Patents by Inventor Charles Thomas Ferguson

Charles Thomas Ferguson 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).

  • Patent number: 10612807
    Abstract: An equipment management system including a controller and a server. The controller communicatively couples to one or more remote systems. At least one of the remote systems includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, a refrigeration system, or a building automation system. The controller receives telemetry data associated with the operation of the one or more remote systems and with individual components of the one or more remote systems. The controller communicates at least a portion of the received telemetry data to the server. The server determines one or more operational commands for the one or more remote systems. The one or more operational commands are determined based on the telemetry data communicated from the controller to the server. The server communicates the one or more operational commands to the controller. The controller communicates the one or more operational commands to the one or more remote systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Bon, Charles Thomas Ferguson, Anna Vishinsky, Veera Reddy Vemula, Farhad Abrishamkar
  • Patent number: 10422545
    Abstract: A system includes one or more systems, a controller and a server. The one or more systems including one or more heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, refrigeration systems, or building automation systems. The controller is communicatively coupled to the one or more systems. The server is communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller receives telemetry data associated with the operation of the one or more systems. The received telemetry data includes data associated with individual components of the one or more systems. The controller also determines a subset of the telemetry data that has changed by comparing the received telemetry data to previous telemetry data. The controller also communicates to the server only the subset of the telemetry data that has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Thomas Ferguson, Veera Reddy Vemula
  • Publication number: 20180209679
    Abstract: An equipment management system including a controller and a server. The controller communicatively couples to one or more remote systems. At least one of the remote systems includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, a refrigeration system, or a building automation system. The controller receives telemetry data associated with the operation of the one or more remote systems and with individual components of the one or more remote systems. The controller communicates at least a portion of the received telemetry data to the server. The server determines one or more operational commands for the one or more remote systems. The one or more operational commands are determined based on the telemetry data communicated from the controller to the server. The server communicates the one or more operational commands to the controller. The controller communicates the one or more operational commands to the one or more remote systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: David J. Bon, Charles Thomas Ferguson, Anna Vishinsky, Veera Reddy Vemula, Farhad Abrishamkar
  • Publication number: 20180209682
    Abstract: A system includes one or more systems, a controller and a server. The one or more systems including one or more heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, refrigeration systems, or building automation systems. The controller is communicatively coupled to the one or more systems. The server is communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller receives telemetry data associated with the operation of the one or more systems. The received telemetry data includes data associated with individual components of the one or more systems. The controller also determines a subset of the telemetry data that has changed by comparing the received telemetry data to previous telemetry data. The controller also communicates to the server only the subset of the telemetry data that has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Charles Thomas Ferguson, Veera Reddy Vemula
  • Publication number: 20150062013
    Abstract: An interactive display system including a wireless pointing device, and positioning circuitry capable of determining absolute and relative positions of the display at which the pointing device is aimed. The pointing device captures images displayed by the computer, using a rolling shutter, the images including one or more human-imperceptible positioning targets. The positioning targets are presented as patterned modulation of the intensity (e.g., variation in pixel intensity) in a display frame of the visual payload, followed by the opposite modulation in a successive frame. At least two captured image frames are subtracted from one another to recover the positioning target in the captured visual data and to remove the displayed image payload. The capturing of images at the pointing device is synchronized with the release of image data to the display, to avoid errors in the positioning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoram Solomon, Branislav Kisacanin, Michael Louis Zimmerman, Charles Thomas Ferguson