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 10):
A method for electric vehicle (EV) charging, the method comprising:\n receiving grid capacity information via a communication network from a power grid, the grid capacity information indicating a load on at least a portion of the power grid; receiving station capacity information via the communication network from at least some of a plurality of EV charging stations indicating an availability of the at least some EV charging stations for EV charging, each EV charging station electrically coupled with the power grid to deliver electric power from the power grid to an EV electrically coupled with the EV charging station via a charging interface; receiving an EV charging request associated with a requesting EV; computing 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 identifying 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 communicating 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): 0.7450886327038608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763473215800122
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7182145015914759
- Mean Citation Score: 216.003232
- Max Citation Score: 221.45642
- Similarity Product: 174.27355720726368

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