PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "276000"]

Abstract:
An HVAC control system is provided that is configured to prompt a user to indicate whether or not they are comfortable under current environmental conditions. In some instances the HVAC control system may be configured to prompt the user to provide additional information regarding other factors that may affect their comfort. The HVAC control system may use the information collected from the user to control an HVAC system to achieve and/or maintain an environmental condition within a building at a level at which the user is expected to be comfortable.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of maintaining and/or increasing a user's perceived comfort within a building that is serviced by an HVAC system, the method comprising:\n monitoring an indoor temperature, an indoor humidity and an outdoor temperature; detecting when each of a plurality of different combinations of indoor temperature, indoor humidity and outdoor temperatures occurs; in response to detecting when one of the different combinations of indoor temperature, indoor humidity and outdoor temperatures is detected, prompting the user to input the user's perceived comfort; populating a database with each of the user's entries of perceived comfort along with the combination of indoor temperature, indoor humidity and outdoor temperatures that corresponds to each of the user's entries of perceived comfort; developing a user's comfort profile based, at least in part, on the database; and based at least in part on the developed user's comfort profile, providing one or more commands to the HVAC system that cause the HVAC system to achieve an environmental condition inside the building under which the user is expected to be comfortable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72222
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13905312', '13952256', '15452084', '13804977', '15048902']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4211519219891537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506060828978982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4296428126881365
- Mean Citation Score: 220.74388800000003
- Max Citation Score: 299.8714
- Similarity Product: 211.7014065891028

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