Patents by Inventor Jeffrey D. Horvath

Jeffrey D. Horvath 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).

  • Building automation systems with automatic metadata tagging
    Patent number: 11275349
    Abstract: A method for tagging entities in a building automation system (BAS), the method including identifying, by a processing circuit, a first entity of one or more entities in a system library in response to receiving an indication to add the one or more entities to the BAS, wherein the system library includes a number of relationships between a number of tags and a number of entities. The method further including determining, by the processing circuit, one or more tags associated with the first entity based on the system library, determining, by the processing circuit, a tag type for each of the one or more tags based on a tag dictionary, and adding, by the processing circuit, the one or more tags to the first entity based on the tag type of each of the one or more tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Steven A. Michals, Mary Philomena Boelk, Jeffrey D. Horvath
  • BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH AUTOMATIC METADATA TAGGING
    Publication number: 20190235455
    Abstract: A method for tagging entities in a building automation system (BAS), the method including identifying, by a processing circuit, a first entity of one or more entities in a system library in response to receiving an indication to add the one or more entities to the BAS, wherein the system library includes a number of relationships between a number of tags and a number of entities. The method further including determining, by the processing circuit, one or more tags associated with the first entity based on the system library, determining, by the processing circuit, a tag type for each of the one or more tags based on a tag dictionary, and adding, by the processing circuit, the one or more tags to the first entity based on the tag type of each of the one or more tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Steven A. Michals, Mary Philomena Boelk, Jeffrey D. Horvath
  • BUILDING CONTROL MANAGER WITH INTEGRATED ENGINEERING TOOL AND CONTROLLER APPLICATION FILE APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE (API)
    Publication number: 20180113682
    Abstract: A building control system including an engineering tool used to create and load controller application files (CAFs). The engineering tool includes a controller application file manager configured to generate one or more controller application files. The engineering tool further comprises a load manager configured to load the controller application files onto one or more control devices. The engineering tool further comprises a controller application file application programming interface that can be used to build a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Horvath, Dana A. Guthrie, Jacob P. Hicks, Shaun M. Bogan, Jason T. Sawyer