Patents by Inventor Erik S. Paulson

Erik S. Paulson 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).

  • Publication number: 20220138362
    Abstract: A method for augmenting a building model comprises receiving a first building model associated with at least a portion of a building and having a first format, receiving a second building modeling associated with the portion of the building and having a second format, comparing the first building model to the second building model to identify at least one element in the first building model not included in the second building model, and updating the second building model to include the identified at least one element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220137575
    Abstract: A method for visualizing a building model comprises retrieving an identifier associated with a digital representation of a building asset from a digital representation representing at least a portion of a building, retrieving, using the identifier, a graphical representation of the asset from a building model having a different format than the digital representation, and rendering the graphical representation on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Erik S. PAULSON, Ambuj SHATDAL, ZhongYi JIN, Chenlu ZHANG, Youngchoon PARK
  • Publication number: 20220138492
    Abstract: A method of labeling building data comprises receiving, by a labeling system, a plurality of strings relating to data associated with a building, wherein the plurality of strings are received from one or more building devices, segregating the plurality of strings based on at least one semantic element included in the plurality of strings, clustering the plurality of strings based on at least one related element shared by at least a portion of the plurality of strings, labeling at least some of the plurality of strings based on the segregated and clustered plurality of strings, and generating a digital representation of the building using the labeled strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220137569
    Abstract: A method for generating a graph data structure comprises receiving, by one or more processors, data associated with a building, generating one or more space nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to spaces within the building based on the data, generating one or more asset nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to assets within the building based on the data, associating sensor data with the one or more asset nodes based on the data, classifying the sensor data based on the data, and generating a relationship between at least two of the one or more space nodes, the one or more asset nodes, and the classified sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220137570
    Abstract: A method for commissioning a building comprises identifying a building asset within a digital representation of a building having one or more parameters describing relationships of the building asset within the building, controlling one or more other building assets included within the digital representation to change an environmental parameter of the building, monitoring a response of at least one of the building asset or one of the one or more other building assets to the change in the environmental parameter, generating a parameter for the digital representation associated with the building asset based on the monitoring, and updating the digital representation using the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220138183
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: creating and managing a plurality of smart entities, each of the smart entities including a plurality of attributes; receiving inbound data from one or more enterprise applications; translating the inbound data into values for one or more of the plurality of attributes; writing the plurality of attributes to the smart entities; reading the plurality of attributes from the smart entities; translating the plurality of attributes into outbound data; and providing the outbound data to the one or more enterprise applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Publication number: 20220129459
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment configured to provide raw data samples of one or more data points in the BMS. The BMS further includes a data collector configured to collect raw data samples from the building equipment and generate one or more raw data timeseries comprising a plurality of the raw data samples. The BMS also includes a timeseries processing engine. The timeseries processing engine is configured to identify one or more timeseries processing workflows that apply to the raw data timeseries, each of the workflows comprising a predefined sequence of timeseries processing operation. The timeseries processing engine is further configured to process the raw data timeseries using the identified timeseries processing workflows to generate one or more derived data timeseries. The BMS further includes a timeseries storage interface configured to store the raw data timeseries and the derived data timeseries in a timeseries database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Sajjad Pourmohammad, Erik S. Paulson, Ada L. Ma, Gerald A. Asp
  • Patent number: 11314788
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: generating a database of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing each of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings and the plurality of objects each representing a space, person, building subsystem, and/or device, and data entities representing data generated by the objects, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities; receiving data from a first object of the plurality of objects; determining a second object from a relational object for the first object based on the received data; and modifying a data entity connected to an object entity of the second object within the database of smart entities based on the received data for the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Patent number: 11314726
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including generating a database of interconnected smart entities. The smart entities include sensor object entities representing each of the plurality of sensors and data entities representing measurements received from the sensors. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a new measurement from a first sensor, identify a first data entity from a relational object for the first sensor, the first data entity including a plurality of past measurements received from the first sensor, and modify the first data entity within the database of smart entities to include the new measurement received from the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Patent number: 11307538
    Abstract: A web services platform operates to monitor and control equipment of a building management system. The web services platform includes a data collector and a timeseries service. The data collector is configured to collect feedback samples provided by one or more sensors of a building management system and generate one or more feedback timeseries including a plurality of the feedback samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
