Patent ID: 8061417

Claim:
A method for selectively controlling a climate of a first zone of a building having multiple zones, the method comprising: testing whether a climate control condition satisfies a first priority condition associated with the first zone, the first priority condition associated with a first priority assigned to the first zone, the first priority indicating at least in part a relative preference between providing one or more climate conditioning resources to a zone assigned the first priority and providing one or more climate conditioning resources to another zone; if the testing indicates that the climate control condition satisfies the first priority condition associated with the first zone, then determining, based at least in part on the first priority assigned to the first zone, a climate conditioning to provide to the first zone, else if the testing indicates that the climate control condition does not satisfy the first priority condition associated with the first zone, then determining, without regard to the first priority assigned to the first zone, the climate conditioning to provide to the first zone; and sending to a control circuit a signal indicating the determined climate conditioning to provide to the first zone.