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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING ENERGY USE Analyzing energy use comprises determining a location identifier associated with a site. Weather data associated with the site is determined according to the location identifier. Energy usage information associated with the site is determined. An energy metric for the s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109705 | DATA CENTER SYSTEM THAT ACCOMMODATES EPISODIC COMPUTATION A data center system is described which includes multiple data centers powered by multiple power sources, including any combination of renewable power sources and on-grid utility power sources. The data center system also includes a management system for managing execut... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083930 | ADAPTIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING CUSTOMER ELECTRICAL DEMAND INFORMATION FOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDE ENERGY MANAGEMENT A method for determining an amount of electricity to purchase includes determining electrical power consumption characteristics of an electrical load at an end user of the electricity. A preference of the end user for an output of the electrical load is ascertained. The... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120054123 | HOT WATER HEATER WITH AN INTEGRATED FLOW METER An apparatus and method are disclosed that monitors water of a water heating and storage system. At least one flow meter is integrated within the system having a tank for storing water to be heated. The meter is in communication with other devices in a home network and ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054124 | BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY DIAGNOSTIC AND MONITORING SYSTEM A system and related method are provided to diagnose and/or monitor energy efficiency of a building. The system includes temperature sensors positioned inside and outside the building. For various outside temperatures, the temperature differentials over time at the insi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054125 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM A resource management and control system includes real-time visibility to energy and water consumption. The resource management platform is flexible and allows users to create a system to suit their individual needs, and to make changes to that platform as their needs c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED, RANGE-BASED IRRIGATION A centralized irrigation system provides non-decision-making controllers in combination with a client server architecture that employs irrigation algorithms for monitoring and control. Live feedback means send information back to a server for use with sophisticated mode... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120022700 | AUTOMATED FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Systems and methods for building automation system management are shown and described. The systems and methods relate to fault detection via abnormal energy monitoring and detection. The systems and methods also relate to control and fault detection methods for chillers... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120005126 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND CHARGING/DISCHARGING METHOD Disclosed is a charging/discharging apparatus and charging/discharging method. According to the present disclosure, a user can suitably control a battery charging/discharging under a price changing system in which electricity price varies depending on time of day. To do... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005031 | REAL-TIME SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING, LOCATING AND RECHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN TRANSIT The present invention provides computer-controlled electric battery charging systems and methods for charging a battery of a roaming electric vehicle, the system comprising an electric vehicle comprising at least one battery, a master charger vehicle comprising a master... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005125 | PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISION OF POWER TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES The present invention provides computer-controlled payment systems for charging a fee for battery charging of an electric vehicle, the system including an electric vehicle including at least one battery, a master charger vehicle including a master battery module, a cont... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320056 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT WITH METERING AND COMMUNICATONS An apparatus includes an electric vehicle supply circuit, and a communication interface coupled to the electric vehicle supply circuit. In some embodiments, the apparatus may be adapted to function as a node for a mesh network. In other embodiments, the communication in... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING USE OF A BATTERY A battery optimization system and method for regulating and discharging a battery so as to optimize the use of the battery in accordance with the user's preference is provided. The battery optimization system includes a power source, a charging/discharging station conne... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307418 | MULTI-METERING OF ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION An electric metering system comprising a plurality of metering devices controlled by a metering controller. Each of the metering devices provides the controller with instantaneous measurements of electric current within an associated electric conductor. The metering con... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305326 | ENHANCEMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-USER REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM This invention involves additional details and uses for the invention described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 Simultaneous Multi-User Real-Time Speech Recognition System file by Poirier. The patent granted to Poirier teaches a platform based on audio events on which... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302108 | TRANSFERRING ELECTRIC ENERGY BETWEEN AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND A POWER DISTRIBUTION GRID In order to be able to perform the transfer of electric energy between an electric energy storage device of an electric car and a connection point of an electrical power distribution grid using relatively less effort, particularly with regard to the technical constructi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295610 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING INSTALLATION CAPACITIES OF HYBRID ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM A method for installation capacities of a hybrid energy generation system is disclosed. The hybrid energy generation system may include a plurality of power systems. According to the environment factors and practical requirements of the installation site, the mechanism ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289019 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT An energy consumption display arrangement, which includes a database in which is stored incident energy consumption data of a number of energy consumption sites stored over a period of time, a graphical user interface operable to retrieve selected consumption data of at... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282511 | Prediction, Communication and Control System for Distributed Power Generation and Usage A system for predicting, communicating, displaying and utilizing data that is relevant to the distributed power generation and usage of electricity service via means that are easy to obtain, easy to interpret, and inexpensive.