Patent ID: 8655490
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. An HVAC graphical interface dashboard, comprising: a weather tab, wherein invoking the weather tab advances to a weather screen; an indoor humidity tab, wherein invoking the indoor humidity tab advances to a humidity screen which displays at least a current indoor humidity; an alerts tab, wherein invoking the alerts tab advances to an alerts screen; a help tab, wherein invoking the help tab advances to a help screen that provides context sensitive help that presents at least one dialog box related to a function of a current screen; an indoor settings tab, wherein invoking the indoor settings tab advances to an indoor settings screen which includes a current indoor temperature; a programs tab, wherein invoking the programs tab advances to a programs screen which is configured to program at least one of: a home tab, wherein invoking the home tab advances to a home screen which provides a summary of indoor conditions, wherein a button of the dashboard changes color when it is touched, said change of color is an inversion of color, and the button of the program screen remains inverted after the button of the program screen is touched, unless the button is an up-down arrow, in which case, the up-down arrow button reverts to the up-down arrow button's non-inverted color when not touched.