PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988795
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "276000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system having a control system suitable to control operation of a device in the HVAC system. The control system may include a zone control panel that may control operation of the device using power-line communication. Accordingly, the zone control panel and the device may be both communicatively and electrically coupled via one or more power lines. To that end, the zone control panel may determine a primary address identifying the device and/or a secondary address indicating the one or more power lines electrically coupled to the device. Further, the zone control panel may communicate with and/or coordinate operation of the device by transmitting data messages to the device via the one or more power lines based on the primary address and/or the secondary address.

Claim (Index 1):
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprising:\n a first device configured to be electrically coupled to a first power line that conducts a first phase of electrical power, a second power line that conducts a second phase of electrical power, or both; and a zone control panel configured to be electrically coupled to the first power line and the second power line, wherein the zone control panel comprises modulator circuitry and a microcontroller programmed to, when a first control command is to be communicated to the first device to instruct the first device to adjust operation:\n determine an address mapping that associates each of a plurality of devices implemented in the HVAC system to a corresponding primary address and a corresponding secondary address, wherein a primary address is used to identify a corresponding device and a secondary address indicates one or more power lines to which the corresponding device is electrically coupled; \n determine a first primary address and a first secondary address associated with the first device based at least in part on the address mapping; \n generate a first data message that indicates the first control command and the first primary address associated with the first device; and \n instruct the modulator circuitry to modulate voltage of the first phase of electrical power conducted by the first power line based on the first data message to enable supplying the first control command to the first device along with the first phase of electrical power when the first secondary address indicates that the first device is electrically coupled to the first power line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29688
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15958970', '14712361', '15681896', '15881933', '15926130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3890580999207457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4592395355847009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3960762434871413
- Mean Citation Score: 149.49360400000003
- Max Citation Score: 152.21951
- Similarity Product: 114.18056467012644

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

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