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282808 | UTILITY CONSUMPTION RECOMMENDATION A computer-implemented method is disclosed for generating and presenting personalized recommendations of improving utility consumption efficiency of a dwelling based on an itemized utility consumption profile generated from historical utility consumption data. The compu... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282807 | System And Method For Transporting Energy A method for shifting energy in space and time includes charging an energy store from an energy source at a first location, transporting the energy store to a second location, and discharging the energy store at the second location to deliver energy to an energy consume... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110270783 | TRIGGER-BASED APPLICATION CONTROL Trigger-based application control may be provided. A work implement may receive an application trigger comprising a location-based condition. In response to determining that the work implement has entered the work area associated with the location-based condition, an ap... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264605 | SMART SERVER AND SMART DEVICE A smart server and smart device are disclosed, by which a new power unit price (hereinafter named a combined power unit price) can be calculated in consideration of an internally generated electricity quantity instead of using an external power unit price as it is. The ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258063 | POWER GENERATION LEVELING SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION LEVELING METHOD A communication part of a purchased power management device transmits, in response to an instruction from a user, rate information indicating a rate of power that the user wants to purchase to a sales management device. A charging part of the purchased power management ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246259 | METHOD OF EFFICIENTLY MANAGING ENERGY A method is provided for managing energy. The method comprises collecting information relating to amounts of energy stored by a plurality of members of a group, and relating to energy requirements of the members. The method further comprises determining a price for dist... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110231342 | ELECTRICITY USAGE PLANNER A device for aiding in planning electricity usage in areas that use time of day electricity rates is provided. The device consists of a compact digital electricity cost indicator that displays the current time, day, date, applicable cost structure such as season, weeken... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225105 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AN ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE FOR TRIP PLANNING One or more embodiments may include a trip planning system for planning a trip based on the charge of an electric vehicle battery. The trip planning system may include one or more computers located remotely from an electric vehicle which may have one or more battery pac... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225016 | CONSTRAINED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Implementation of resource management services is provided. A method includes setting a price, per unit of a resource, for a defined time period and based upon a collective projected resource demand corresponding to resource consumption entities (RCEs). For the duration... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218894 | Variable Taxation System and Method A variable taxation/variable goods control system includes a consumer database populated with a plurality of consumers, a goods database populated with one or more goods limits for a predetermined time period, and a tax rate database populated with at least a first tax ... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110202193 | Managing Power Utilized Within A Local Power Network Power utilized in a local power network may be managed. The local power network may include a power management system. The power management system may communicate with one or more of a circuit controller, a switch controller, and/or an outlet controller in order to mana... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202476 | METHOD FOR RECHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED RECHARGING STATIONS A method for recharging an electric vehicle in a recharging station of a network of geographically distributed recharging stations. The method includes: communicating availability of a recharging station to a control centre of the network; transmitting a recharge reques... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191773 | System and Method for Datacenter Power Management A system and method for datacenter power management is disclosed. In particular embodiments, the method includes receiving, with a processor, a request for execution of an application. The method also includes for each of a plurality of datacenters, determining an amoun... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191220 | METHOD FOR CHARGING A PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE A method for charging a plug-in electric vehicle with an external power source. In an exemplary embodiment, the method receives one or more utility rate preferences from a user, determines the utility rates of a local utility company, determines the total charging time ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191265 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HOST DEFINABLE PRICING An electric vehicle charging station network includes multiple electric vehicle charging stations belonging to multiple charging station hosts. Each host controls one or more charging stations. A charging station network server provides an interface that allows each of ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191266 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON PARKING AREA A vehicle includes a driving motor, a battery for the driving motor, a solar cell, and a control device for controlling charge of the battery using the solar cell and an external charge facility. A search unit searches a parking area near a present position of the vehic... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191267 | Water Distribution Systems A method for use in the design of a water distribution by determining whether to locate a pressure reducing valve (PRV) in a given location.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184888 | SYSTEM TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE WIRELESS POWER, TERMINAL DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS A system to transmit and receive wireless power, a terminal device, a management server, and a wireless power transmission apparatus may use non-radial wireless energy transmission technology to generate a resonant frequency in resonators and charge a device. The termin... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110178959 | CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL DEVICE A charge and discharge control device for controlling a battery in an electric vehicle to be charged and discharged with electricity, the electricity being transmitted and received through a power line, and being bought and sold, includes a switching unit, a communicati... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110178937 | Systems and Methods for Detecting Unexpected Utility Usage A utility management system associated with at least one multiple unit residential facility comprises an onsite metering system configured to monitor at least one metering sensor. A property management system is configured to communicate occupancy data for at least one ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110166913 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION REPORTING AND MODIFICATION SYSTEM Provided are methods and apparatus that determine a benchmark of energy consumption for an energy system and utilize the determined benchmark in a variety of ways. Once determined, the determined benchmark may be compared to current energy consumption and current outdoo... | 07/07/2011 |
