Patents by Inventor Kathleen Dye

Kathleen Dye 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).

  • Multi-thermostat management and control system
    Patent number: 10718541
    Abstract: A control system for managing operation of a plurality of thermostats includes a server comprising a processor, a memory, and a communication interface. The memory device stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to display, on a display device of a computing device, a visual representation for each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats and one or more groups into which each of the plurality of thermostats is grouped, and further to assign an operating schedule to a group, apply the assigned operating schedule to each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats located in the group, and move one thermostat of the plurality of thermostats from a first group to a second group in response to a user dragging and dropping a visual representation of the thermostat on the display device from the first group to the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Abhishek Chakravarty, Stephen E. Bolen, Kathleen Dye
  • MULTI-THERMOSTAT MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180038606
    Abstract: A control system for managing operation of a plurality of thermostats includes a server comprising a processor, a memory, and a communication interface. The memory device stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to display, on a display device of a computing device, a visual representation for each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats and one or more groups into which each of the plurality of thermostats is grouped, and further to assign an operating schedule to a group, apply the assigned operating schedule to each thermostat of the plurality of thermostats located in the group, and move one thermostat of the plurality of thermostats from a first group to a second group in response to a user dragging and dropping a visual representation of the thermostat on the display device from the first group to the second group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Abhishek Chakravarty, Stephen E. Bolen, Kathleen Dye