Patents by Inventor Soumitri Kolavennu

Soumitri Kolavennu 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: 10670289
    Abstract: An HVAC controller controllable in response to a natural language audio message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, where the natural language audio message is translated into a command recognizable by the HVAC controller. The HVAC controller may be a thermostat and may include a housing that at least partially houses a control module, a microphone, a speaker, a display, and a voice recognition module. The voice recognition module recognizes a predetermined audible trigger from a recorded voice message or streamed voice message, and in response, provide one or more audio clips via the speaker and/or video clips via the display to assist users in operating the thermostat. A user may communicate with the thermostat via the thermostat and/or via a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Jay Nelson, Hari Thiruvengada, Preston Gilmer, Thomas Gessner, Martin Adamek, Martin Skala, Juraj Buno, Soumitri Kolavennu, Max Peterschmidt, Libor Horky
  • Publication number: 20200110605
    Abstract: A device for providing a localized executable functions platform to generate information for control systems. The device may comprise an I/O interface configured to communicate with the control systems, a memory configured to store a set of executable functions, and an executable functions platform configured to receive an initialization, determine an executable function needed to obtain information pertaining to a control system, access the executable function from the memory, run the executable function using input data for the control system, obtain the information pertaining to the control system in response to running the executable function, and provide the information pertaining to the control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Ramchandra D. Joshi, Heikki Laine
  • Patent number: 10614804
    Abstract: A voice controlled room automation system that includes a speaker device situated in a guest room, a hotel automation controller operatively coupled to one or more components in the guest room, and a web service operatively coupled to the speaker device and the hotel automation controller. The web service is configured to receiving voice commands from the speaker device, process the voice command using speech recognition, interpret the voice command to determine a corresponding command for the hotel automation controller, and transmit the corresponding command to the hotel automation controller. The hotel automation controller is configured to receive the corresponding command from the web service, and to carry out the corresponding command by interacting with one or more of the components in the room. In some cases, the hotel automation controller may be configured to initiate an announcement or query on the speaker device via the web service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ryan Gardner, Michael R. Sobanko, Scott Knecht, Arun Mahasenan
  • Patent number: 10588173
    Abstract: A Wi-Fi mesh fire detection system and methods therefor are provided. The system can include a plurality of access points, where each access point in the plurality of access points is wirelessly connected to at least two other access points in the plurality of access points. For example, a first access point can be assigned as a primary parent device to a third access point, and a second access point can be assigned as a secondary parent device to the third access point. The third access point can transmit a message to the secondary parent device when the third access point fails to confirm that the primary parent device successfully received the message transmitted by the third access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Huseth, Patrick Gonia, Andrew G. Berezowski, Soumitri Kolavennu
  • Publication number: 20200074836
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Rongbao Nie
  • Patent number: 10582450
    Abstract: A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
  • Publication number: 20200064001
    Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steven R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
  • Patent number: 10516965
    Abstract: An HVAC control system, wherein a building temperature is controlled to a comfort temperature set point when users are inside the geofence and is allowed to deviate from the comfort temperature set point when all users are outside of the geofence. The amount that the building temperature is allowed to deviate from the comfort temperature set point may be in accordance with how long the users have remained outside of the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Kevin L. Weirich
  • Patent number: 10508824
    Abstract: A building automation system may be controlled in response to a natural language voice message. The natural language voice message may be recorded and then sent to a voice command manager via a network. The natural language voice message is then translated into a command recognizable by a building automation controller of the building automation system. Voice recognition software may be used to create a natural language text based message from the recorded natural voice message, and the natural language text based message may then be translated into the command recognizable by the building automation controller. In response to the command, the building automation controller may perform the desired action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Marcus D. Stoner, Soumitri Kolavennu, Brad Paine, Christopher Goh
  • Patent number: 10454702
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a programmable thermostat are described herein. One or more system embodiments include a programmable thermostat having a first management profile; a data acquisition subsystem; and a data analysis subsystem. The data acquisition subsystem is configured to receive thermostat data from the programmable thermostat, and the data analysis subsystem is configured to receive the thermostat data from the data acquisition subsystem, and determine a second management profile for the programmable thermostat based, at least in part, on the thermostat data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien, Keith Curtner, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri Kolavennu
  • Patent number: 10436977
    Abstract: An HVAC controller may be programmed using a mobile device having a touch screen display, a wireless port and a controller that is in operative communication with the touch screen display and the wireless port. The controller may establish communication with and download an application program code from the remote download server. The controller may establish a direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller and execute the application program code, which provides one or more configuration screens on the touch screen display of the mobile device to enable the user to configure the HVAC controller via one or more configuration parameters, and then upload the one or more configuration parameters to the HVAC controller via the direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Bergman, David Quam, Jeffrey Stuart, John Amundson, Paul Schwendinger, Kevin Weirich, Michael Bruce, Soumitri Kolavennu, Steven Nichols
