PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185274
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "278000"]

Abstract:
A thermostat for a building zone includes at least one of a model predictive controller and an equipment controller. The model predictive controller is configured to obtain a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps, use a predictive model to predict a temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps, and generate temperature setpoints for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by optimizing the cost function subject to a constraint on the predicted temperature. The equipment controller is configured to receive the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller and drive the temperature of the building zone toward the temperature setpoints during each of the plurality of time steps by operating the HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:\n receiving user-provided temperature setpoints via a local user interface of the thermostat or a mobile device in communication with the thermostat; and in response to receiving the user-provided temperature setpoints, overriding the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller with the user-provided temperature setpoints and using the user-provided temperature setpoints to operate the HVAC equipment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15625830', '15963860', '15635754', '13802154', '15068470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4272994805061438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5715603963842476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4417255720939542
- Mean Citation Score: 367.04433
- Max Citation Score: 544.0862
- Similarity Product: 356.0643060610413

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

Dataset: test