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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6988025 | System and method for implementing XML on an energy management device A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple intelligent electronic devices (“IED's”) distributed throughout the power distribution system to manage the flow and... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980973 | Self-paying smart utility meter and payment service A payment service enables a credit account or a debit account of a customer to be automatically billed for utility usage based on a reading that is automatically taken by an electronic utility meter. A method for processing information relating to usage of a utility... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980928 | System and method for providing efficiency and cost analysis during steam path audits This disclosure describes a system and method for providing efficiency and cost analysis for a power generation unit. The system of this disclosure includes a current condition data acquisition logic that acquires a plurality of current condition variables for the p... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980793 | Apparatus and method for generating billing data according to contents of mobile communication system Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for generating billing data according to contents of a mobile communication system. The present invention has a packet data analyzing device for analyzing billing data records provided from the packet data service node and... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975947 | Power saving apparatus in an appliance Disclosed a system and method of lengthening a life span of a battery power supply in an appliance such as a portable appliance, notebook computer or the like. A power saving method in an appliance includes displaying a user set-up menu for a power saving on a scree... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975958 | Profile based method for deriving a temperature setpoint using a ‘delta’ based on cross-indexing a received price-point level signal A method for adjusting a plurality of controlled subsystems in a building or plant that facilitates cooperative energy usage with a utility provider. By referring to a single profile of adjustments that correspond to changes in the value of a utility signal and dist... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973410 | Method and system for evaluating the efficiency of an air conditioning apparatus Air conditioning chiller operating efficiency is evaluated in response to chiller operating parameters input to a computing device which calculates separately the efficiencies of the condenser and evaporator components of the chiller. Additional efficiency calculati... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6965319 | Method and system for energy management using intelligent agents over the internet A system for managing utility meters via internet. The system includes a central station able to communicate over the internet, and a plurality of meters. The central station includes an intelligent agent. Each meter includes a communication device connectable to th... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965756 | RF loopback test apparatus for data radio transceiver An RF loopback test circuit is adapted to be coupled to an antenna port of a digital radio, to determine whether the radio is functioning properly. A frequency generator outputs an auxiliary frequency corresponding to the sum or difference between the radio's transm... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963854 | Target pricing system A business process and computer system known as the “Target Pricing System” (TPS) that generates an optimum bid or value for a competitively bid good or service. The system is resident on one or more host processors in connection with one or more data stores, an... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961641 | Intra-device communications architecture for managing electrical power distribution and consumption A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple intelligent electronic devices (“IED's”) distributed throughout the power distribution system to manage the flow and... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958680 | Power line communication system and method of using the same The last portion of the electrical distribution system is used to provide high-speed communications to residential homes. An aggregation point interfaces a medium voltage power line with a point-of-presence, and a power line bridge enables flow of communications sig... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956500 | Real-time residential energy monitor An inexpensive energy monitoring device and method for measuring energy usage and power costs in real time. The invention can include an external type digital battery powered camera that can be mounted away from and adjacent to the outdoor utility meter on a rotatab... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957172 | Complex signal decomposition and modeling A system, method and program product for monitoring a complex signal for ultrasensitive detection of state changes, or for signature recognition and classification is provided. A complex signal is decomposed periodically for empirical modeling. Wavelet analysis, fre... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954646 | Data communication radio network In the wireless telegram communication (28) from data-generating, unidirectionally communicating terminal devices (12) by way of primary radio sections (10) and by way of subsequent bidirectionally operating data collectors (13) of a radi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952705 | Method, system and program product that utilize a hierarchical conceptual framework to model an environment containing a collection of items A method, system and program product are disclosed for enabling a user to construct a conceptual hierarchical framework representing a virtual or physical environment. The framework may then be populated with a collection of items. Users may graphically and intuitiv... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950730 | System for certified use of electrical energy The invention relates to a system for showing the origin of a certain amount of electrical energy generated by a first method, which is transported via a network which is also adapted to transport energy generated by a second method, wherein the system comprises: at... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947984 | System, method and computer program product for reporting in a network-based filtering and aggregating platform A system with accompanying method and computer program product are provided for reporting on the collection of network usage information from a plurality of network devices. Included is a plurality of information source modules for collecting network communications ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947854 | System and method for on-line monitoring and billing of power consumption The present invention comprises systems and methods related to monitoring of energy usage on a power line. In a preferred embodiment, this system comprises (a) an electronic microprocessor-controlled digital electricity metering device coupled to the power line and ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944555 | Communications architecture for intelligent electronic devices A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple intelligent electronic devices (“IED's”) distributed throughout the power distribution system to manage the flow and... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944523 | Recording and processing utility commodity usage The present invention provides a recording node (100) at a consummer site that is used for the receiving, storing, determining and/or sending of utility commodity information. The recording node (100) is an integral part of networks (370) or can... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941305 | Customer management system for automobile sales industry A computer-implemented method of collecting client contact data is provided. The method includes the steps of opening a client ticket session to create a client ticket, supplying the client ticket with information, and closing the client ticket session after a prede... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937946 | System and method for remote identification of energy consumption systems and components A system for remote energy consumption system identification of a facility includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The system also includes an energy consumption database accessible by the processor. The energy consumption database includes aggr... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933857 | Method and system for airborne meter communication An airborne meter communication system includes an airborne platform that communicates with ground based utility meters using radio frequencies. The airborne platform retransmits information received from the meters to a network operations center for further process... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6933835 | Data communication over a power line A signal is received from a first portion of a power line and at least a portion of the signal is converted to a non-electrically conducting signal. The non-electrically conducting signal may be communicated to a non-electrically conductive communication path. In th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925364 | Power market approach for device cooling A market-based approach provides temperature control for a number of areas of a heat-generating device. Bids for a cooling resource are generated, each bid associated with a particular area of the device. A market price is determined at which the cooling resource is... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925362 | Method of providing service which makes power distribution operation effective, and system A method and system for calculating profits shared between a power distribution company and a service provider, wherein the power distribution company purchases and resells electric power. The service provider provides consultation service to the power distribution ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922676 | Method and system for ordering items over the internet A system and method of ordering components over the Internet. A website owner would provide websites for one or more wholesalers including a home page for each of the wholesalers on the Internet as well as various cascading website pages. A customer would be able to... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909941 | Methods for the management of a bulk electric power market The present invention provides methods for managing a bulk electric power market. In an example embodiment of the invention, a set of inter-related process streams relating to the bulk electric power market are established. A plurality of processes for each process ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907375 | Method and apparatus for dynamic checking and reporting system health The present invention provides a method and apparatus for remotely analyzing and affirmatively notifying appropriate personnel of problems and events associated with an oil recovery system—comprising hundreds of oil rigs over a vast geographic area. The results of... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907381 | System for aiding the preparation of operation and maintenance plans for a power-generation installation In order to provide an operation and maintenance planning aiding system for a power generation installation which prepares an operation plan for a plurality of power generation units by making use of actual plant data and based on a total judgment including a variet... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904385 | Multi-utility energy control system with internet energy platform having diverse energy-related engines A multi-utility energy control system has control center computer(s) connected to various utility consuming systems and software that formats pertinent systems' energy data, stores, retrieves, diagnoses and acts in response to changes and includes a multi-utility ma... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904336 | System and method for residential emissions trading The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential em... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6900738 | Method and apparatus for reading a meter and providing customer service via the internet A method and system for monitoring usage of a utility at a remote location by a central station and incorporates a real time method for optimizing energy costs operationally by combining optimization algorithms and real time pricing data to lower costs to the energy... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6865450 | Schedule-based load estimator and method for electric power and other utilities and resources A method for schedule-based load estimation in a system including a utility energy provider and a utility energy consumer, comprises the steps of generating a near-term proposed schedule set containing at least one near-term proposed schedule for operation of power-... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6862580 | System and method for managing tier-priced commodity transactions In an embodiment, a method of operating a processor coupled to a network to manage the sale of a commodity is comprises providing bidders with respective prices for bundled products. Each bundled product comprises a commodity and a respective insurance instrument to... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856820 | In-vehicle device for wirelessly connecting a vehicle to the internet and for transacting e-commerce and e-business An in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business. The in-vehicle device and the Internet based data processing resources can effectuate a wide variety of e-mail, e-... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6853309 | Supply meter and method for reading a fixed supply meter An electronic image reader (9) is associated to a supply meter (1), for example a water meter, for measuring and displaying a measured value in an optically readable manner. This image reader is adapted for being positioned or guided in guide systems a... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6839696 | Guarantee charge processing method and apparatus The operation-state data of the uninterruptible power supply unit for the operation time of the uninterruptible power supply unit (UPS) deployed between the load facility and the commercial power source and used for the uninterruptible operation is provided, the gua... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6836083 | Illumination light supply system An illumination light supply system that can save users from the task of replacing defective light source lamps with proper ones, enabling the users to use illumination light over an extended time period, and can easily change the lighting atmosphere as requested by... | 12/28/2004 |