  • Patent number: 10371400
    Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steve R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
  • Patent number: 10267893
    Abstract: Systems and method of accuracy mapping in a location tracking system are provided. Methods include identifying a position of at least one location anchor on a site rendering, determining, for a plurality of positions on the site rendering, an estimated error value of location accuracy as a function of position on the site rendering, generating an overlay rendering of the estimated error values of location accuracy for the plurality of position on the site rendering, and the site rendering with the overlay rendering therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gonia, Soumitri Kolavennu
  • Patent number: 10271284
    Abstract: A GPS capability of a mobile device may be turned on in order to ascertain an updated current location and then be turned off. Position relative to the geofence may be determined based on the updated current location and a time to fence value that provides an estimate of how soon an individual carrying the mobile device could cross the geofence may be calculated. The GPS capability may be kept turned off for a delay time period that is based at least in part on the calculated time to fence value. After the delay time period, the GPS capability of the mobile device may be turned back on and the cycle of turning on the GPS, ascertaining an updated current location and turning off the GPS may continue. An indication of the position of the mobile device relative to the geofence may be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Kevin L. Weirich
  • Publication number: 20190072290
    Abstract: A building automation system may be controlled in response to a natural language voice message. The natural language voice message may be recorded and then sent to a voice command manager via a network. The natural language voice message is then translated into a command recognizable by a building automation controller of the building automation system. Voice recognition software may be used to create a natural language text based message from the recorded natural voice message, and the natural language text based message may then be translated into the command recognizable by the building automation controller. In response to the command, the building automation controller may perform the desired action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Marcus D. Stoner, Soumitri Kolavennu, Brad Paine, Christopher Goh
  • Patent number: 10174962
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device embodiment includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine energy consumption data associated with a structure at a point in time, and determine whether the structure is occupied at the point in time based, at least in part, on the determined energy consumption data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien, Keith Curtner, Prunaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri Kolavennu
  • Publication number: 20180365567
    Abstract: A voice activated knowledge management system may be used as a virtual assistant. In some cases, a knowledge management system may be configured to receive a voice request from a user, generate and send a knowledge base query to each of the two or more different knowledge base engines, and fuse the resulting responses from the knowledge base engines, resulting in a fused response. The fused response may be provided back to the user as a response to the voice request and/or may be provided as a device command to control a corresponding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Aravind Padmanabhan
  • Publication number: 20180347840
    Abstract: An HVAC controller may be controlled in response to a natural language audio message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, where the natural language audio message is translated into a command recognizable by the HVAC controller. The HVAC controller may be a thermostat including a housing that houses a temperature sensor, a microphone, and a controller. The controller may identify a trigger phrase in an audio stream provided by the microphone. In response to identifying the trigger phrase, the controller initiates processing of the audio stream to identify a command following the trigger phrase and to generate a command understandable by the thermostat that instructs the controller to perform the identified command. The controller then executes the generated command understandable by the thermostat. A user may communicate with the thermostat via the microphone of the thermostat and/or a remote device having a microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jay Nelson, David Bures, Petr Kasparik, Soumitri Kolavennu, Roman Konecny, Amit Kulkarni, Daniel Becvar, Martin Adamek, Juraj Buno, Steven Hoglund, Libor Horky, Jan Malek, Adam Nemcek, Martin Skala, Tomas Losak, Josef Novotny, Thomas Gessner, Preston Gilmer, Ix, Hari Thiruvengada, Christopher Goh, Robert D. Juntunen, David Mulhouse, Bas Timmers, Cary Leen, Heidi Finch
  • Patent number: 10145579
    Abstract: A building automation system may be controlled in response to a natural language voice message. The natural language voice message may be recorded and then sent to a voice command manager via a network. The natural language voice message is then translated into a command recognizable by a building automation controller of the building automation system. Voice recognition software may be used to create a natural language text based message from the recorded natural voice message, and the natural language text based message may then be translated into the command recognizable by the building automation controller. In response to the command, the building automation controller may perform the desired action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus D. Stoner, Soumitri Kolavennu, Brad Paine, Christopher Goh
  • Publication number: 20180328613
    Abstract: An HVAC controller may be controlled in response to a natural language audio message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, where the natural language audio message is translated into a command recognizable by the HVAC controller. The HVAC controller may be a thermostat and may include a housing that at least partially houses a control module, a microphone, a speaker, a display, and a voice recognition module. The voice recognition module recognizes a predetermined audible trigger from a recorded voice message or streamed voice message, and in response, provide one or more audio clips via the speaker and/or video clips via the display to assist users in operating the thermostat. A user may communicate with the thermostat via the thermostat and/or a remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jay Nelson, Hari Thiruvengada, Preston Gilmer, Thomas Gessner, Martin Adamek, Martin Skala, Juraj Buno, Soumitri Kolavennu, Max Peterschmidt, Libor Horky