  • Patent number: 11275348
    Abstract: A building management system includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a publication by an agent on an agent communication channel, the publication comprising timeseries data, identify, based on the publication, an object entity of an entity database associated with the agent, wherein the entity database includes one or more object entities and relationships between the one or more object entities and one or more data entities, identify a data entity related to the object entity based on a relationship of the relationships relating the object entity and the data entity, and ingest the timeseries data into the data entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey C. Schuster
  • Patent number: 11268715
    Abstract: A heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building space includes an HVAC device including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to generate an encrypted dynamic key based on a manifest stored on the device. The manifest includes a set of entitlements for the HVAC device based on relationships between the HVAC device and entities. The processing circuit is further configured to transmit the stored manifest to an authentication server by sending the encrypted dynamic key to the authentication server and receive an updated manifest from the authentication server based on the encrypted dynamic key. The processing circuit is further configured to send a payload request to the authentication server based on the updated manifest, the payload request including a software update request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Justin J. Ploegert, Erik S. Paulson, Sudhi R. Sinha
  • Patent number: 11258683
    Abstract: A web services platform includes a data collector and a timeseries service. The data collector is configured to collect samples of data points and generate input timeseries including a plurality of the samples. The timeseries service is configured to identify a first timeseries processing workflow that uses the input timeseries as an input and defines processing operations to be applied to the samples of the input timeseries, perform the processing operations defined by the first timeseries processing workflow to generate a first derived timeseries comprising a first set of derived timeseries samples, identify a second timeseries processing workflow that uses the first derived timeseries as an input and defines processing operations to be applied to the samples of the first derived timeseries, and perform the processing operations defined by the second timeseries processing workflow to generate a second derived timeseries comprising a second set of derived timeseries samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
  • Publication number: 20220044673
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson
  • Publication number: 20220043410
    Abstract: A building management system includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a publication by an agent on an agent communication channel, the publication comprising timeseries data, identify, based on the publication, an object entity of an entity database associated with the agent, wherein the entity database includes one or more object entities and relationships between the one or more object entities and one or more data entities, identify a data entity related to the object entity based on a relationship of the relationships relating the object entity and the data entity, and ingest the timeseries data into the data entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey C. Schuster
  • Patent number: 11238055
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment, an eventseries generator, and a storage interface. The building equipment are configured to generate a plurality of data samples. Each of the data samples includes a data value and a timestamp. The eventseries generator is configured to assign a sample state to each data sample based on the data value of the data sample and generate one or more events based on the timestamp of each data sample and the sample state assigned to each data sample. Each of the events includes a start time, an end time, and an event state. The eventseries generator is configured to generate an eventseries including the one or more generated events. The storage interface is configured to store the eventseries in an eventseries database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Ada L. Ma
  • Publication number: 20210382861
    Abstract: A building system of a building, the building system comprising one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive building metadata, the building metadata describing a plurality of components of the building, generate, based on the building metadata, a plurality of entities, each of the plurality of entities representing one of the plurality of components, and determine, based on the building metadata, relationships between the plurality of entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a plurality of metadata strings in a universal building schema comprising a plurality of characters representing a first entity of the plurality of entities, one or more second entities of the plurality of entities related to the first entity, and one or more relationships between the first entity and the one or more second entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: ZhongYi Jin, Erik S. Paulson, Simin Zhou, Ryan A. Piaskowski, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20210365894
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to detect a vehicle that enters into a parking lot, identify an individual associated with the vehicle, retrieve context information corresponding to the individual, dynamically determine a first parking space based on the context information and available parking spaces, and provide the individual with directions to the first parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Ada L. MA, Sudhi R. SINHA, Erik S. PAULSON, Elyse R. HOBSON, Youngchoon PARK, Justin J. PLOEGERT, Sarah JUST, Daniel KASS
  • Patent number: 11164159
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive, from a sensor, identifying information associated with an individual, query a database to retrieve context information corresponding to the individual, the database comprising a number of entities corresponding to two or more of spaces, equipment, people, or events and a number of relationships between the entities, the context information determined based on the entities and relationships of the database, determine a purpose of the individual based on the context information, dynamically generate a user interface element for a display based on the purpose of the individual, and control the display to display the user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Ada L. Ma, Sudhi R. Sinha, Erik S. Paulson, Elyse R. Hobson, Youngchoon Park, Justin J. Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11158306
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson