PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "277000"]

Abstract:
An HVAC system may include a VAV box including a damper movable between a first damper position and a second damper position and an HVAC controller that is mounted remotely from the VAV box. The HVAC controller may be configured to control the VAV box in accordance with a temperature set point entered into the HVAC controller and may be programmed with a test and balance procedure. In some cases, the HVAC controller may also be programmed with functionality that facilitates an installer or other technician in configuring and/or reconfiguring the VAV box. This may include providing a user interface that supports a test and balance procedure of the VAV box. Such functionality may be user-accessible via the user interface of the HVAC controller, and in some cases, may be used to drive the damper of the VAV box between various damper positions as well as perform other functionality.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for using an HVAC controller to control a VAV box, wherein the VAV box includes a damper movable between a first damper position and a second damper position to provide a variable amount of conditioned air to one or more downstream air vents servicing a space, wherein the HVAC controller is mounted in the space serviced by the VAV box and includes a user interface, the HVAC controller includes a temperature control mode in which the damper of the VAV box is controlled to provide conditioned air to the space in accordance with a temperature set point of the HVAC controller, the method comprising:\n using the user interface of the HVAC controller to enter a VAV box configuration mode, wherein in the VAV box configuration mode, the damper position of the damper of the VAV box is user controllable via the user interface of the HVAC controller; and using the user interface of the HVAC controller to control the damper position of the damper of the VAV box.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14692546', '15950003', '14692711', '15217770', '14880635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4696114073897129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5532648447683741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.477976751127579
- Mean Citation Score: 356.808224
- Max Citation Score: 437.91602
- Similarity Product: 401.3235007606768

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