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 1):
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 detecting a variety of different environmental conditions; prompting the user to input a perceived comfort level under each of the detected variety of different environmental conditions; receiving the perceived comfort levels; populating a memory with each of the received perceived comfort levels along with the environmental conditions that correspond to each of the received perceived comfort levels; learning under what environmental conditions the user is expected to be comfortable based at least in part on the received perceived comfort levels along with the environmental conditions that correspond to each of the received perceived comfort levels populated in the memory; 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; and reducing the occurrences at which the user is prompted to input a perceived comfort level over time.

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): 0.4215191574832616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5035338411612136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4297206258510568
- Mean Citation Score: 220.74388800000003
- Max Citation Score: 299.8714
- Similarity Product: 225.2421499084473

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