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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2015
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alastair R. Gourlay, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Timo Bruck, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony M. Fadell, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Matthew L. Rogers, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Sloo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael Plitkins, Berkeley, CA (US);
Shigefumi Honjo, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
John B. Filson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. Matas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fred Bould, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Brian Huppi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system including a thermostat user interface for a network-connected thermostat is described. The system includes a thermostat including a frustum-shaped shell body having a circular cross-section and a circular rotatable ring, which is user rotatable for adjusting a setting of the thermostat. The system further includes a client application that is operable on a touch-screen device separate from the thermostat, that displays a graphical representation of a circular dial, that detects a user-input motion proximate the graphical representation, that determines a user-selected setpoint temperature value based on the user-input motion, that displays a numerical representation of the user-selected setpoint temperature value, and that wirelessly transmits to the thermostat data representative of the user-selected setpoint temperature.