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 10):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the constraint on the temperature of the building zone predicted by the predictive model requires the model predictive controller to maintain the temperature of the building zone predicted by the predictive model within:\n a first zone temperature range during a first time step of the period; and a second zone temperature range, different from the first zone temperature range, during another time step of the period subsequent to the first time step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15625830', '15963860', '15635754', '13802154', '15068470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4443690946241912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6038816360299996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.460320348764772
- Mean Citation Score: 367.04433
- Max Citation Score: 544.0862
- Similarity Product: 482.4159890955567

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