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 20):
A system for monitoring and controlling temperature of a building zone, the system comprising:\n a model predictive controller configured to:\n obtain a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps in an optimization period to provide heating or cooling to the building zone; and \n generate temperature setpoints for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by performing an optimization of the cost function subject to a constraint on a predicted temperature of the building zone, wherein the predicted temperature is defined by a predictive model as a function of the temperature setpoints; \n a thermostat for the building zone, the thermostat configured to:\n receive the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller via a communications network; and \n 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.

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): 0.4185291683240032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5935139970076604
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4360276511923689
- Mean Citation Score: 367.04433
- Max Citation Score: 544.0862
- Similarity Product: 447.8800781674862

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