Patents by Inventor Wendy Foslien Graber

Wendy Foslien Graber 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: 10545518
    Abstract: A controller for controlling energy consumption in a home includes a constraints engine to define variables for multiple appliances in the home corresponding to various home modes and persona of an occupant of the home. A modeling engine models multiple paths of energy utilization of the multiple appliances to place the home into a desired state from a current context. An optimal scheduler receives the multiple paths of energy utilization and generates a schedule as a function of the multiple paths and a selected persona to place the home in a desired state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien Graber, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Keith L. Curtner
  • Publication number: 20180101185
    Abstract: A controller for controlling energy consumption in a home includes a constraints engine to define variables for multiple appliances in the home corresponding to various home modes and persona of an occupant of the home. A modeling engine models multiple paths of energy utilization of the multiple appliances to place the home into a desired state from a current context. An optimal scheduler receives the multiple paths of energy utilization and generates a schedule as a function of the multiple paths and a selected persona to place the home in a desired state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien Graber, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Keith L. Curtner
  • Patent number: 9874885
    Abstract: A controller for controlling energy consumption in a home includes a constraints engine to define variables for multiple appliances in the home corresponding to various home modes and persona of an occupant of the home. A modeling engine models multiple paths of energy utilization of the multiple appliances to place the home into a desired state from a current context. An optimal scheduler receives the multiple paths of energy utilization and generates a schedule as a function of the multiple paths and a selected persona to place the home in a desired state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien Graber, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Keith L. Curtner
  • Patent number: 9154001
    Abstract: An energy management device providing a series of user interface enhancements that enable the creation and modification of energy management schedules. The energy management device may provide these user interface enhancements in connection with a touch screen interface, as the user interface receives and processes a variety of touch screen gestures from users intended to create and manipulate the energy management schedules. The user interface enhancements may include calendar views with customizable periods of interest, calendar views with overlays of scheduling and pricing information, and clocks providing runtime indications of specific energy consuming systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pallavi Dharwada, Paul Derby, Wendy Foslien Graber, Hari Thiruvengada, Anand Tharanathan, Soumitri N. Kolavennu
  • Patent number: 8761909
    Abstract: A system and method include determining a state of a batch process. Historical segments are retrieved from a historical database of trajectories of the batch process as a function of the state of the batch process. A model is created as a function of the retrieved historical segments. The model is used to provide state information about the batch process and may then be discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Navratil, Wendy Foslien Graber
  • Patent number: 8620634
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes providing information related to wind speed and direction prediction to a wind turbine energy prediction module, providing wind energy production prediction information to a resource allocation engine, and combining the wind energy production prediction information with information about non-renewable energy resources to provide an output identifying energy production resources to use for optimal load servicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Foslien Graber, Zdenek Schindler, Petr Stluka, Girija Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 8549658
    Abstract: A system and method are used to connect an installed device to a local premise network, such as a home network provided by a router in the home. A user may use a host device, such as a mobile telephone that is already connected to the home network to provide the home network credentials to the installed device without having to enter the home network credentials manually into the installed device such as a thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Datta Godbole, Wendy Foslien Graber
  • Publication number: 20130151012
    Abstract: A controller for controlling energy consumption in a home includes a constraints engine to define variables for multiple appliances in the home corresponding to various home modes and persona of an occupant of the home. A modeling engine models multiple paths of energy utilization of the multiple appliances to place the home into a desired state from a current context. An optimal scheduler receives the multiple paths of energy utilization and generates a schedule as a function of the multiple paths and a selected persona to place the home in a desired state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien Graber, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Keith L. Curtner
  • Publication number: 20130024685
    Abstract: A system and method are used to connect an installed device to a local premise network, such as a home network provided by a router in the home. A user may use a host device, such as a mobile telephone that is already connected to the home network to provide the home network credentials to the installed device without having to enter the home network credentials manually into the installed device such as a thermostat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Datta Godbole, Wendy Foslien Graber
