Patents by Inventor Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran
Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran 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).
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Patent number: 11307538Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
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Patent number: 11280509Abstract: A system for a building management system simulation includes one or more processors and memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a space agent representing a space in a building, the space agent to maintain an environmental condition of the space based on an optimization state of the space, generate an equipment agent representing a device that serves the space, and register the space agent and the equipment agent to a space communication channel associated with the space. The space agent communicates with the equipment agent over the space communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Sudhi R. Sinha, Youngchoon Park, Kelsey Carle Schuster, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran
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Patent number: 11275348Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey C. Schuster
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Patent number: 11258683Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
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Publication number: 20220044673Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson
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Publication number: 20220043410Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey C. Schuster
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Patent number: 11238055Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Ada L. Ma
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Patent number: 11158306Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson
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Patent number: 11151983Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
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Publication number: 20210302931Abstract: A system for managing communication between building management system (BMS) devices includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes instructions stored thereon. The controller is configured to execute the instructions to implement an agent manager, a zone manager, and a channel manager. The agent manager is configured to generate an agent for each of the BMS devices. The zone manager is configured to define at least one zone relating to a physical location zone or a building control zone. The channel manager is configured to generate a communication channel associated with the at least one zone. The channel manager is further configured to manage registration of an agent to the communication channel, wherein an agent is configured to communicate over a communication channel in response to being registered to the communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Sudhi R. Sinha, Karl F. Reichenberger
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Patent number: 11120012Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
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Patent number: 11113295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Sajjad Pourmohammad, Erik S. Paulson, Ada L. Ma, Gerald A. Asp
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Patent number: 11080289Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment configured to provide raw data samples of data points in the BMS, a data collector configured to generate raw data timeseries including raw data samples from the building equipment, and a timeseries processing engine. The timeseries processing engine is configured to identify an initial timeseries processing workflow that applies to the raw data timeseries, identify other data timeseries required as inputs to the initial timeseries processing workflow, and generate an enriched timeseries processing workflow that includes the initial timeseries processing workflow, the raw data timeseries, and the other data timeseries. The timeseries processing engine is configured to execute the enriched timeseries processing workflow to generate a 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Sajjad Pourmohammad, Erik S. Paulson, Ada L. Ma, Gerald A. Asp
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Publication number: 20210208559Abstract: A building management system includes an entity database, a software defined gateway, and an entity service. The entity database stores a plurality of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing a plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces and data entities representing data associated with the plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities. The software defined gateway is configured to receive information technology (IT) data and operational technology (OT) data from a plurality of different data sources. The entity service is configured to create a new smart entity in the entity database or update an existing smart entity in the entity database using the IT data and the OT data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
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Patent number: 11042144Abstract: A system for managing communication between building management system (BMS) devices includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes instructions stored thereon. The controller is configured to execute the instructions to implement an agent manager, a zone manager, and a channel manager. The agent manager is configured to generate an agent for each of the BMS devices. The zone manager is configured to define at least one zone relating to a physical location zone or a building control zone. The channel manager is configured to generate a communication channel associated with the at least one zone. The channel manager is further configured to manage registration of an agent to the communication channel, wherein an agent is configured to communicate over a communication channel in response to being registered to the communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Sudhi R. Sinha, Karl F. Reichenberger
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Patent number: 11024292Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson
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Patent number: 11016998Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
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Publication number: 20210104229Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
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Publication number: 20210104228Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson
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Publication number: 20210104227Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Erik S. Paulson