PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913693
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["320", "109000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments facilitate charging of electric vehicles (EVs) in an EV charging network. The EV charging network can include an EV charging server in communication with a power grid and with a number of geographically distributed EV charging stations electrically coupled with the power grid, receiving station capacity information and grid capacity information therefrom, respectively. In response to receiving an EV charging request, the EV charging server can: compute a charging timeframe; identify one or more EV charging stations as available for charging the requesting EV during the charging timeframe as a function of the station capacity information, and as having at least a threshold associated power delivery capacity for charging the requesting EV during the charging timeframe as a function of the grid capacity information; and communicate an EV charging response via the communication network to direct the requesting EV to the identified EV charging station(s).

Claim (Index 1):
A system for electric vehicle (EV) charging, the system comprising:\n a geographically distributed plurality of EV charging stations electrically coupled with a power grid, each EV charging station comprising a charging interface adapted to deliver electric power from the power grid to an EV electrically coupled with the charging interface; and an EV charging server configured to be in communication with the plurality of EV charging stations via a communication network to receive station capacity information from the EV charging stations indicating availabilities of the EV charging stations, in communication with the power grid via the communication network to receive grid capacity information from the power grid indicating electrical load on the power grid, and, in response to receiving an EV charging request associated with a requesting EV, to: compute a charging timeframe according to the EV charging request by:\n determining a geographic location of the requesting EV in accordance with a receipt time of the EV charging request; \n identifying a set of candidate stations as those of the plurality of EV charging stations having respective station locations within a threshold proximity to the geographic location of the requesting EV; and \n computing a respective travel time to the respective station location of each candidate station from the present location, \n such that the charging timeframe is computed to account for the respective travel times; \n identify at least one of the plurality of EV charging stations as available for charging of the requesting EV during the charging timeframe as a function of the station capacity information, and as having at least a threshold associated power delivery capacity for charging of the requesting EV during the charging timeframe as a function of the grid capacity information; and communicate an EV charging response via the communication network to direct the requesting EV to the identified at least one EV charging station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40299
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13624883', '15730079', '13766518', '15706061', '15747549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.745316161469624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751045584992585
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7182950011725875
- Mean Citation Score: 216.003232
- Max Citation Score: 221.45642
- Similarity Product: 176.63356823580503

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test