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 11):
A method performed at least partially by a thermostat for a building zone for monitoring and controlling temperature of the building zone, the method comprising:\n obtaining a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps in a period to provide heating or cooling to the building zone; using a predictive model to predict the temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps as a function of temperature setpoints for a thermostat for the building zone; generating the temperature setpoints for the thermostat for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by performing an operation of the cost function subject to a constraint on the temperature of the building zone predicted by the predictive model; operating the HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps to drive the temperature of the building zone toward the temperature setpoints.

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): 0.4196606868908485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5906936311712547
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4367639813188891
- Mean Citation Score: 367.04433
- Max Citation Score: 544.0862
- Similarity Product: 436.0050965241432

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test