented based in part on photometric information about the selected product automatically retrieved by and populated to the lighting design tool without further manual input to obtain the photometric information about the selected product.

主权项

1. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a non-transitory machine readable medium; and a program embodied in the medium, wherein execution of the program by a programmable device supports functions, including functions to:
provide a graphical user interface for access to a catalog of information about lighting products listed in the catalog;responsive to a user selection of a lighting product from the catalog, present via the graphical user interface at least some information related to the selected lighting product and a user selectable indication of a photometric lighting design tool; andresponsive to a user selection of the indication of the photometric lighting design tool:
automatically capture an identification of the selected lighting product;access the photometric lighting design tool;pass the identification of the selected lighting product to the photometric lighting design tool; andbased on execution of the photometric lighting design tool responsive to the identification of the selected lighting product, present via the graphical user interface an output of the photometric lighting design tool based at least in part on photometric information about the selected lighting product automatically retrieved by and populated to the photometric lighting design tool without further manual input to identify the selected lighting product, to obtain at least some of the photometric information about the selected lighting product.