  • Publication number: 20120296488
    Abstract: An energy management device providing a series of user interface enhancements that enable the creation and modification of energy management schedules. The energy management device may provide these user interface enhancements in connection with a touch screen interface, as the user interface receives and processes a variety of touch screen gestures from users intended to create and manipulate the energy management schedules. Specific embodiments described herein include calendar views with customizable periods of interest, calendar views with overlays of scheduling and pricing information, and clocks providing runtime indications of specific energy consuming systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Pallavi Dharwada, Paul Derby, Wendy Foslien Graber, Hari Thiruvengada, Anand Tharanathan, Soumitri N. Kolavennu
  • Patent number: 8041539
    Abstract: Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is used to model a process, and clustering techniques are used to group excursions representative of events based on sensor residuals of the PCA model. The PCA model is trained on normal data, and then run on historical data that includes both normal data, and data that contains events. Bad actor data for the events is identified by excursions in Q (residual error) and T2 (unusual variance) statistics from the normal model, resulting in a temporal sequence of bad actor vectors. Clusters of bad actor patterns that resemble one another are formed and then associated with events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Valerie Guralnik, Wendy Foslien Graber
  • Publication number: 20110020122
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving condition information from a plurality of condition detection sensors coupled to a wind turbine and receiving wind turbine controller information. An anomaly detection algorithm is applied to identify maintenance activities for the wind turbine as a function of both the wind turbine condition information and the wind turbine controller information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Girija Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien Graber, Tom Brotherton
  • Publication number: 20090143873
    Abstract: A system and method include determining a state of a batch process. Historical segments are retrieved from a historical database of trajectories of the batch process as a function of the state of the batch process. A model is created as a function of the retrieved historical segments. The model is used to provide state information about the batch process and may then be discarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Roman Navratil, Wendy Foslien Graber
  • Patent number: 7006889
    Abstract: A sensor placement algorithm uses process data to determine the optimal distribution of sensors in a distributed parameter manufacturing system. An automatic classification procedure maps any problems in the process to a predetermined set of process disturbances. A control procedure uses process data to determine the best control action that will ensure good system response. Methods for sensor placement, automatic decision tree classification, corrective action control and the apparatus to effectuate these respective methods are integrated into a design methodology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Mathur, Wendy Foslien-Graber, Sanjay Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 6856856
    Abstract: A sensor placement algorithm uses process data to determine the optimal distribution of sensors in a distributed parameter manufacturing system. An automatic classification procedure maps any problems in the process to a predetermined set of process disturbances. A control procedure uses process data to determine the best control action that will ensure good system response. Methods for sensor placement, automatic decision tree classification, corrective action control and the apparatus to effectuate these respective methods are integrated into a design methodology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Anoop K. Mathur, Sanjay Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien Graber, Hai D. Pham, Suresh Advani, Karl Steiner, Roderic Don, Simon Bickerton, Ercument Murat Sozer
  • Publication number: 20040220689
    Abstract: A sensor placement algorithm uses process data to determine the optimal distribution of sensors in a distributed parameter manufacturing system. An automatic classification procedure maps any problems in the process to a predetermined set of process disturbances. A control procedure uses process data to determine the best control action that will ensure good system response. Methods for sensor placement, automatic decision tree classification, corrective action control and the apparatus to effectuate these respective methods are integrated into a design methodology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Anoop Mathur, Wendy Foslien-Graber, Sanjay Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 6772044
    Abstract: A sensor placement algorithm uses process data to determine the optimal distribution of sensors in a distributed parameter manufacturing system. An automatic classification procedure maps any problems in the process to a predetermined set of process disturbances. A control procedure uses process data to determine the best control action that will ensure good system response. Methods for sensor placement, automatic decision tree classification, corrective action control and the apparatus to effectuate these respective methods are integrated into a design methodology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Mathur, Wendy Foslien-Graber, Sanjay Parthasarathy