Patent Document ID: 8630740
Application ID: 13632041
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An intelligent controller comprising: a processor; a memory; a control schedule stored in the memory; a schedule interface; a control interface; and instructions stored within the memory that, when executed by the processor, receive one or more immediate-control inputs through the control interface during a monitoring period and record the received immediate-control inputs in memory, receive one or more schedule changes through the schedule interface during the monitoring period and record the received schedule changes in the memory, generate an updated monitoring-period schedule, after the monitoring period, based on the recorded immediate-control inputs, recorded schedule changes, and the control schedule, substitute the updated monitoring-period schedule for a portion of the control schedule corresponding to the monitoring period, and propagate the updated monitoring-period schedule to additional time periods within the control schedule; wherein the instructions generate an updated monitoring-period schedule, after the monitoring period, based on the recorded immediate-control inputs, recorded schedule changes, and the control schedule by combining the recorded immediate-control inputs, recorded schedule changes, and setpoints of the control schedule to produce a provisional schedule, clustering the immediate-control inputs, schedule changes, and setpoints of the provisional schedule into one or more clusters, resolving the one or more clusters within the provisional schedule, and generating the updated monitoring-period schedule from the resolved clusters of the provisional schedule.