Patents by Inventor Justin J. Ploegert

Justin J. Ploegert 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: 20220376944
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Publication number: 20220368558
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event comprising data and a timestamp. The building system operates to identify first contextual data describing the event in a digital twin, the digital twin comprising a virtual representation of a building, enrich the event with the first contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming system, the consuming system generating an output event based on the enriched event. The building system operates to identify second contextual data describing the output event in the digital twin, enrich the output event with the second contextual data, and provide the enriched output event to the consuming system or another consuming system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto, Rajiv Ramanasankaran
  • Patent number: 11468408
    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 receive a request to hold a meeting in a building, the request including an individual, retrieve, from the request, contact information for the individual, transmit a request for identifying information to the individual using the contact information, determine a purpose of the individual based on the identifying information, generate a virtual ticket for the individual based on the purpose of the individual, identify a presence of the individual at the building based on the identifying information and image data, and control access control devices in response to identifying the presence of the individual to grant the individual access to the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    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, Sandeep K. Sen
  • Patent number: 11451408
    Abstract: A building system for assurance services with timeseries, the building system including 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 monitor a building asset for one or more events and generate a plurality of performance timeseries for the building asset based on the one or more events, determine an actionable insight for the building asset by cross-correlating the plurality of performance timeseries, and perform at least one of generating a work-order for the building asset based on the actionable insight and causing a display device of a user device to display the work-order or communicating with the building asset and causing the building asset to perform one or more operations based on the actionable insight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Justin J. Ploegert, Jason Pelski, Pravin J. Duraisingh, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Publication number: 20220294662
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to access a portion of a building graph of the building from a system, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause one or more processors to determine whether the system has access to the portion of the building graph based on a policy indicated by the plurality of nodes and edges of the building graph and provide the portion of the building graph to the system in response to a determination that the system has access to the portion of the building graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11436567
    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 receive a request to hold a meeting in a building, retrieve user preferences associated with an attendee of the meeting, dynamically determine meeting parameters associated with the meeting based on the request and the user preferences, identify one or more meeting parameters that deviate from the request or the user preferences, and transmit a notification indicating the identified one or more meeting parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    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, Sarah Just, Kelsey Carle Schuster
  • Publication number: 20220239525
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11361123
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11356292
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Publication number: 20220171347
    Abstract: A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: George R. Oliver, Justin J. Ploegert, Karl F. Reichenberger, Sudhi R. Sinha, Sujith Ebenezer, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220100918
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • 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: 11226598
    Abstract: A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: George R. Oliver, Justin J. Ploegert, Karl F. Reichenberger, Sudhi R. Sinha, Sujith Ebenezer, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11199819
    Abstract: A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: George R. Oliver, Justin J. Ploegert, Karl F. Reichenberger, Sudhi R. Sinha, Sujith Ebenezer, 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: 11150617
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11132649
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 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, Sarah Just, Daniel Kass
  • Patent number: 11070081
    Abstract: A smart circuit breaker is configured for installation within a panel assembly. The smart circuit breaker includes a breaker device positioned between a power source and a subcircuit, the breaker device having a moveable contactor configured to change from an open state to a closed state, wherein in the closed state power flows from the power source to the subcircuit via a power line, and wherein in the open state power does not flow from the power source to the subcircuit. The smart circuit breaker further includes a power meter configured to measure a power characteristic of the subcircuit. The smart circuit breaker further includes a processing circuit configured to receive a power characteristic measurement from the power meter, the processing circuit having a communications interface configured to communicate power consumption data to an external device, the power consumption data based on the power characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Gerald A. Asp, Justin J. Ploegert, Paul K. Schemenauer, Robert A. Fox, Daniel A. Mellenthin
  • Publication number: 20210216052
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to manage a plurality of entitlements for a plurality of subscriptions of one or more buildings with a building entitlement model, receive a first request to perform a first operation for a first subscription and a second request to perform a second operation for a second subscription, and implement the first operation on first computing resources of a first zone based on the building entitlement model in response to a first determination that the first subscription has the first entitlement and implement the second operation on second computing resources of the second zone based on the building entitlement model in response to a second determination that the second subscription has the second entitlement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto