Abstract: A framework and graphical user interface for sharing, comparing, and displaying resource usage data provide for the ability to construct an extensible framework for configuring a graphical user interface (GUI) containing resource usage data pertaining to one or more entities. In various embodiments, the framework enables competitions and comparisons, event tagging, carbon offsetting, or any combination thereof. The framework also makes the GUI available by various means, including Internet distribution. The GUI may take the form of websites, standalone applications, desktop widgets, blog or social networking applications, and the like.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2009
Date of Patent:
February 12, 2013
Assignee:
Lucid Design Group, LLC
Inventors:
Gavin Matthew Platt, Vladislav Kantchev Shunturov, Michael Edward Murray, John Edmund Petersen
Abstract: Resource usage data is automatically collected for an individual, household, family, organization, or other entity. The collected data is transmitted to a central repository, where it is stored and compared with real-time and/or historical usage data by that same entity and/or with data from other sources. Graphical, interactive displays and reports of resource usage data are then made available. These displays can include comparisons with data representing any or all of community averages, specific entities, historical use, representative similarly-situated entities, and the like. Resource usage data can be made available within a social networking context, published, and/or selectively shared with other entities.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2007
Date of Patent:
May 8, 2012
Assignee:
Lucid Design Group, LLC
Inventors:
Michael Edward Murray, John Edmund Petersen, Gavin Matthew Platt, Vladislav Kantchev Shunturov
Abstract: Resource usage data is automatically collected for an individual, house-hold, family, organization, or other entity. The collected data is transmitted to a central repository, where it is stored and compared with real-time and/or historical usage data by that same entity and/or with data from other sources. Graphical, interactive displays and reports of resource usage data are then made available. These displays can include comparisons with data representing any or all of community averages, specific entities, historical use, representative similarly-situated entities, and the like. Resource usage data can be made available within a social networking context, published, and/or selectively shared with other entities.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 4, 2007
Publication date:
December 11, 2008
Applicant:
LUCID DESIGN GROUP, LLC
Inventors:
Michael Edward Murray, John Edmund Petersen, Gavin Matthew Platt, Vladislav Kantchev Shunturov