Patent ID: 11958373
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 13:
14. A computer system for recharging the battery of an electric vehicle with a low state of charge (SOC), the system being implemented via one or more local or remote processors, transceivers, servers, and/or sensors, the system comprising:
a network;
an electric vehicle operatively coupled to the network;
a plurality of potential charging locations operatively coupled to the network; and
a server operatively coupled to the network, the server comprising a controller configured to:
determine an electric vehicle has a state of charge (SOC) below a predetermined threshold;
when the SOC is determined to be below a predetermined threshold, determine electric vehicles within the vicinity of, or a predetermined distance of, the low SOC vehicle's GPS location;
from among the electric vehicles within the predetermined distance of the low SOC vehicle, rank the electric vehicles based upon various factors including at least two selected from a group consisting of (a) distance to the low SOC vehicle, (b) similarity of route being traveled to the route of the low SOC vehicle; (c) travel distance to destination remaining; (d) remaining battery power or remaining miles based on current battery power; and (e) power available to transfer;
schedule a rendezvous for the low SOC vehicle with the highest ranked electric vehicle for recharging the low SOC vehicle, the highest ranked electric vehicle having an available battery power bandwidth sufficient to satisfy traveling needs of both the low SOC vehicle and the determined vehicle;

determine time constraints or availability of the ranked electric vehicles to charge;
re-rank or eliminate one or more of the ranked vehicles based upon the determined or evaluated time constraints or availability.