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Selecting a window treatment fabric

  • US 10,037,492 B2
  • Filed: 04/02/2015
  • Issued: 07/31/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of selecting fabrics for window treatments to be installed in a building, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a processor, input data associated with the building in which the window treatments are to be installed, wherein the input data includes data associated with a plurality of faç

    ades of the building;

    accessing, by the processor, fabric data that indicates characteristics of a plurality of fabrics;

    determining, by the processor and for each faç

    ade of the plurality of faç

    ades of the building, at least one predicted performance metric for each fabric of the plurality of fabrics;

    determining, by the processor and based on the at least one predicted performance metric for each fabric of the plurality of fabrics, fabric set scores for different sets of fabrics in the plurality of fabrics, wherein each fabric set score indicates a performance of a set of fabrics when each fabric in the set of fabrics is used in a window treatment on a different faç

    ade of the plurality of faç

    ades of the building, wherein each fabric set score of the set of fabrics indicates a combined score for that set of fabrics when each fabric of that set of fabrics is used in the window treatment on the different faç

    ade of the plurality of faç

    ades of the building wherein each fabric in a respective set of fabrics has a first fabric characteristic that is a different value and a second fabric characteristic that is a same value; and

    communicating, via the processor to a user, the fabric set scores for the different sets of fabrics, wherein communicating the fabric set scores for the sets of fabrics comprises displaying the fabric set scores on a visual display.

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