PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["236", "051000"]

Abstract:
Remote control of energy consumption is realized using a readily installable, flexible approach. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a remote source communicates with a wireless controller for executing energy usage control. The remote source sends signals to the wireless controller via a gateway located near or, in one implementation, forming part of the wireless controller. In response to the signals, the wireless controller sets control settings for operating one or more of a variety of equipment types, such as a furnace, air conditioner, water heater or heat pump.

Claim (Index 9):
A wall mountable control panel having a housing assembly for use in controlling one or more of a furnace, a heat pump, an air conditioner, and a fan of a building, the wall mountable control panel comprising:\n a user interface housed by the housing assembly for allowing a user of the building to interact with the wall mountable control panel and to set a value of one or more operational parameters; one or more wire connectors, wherein the one or more wire connectors are configured to accept and retain one or more control wires of one or more of the furnace, the heat pump, the air conditioner, and the fan; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature; a wireless interface housed by the housing assembly; a controller housed by the housing assembly and operatively coupled to the user interface, the wireless interface and the temperature sensor, the controller having a control algorithm for controlling one or more of the furnace, the heat pump, the air conditioner, and the fan based at least in part on the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor and the value of one or more operational parameters; wherein the wireless interface is configured to wirelessly connect to a remote gateway in order to access the Internet, and to wirelessly receive user control inputs from the Internet, the wireless interface is further configured to provide the received user control inputs to the controller, wherein the controller is configured make one or more changes to the value of one or more of the operational parameters based at least in part on the received user control inputs, thereby allowing the user of the building to remotely change the value of one or more of the operational parameters from a remote location through the received user control inputs provided by a remotely located user device operated by the user of the building; and wherein the controller is configured to receive one or more user interactions made at the user interface of the wall mountable control panel to set the value of one or more of the operational parameters, and in response to receipt of the one or more user interactions, report a change to the value of one or more of the operational parameters resulting from the one or more user interactions for transmission by the wireless interface through the remote gateway to the Internet and to the remotely located user device of the user of the building.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65079
- Patent Class: 236.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14671912', '12700643', '11777143', '14521305', '15358131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7289320831204591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5382648817283989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.709865362981253
- Mean Citation Score: 300.213254
- Max Citation Score: 370.65793
- Similarity Product: 353.4258389571678

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