Patent Document ID: 4200911
Application ID: 05844123
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of controlling the distribution of physical phenomena to users of said phenomena over an interconnected multinode distribution network comprising the steps of: (a) measuring the user consumption of said phenomena at selected nodes and generated therefrom a set of respective normalized patterns of consumption of said physical phenomena; (b) generating a plurality of normalized user demand patterns associated with each of the nodes of said interconnected multinode distribution network in accordance with prescribed user characteristics associated with each node; (c) measuring the total consumption of said physical phenomena over a prescribed interval of time for each node of said network; (d) assigning, to each node in said network, a respective one of said normalized patterns of consumption, in accordance with a prescribed relationship between the normalized user demand pattern associated with said each node and the normalized user demand patterns associated with said selected nodes; (e) producing, for each node, a respective predicted user consumption demand pattern in accordance with the total consumption measured in step (c) and the normalized patterns of consumption assigned to each node in step (d); and (f) controlling the distribution of said physical phenomena over said interconnected multinode distribution network in accordance with the predicted user consumption demand patterns produced in step (d).