PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036832
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["702", "136000"]

Abstract:
The overall thermal performance of a building UA Total  can be empirically estimated through a short-duration controlled test. Preferably, the controlled test is performed at night during the winter. A heating source, such as a furnace, is turned off after the indoor temperature has stabilized. After an extended period, such as 12 hours, the heating source is briefly turned back on, such as for an hour, then turned off. The indoor temperature is allowed to stabilize. The energy consumed within the building during the test period is assumed to equal internal heat gains. Overall thermal performance is estimated by balancing the heat gained with the heat lost during the test period.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for empirical-test-based estimation of overall thermal performance of a building the aid of a digital computer, comprising:\n a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising program code; a heating source comprising a heating element and a heating delivery component comprised inside a building; a thermometer comprised inside the building; a thermometer located outside of the building; a computer processor interfaced to the storage medium and remotely interface, the heating source, the inside thermometer, and the outside thermometer, wherein the computer processor is configured to execute the program code to perform steps to:\n stop operation of the heating source at the beginning of an unheated period after recording into the storage medium a baseline indoor temperature from the indoor thermometer and a baseline outdoor temperature from the outdoor thermometer; \n temporarily resume operation of the heating source at the end of the unheated period after recording into the storage medium a starting indoor temperature from the indoor thermometer; \n stop operation of the heating source after running the heating source for a heated period and record into the storage medium a final indoor temperature from the indoor thermometer after a stabilizing period following the heated period; \n measure energy consumed in the building from the beginning of the unheated period to the ending of the stabilizing period as equaling heat gained inside the building from internal sources of heat; \n estimate an expected final indoor temperature at the end of the stabilizing period based on the heating source not having been run for the heated period; \n determine the heat gained inside the building over the heating period through operation of the heating source using the fuel requirements of the heating source, the efficiency of the heating source, and the efficiency of the heating delivery component; \n estimate overall thermal performance of the building using the heat gained through using the heating source, the measured energy, the indoor temperatures, the baseline outdoor temperature, and the estimated final indoor temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81159
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14664742', '14664729', '14631798', '15096185', '15151410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.238253314651624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5227660691419218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2667045901006538
- Mean Citation Score: 328.7962740000001
- Max Citation Score: 353.91586
- Similarity Product: 287.8978694409752

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test