Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Bolen

Stephen E. Bolen 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200162843
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking a wireless-enabled device. The system can include a hub configured to communicably connect via a wireless communication protocol to the wireless-enabled device and a back-end computer system configured to connect to the hub and a user device. The method can include setting a virtual boundary according to a threshold signal strength between the wireless-enabled device and the hub. Once the virtual boundary is set, the hub, back-end computer system, and/or user device can execute logic to send various notifications to users based on the wireless-enabled devices entering and exiting the virtual boundary, as determined by the wireless signal strength between the wireless-enabled devices and the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen E. BOLEN, Jonathan T. GREGORY, Isaac I. YATES
  • 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