Appeal No. 1998-1509
Application No. 07/811,509
The invention pertains to the controlling of an operating
environment in a control space, such as a house. More
particularly, the operating environment is controlled as a
function of any of a plurality of control space states or
designated conditions. Each of a plurality of separate
controllers is capable of conventional autonomous operation
but has the added capability of operating under centralized
direction from a state vector controller to function in
concert with the other operating environment controllers to
achieve a desired total operating environment.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A system for determining the operating environment
in a control space as a function of any of a plurality of
control space states by means of individually controllable
apparatuses responsive to operating point signals derived from
the control space states, the system comprising:
a state vector controller for supplying a state vector
signal indicative of any of a plurality of states of the
control space, the state vector signal specifying an address
for a control function in a set of addressable control
functions;
a plurality of operating environment controllers for
furnishing operating point signals to apparatuses affecting
separate parameters which characterize the operating
environment of the control space, at least each of first and
second operating environment controllers of said plurality of
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