Patents by Inventor Douglas P. Mackay

Douglas P. Mackay 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: 9475359
    Abstract: A computing system for displaying hierarchical set of building management system information is shown and described. The computing system includes a processing circuit configured to render a shape for each software defined building object and to render the shapes for lower level software defined building objects as nested within the shapes for the higher level software defined building objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Publication number: 20140129180
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and reporting events in a building management system are provided. An event indication for building equipment of the building management system is received at a processing circuit. The event indication is associated with an event. The processing circuit classifies the event as at least one of a cause event and a symptom event. The processing circuit suppresses the event indication in response to classifying the event as a symptom event and displays the event indication in response to classifying the event as a cause event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Patent number: 8655830
    Abstract: A computerized method for evaluating and reporting a cause of a performance change in a building management system is shown and described. The method includes receiving an indication of a fault for building equipment of the building management system and determining a root cause for the fault by traversing a causal relationship model including the building equipment and other devices of the building management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Patent number: 8635182
    Abstract: A computerized method for evaluating and reporting a fault in a building management system includes receiving, at a processing circuit, multiple fault indications for different building equipment of the building management system. The method further includes displaying a single fault related to the multiple fault indications rather than reporting the multiple fault indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Publication number: 20120022698
    Abstract: A computerized method for evaluating and reporting a fault in a building management system includes receiving, at a processing circuit, multiple fault indications for different building equipment of the building management system. The method further includes displaying a single fault related to the multiple fault indications rather than reporting the multiple fault indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Publication number: 20110137853
    Abstract: A computerized method for evaluating and reporting a cause of a performance change in a building management system is shown and described. The method includes receiving an indication of a fault for building equipment of the building management system and determining a root cause for the fault by traversing a causal relationship model including the building equipment and other devices of the building management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Publication number: 20110088000
    Abstract: A computing system for displaying hierarchical set of building management system information is shown and described. The computing system includes a processing circuit configured to render a shape for each software defined building object and to render the shapes for lower level software defined building objects as nested within the shapes for the higher level software defined building objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventor: Douglas P. Mackay
  • Publication number: 20110087650
    Abstract: A computing system for organizing and using information in a building management system (BMS) is shown and described. The computing system includes a memory device storing software defined building objects. The computing system further includes a processing circuit configured to relate the software defined building objects by causal relationships between the devices and to store the causal relationships and a description of the causal relationships in the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Douglas P. Mackay, Gheorghe L. Vacariuc