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Mobile device with graphical user interface for interacting with a building automation system

  • US 10,095,393 B2
  • Filed: 05/27/2016
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile device, comprising:

  • a processor in communication with a memory, a network interface, a touchscreen, and an accelerometer that detects an orientation with respect to a gravitational center and communicates the orientation to the processor,the processor executing instructions read from the memory for a graphical user interface and displaying the graphical user interface on the touchscreen,the graphical user interface includes a portrait mode and a landscape mode, wherein the graphical user interface is displayed on the touchscreen in the portrait mode or the landscape mode based on the orientation, wherein the portrait mode and the landscape mode are switchable by toggling a position of the mobile device,each of the portrait mode and the landscape mode of the graphical user interface includes a screen and a navigation bar,the navigation bar includes a plurality of icons, each of the icons is associated with an interactive screen, wherein a selection of one of the icons by touching the touchscreen is detectable by the processor to display in the screen the interactive screen associated with the one of the icons, andthe graphical user interface is configured to receive operational instructions via the touchscreen, relay the operational instructions to the processor, the processor is configured to send the operational instructions to a remote system via a transmission from the network interface,the network interface receives operation schedule data from the remote system in real time, and the processor displays in the interactive screen the operation schedule data as an interactive graphic,wherein the interactive screen includes a portrait interactive screen and a landscape interactive screen,the processor displays in the screen the landscape interactive screen when the graphical user interface is in the landscape mode, the landscape interactive screen displayed includes an itemized operation schedule data of the remote system, wherein the itemized operation schedule data displayed includes displaying separately a scheduled operation setting and one or more exception settings which can alter the scheduled operation setting,the processor displays in the screen the portrait interactive screen when the graphical user interface is in the portrait mode, the portrait interactive screen displayed includes a net operation schedule data that is a sum of the scheduled operation setting and the one or more exception settings of the itemized operation schedule data of the remote system, and the portrait interactive screen does not include displaying separately the scheduled operation setting and the one or more exception settings of the itemized operation schedule data of the remote system.

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