Patents by Inventor Gabriel A. Bergman
Gabriel A. Bergman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230349578Abstract: A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's account by one or more unique identifiers previously delivered to the remote device from the wireless thermostat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Adam Nemcek
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Patent number: 11582694Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Patent number: 11493224Abstract: A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's account by one or more unique identifiers previously delivered to the remote device from the wireless thermostat.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Adam Nemcek
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Publication number: 20210243692Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Publication number: 20210180823Abstract: A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's account by one or more unique identifiers previously delivered to the remote device from the wireless thermostat.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Adam Nemcek
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Patent number: 10986575Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Patent number: 10928087Abstract: A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's account by one or more unique identifiers previously delivered to the remote device from the wireless thermostat.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Adam Nemcek
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Patent number: 10768589Abstract: A building automation system may adjust operation of a building system based upon information regarding the relative location of one or more users of the building automation system. In some embodiments, a mobile device having location services for determining a location of the mobile device may provide this information. A mobile device may include a user interface, a memory for storing two or more predetermined geo-fences each defining a different sized region about a home of a user of the mobile device and a controller operatively coupled to user interface and the memory, the controller configured to accept a selection of one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences via the user interface. The controller may report when the location of the mobile device crosses the selected one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences to a remote device. Other geofencing approaches are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: David Quam, Kevin Weirich, Aaron Klein, Gabriel Bergman, Christopher Goh, Jonathan Frenz, Riley Gerszewski, Rudolph Gamberini, Steven C. Nichols, Ix
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Publication number: 20200178173Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Patent number: 10655873Abstract: A controller equipped with a user interface having a separate schedule review mode, including methods of accessing and/or programming such devices, are disclosed. The controller may include a user interface that can be utilized to initiate a scheduling routine having a separate schedule review mode for displaying one or more schedule parameters of the controller without initiating the editing mode. An illustrative method of accessing a schedule on a controller coupled to a user interface may include the steps of initializing a scheduling routine within the controller, initiating a schedule review mode within the controller, displaying one or more schedule parameters for at least one period on the user interface, and exiting the scheduling routine. One or more of the schedule parameters can be modified, if desired, by initiating a separate editing mode within the controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: John B. Amundson, Gabriel A. Bergman, Brent D. Vick
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Publication number: 20200133214Abstract: A building automation system may adjust operation of a building system based upon information regarding the relative location of one or more users of the building automation system. In some embodiments, a mobile device having location services for determining a location of the mobile device may provide this information. A mobile device may include a user interface, a memory for storing two or more predetermined geo-fences each defining a different sized region about a home of a user of the mobile device and a controller operatively coupled to user interface and the memory, the controller configured to accept a selection of one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences via the user interface. The controller may report when the location of the mobile device crosses the selected one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences to a remote device. Other geofencing approaches are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: David Quam, Kevin Weirich, Aaron Klein, Gabriel Bergman, Christopher Goh, Jonathan Frenz, Riley Gerszewski, Rudolph Gamberini, Steven C. Nichols, Ix
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Patent number: 10613555Abstract: An HVAC controller that can detect if a user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by a building's wireless local area network is disclosed. Depending on whether or not the user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by the building's wireless local area network, the HVAC controller basis its control on unoccupied or occupied settings.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Neo Liu
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Patent number: 10582450Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Patent number: 10534331Abstract: A building automation system may adjust operation of a building system based upon information regarding the relative location of one or more users of the building automation system. In some embodiments, a mobile device having location services for determining a location of the mobile device may provide this information. A mobile device may include a user interface, a memory for storing two or more predetermined geo-fences each defining a different sized region about a home of a user of the mobile device and a controller operatively coupled to user interface and the memory, the controller configured to accept a selection of one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences via the user interface. The controller may report when the location of the mobile device crosses the selected one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences to a remote device. Other geofencing approaches are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: David Quam, Kevin Weirich, Aaron Klein, Gabriel Bergman, Christopher Goh, Jonathan Frenz, Riley Gerszewski, Rudolph Gamberini, Steven c. Nichols, Ix
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Patent number: 10436977Abstract: An HVAC controller may be programmed using a mobile device having a touch screen display, a wireless port and a controller that is in operative communication with the touch screen display and the wireless port. The controller may establish communication with and download an application program code from the remote download server. The controller may establish a direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller and execute the application program code, which provides one or more configuration screens on the touch screen display of the mobile device to enable the user to configure the HVAC controller via one or more configuration parameters, and then upload the one or more configuration parameters to the HVAC controller via the direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Bergman, David Quam, Jeffrey Stuart, John Amundson, Paul Schwendinger, Kevin Weirich, Michael Bruce, Soumitri Kolavennu, Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 10422543Abstract: An HVAC system includes an HVAC unit having a cooling mode and a heating mode for conditioning the air in an inside space, and a programmable thermostat located remotely from the HVAC unit. The HVAC unit may have an onboard controller configured to control when the HVAC unit is in the cooling mode or heating mode, and whether the HVAC unit is activated or not. In some cases, the onboard controller of the HVAC unit may use a common temperature setpoint when controlling in the cooling mode and the heating mode. The programmable thermostat may have a programmable schedule with a plurality of time periods, where each time period has a heating setpoint and a cooling setpoint separated by a dead band. The onboard controller of the HVAC unit may be configured to accept input signals from the remotely located thermostat.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Chris Mullarkey, Cary Leen, David Schultz, Milos Cabel
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Publication number: 20190041881Abstract: An HVAC controller that can detect if a user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by a building's wireless local area network is disclosed. Depending on whether or not the user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by the building's wireless local area network, the HVAC controller basis its control on unoccupied or occupied settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Neo Liu
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Patent number: 10133283Abstract: An HVAC controller that can detect if a user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by a building's wireless local area network is disclosed. Depending on whether or not the user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by the building's wireless local area network, the HVAC controller basis its control on unoccupied or occupied settings.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Neo Liu
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Publication number: 20180077642Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
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Publication number: 20180045425Abstract: An HVAC system includes an HVAC unit having a cooling mode and a heating mode for conditioning the air in an inside space, and a programmable thermostat located remotely from the HVAC unit. The HVAC unit may have an onboard controller configured to control when the HVAC unit is in the cooling mode or heating mode, and whether the HVAC unit is activated or not. In some cases, the onboard controller of the HVAC unit may use a common temperature setpoint when controlling in the cooling mode and the heating mode. The programmable thermostat may have a programmable schedule with a plurality of time periods, where each time period has a heating setpoint and a cooling setpoint separated by a dead band. The onboard controller of the HVAC unit may be configured to accept input signals from the remotely located thermostat.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Gabriel A. Bergman, Chris Mullarkey, Cary Leen, David Schultz, Milos Cabel