# US 10,769,555 B2 · Performing actions in response to charging events

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- Number: US 10,769,555 B2
- Document ID: US10769555B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/155,704
- Filed: 2016-05-16
- Published: 2016-11-17
- Granted: 2020-09-08
- Earliest claimed: 2015-05-15
- Assignees: Recargo, Inc.
- Applicants: Recargo, Inc.
- Inventors: Nick Wild; Forrest North
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10769555B2

## CPC

- G06Q 10/02: Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
- B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations
- B60L 53/62: in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge
- B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
- B60L 53/67: Controlling two or more charging stations
- B60L 58/12: responding to state of charge [SoC]
- G01C 21/3697: {Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level (G01C21/3679 takes precedence)}
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

Systems and methods for performing actions in response to charging events, such as charging events associated with a specific electric vehicle and/or a specific charging station, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may receive a request from an electric vehicle to identify a charging station from which to charge a battery of the electric vehicle, provide information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle, receive from the one or more charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations, and provide the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A computerized method, comprising:
determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold;
in response to the determination that the electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold, sending a request to multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle;
obtaining from the multiple charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations for charging the electric vehicle in response to the request,
wherein the parameters associated with the potential charging events are dynamically determined by the multiple charging stations after and in response to receiving the request to charge the electric vehicle, and
wherein the parameters associated with the potential charging events include parameters that identify whether one or more charging stations of the multiple charging stations have successfully charged electric vehicles having a similar make and model to the electric vehicle below the battery capacity threshold;
automatically selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations; and
automatically reserving the electric vehicle to charge with the selected charging station.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a predicted route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle on the predicted route.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein automatically selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the multiple charging stations includes automatically selecting a charging station associated with a lowest cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a charge amount that is above the battery capacity threshold but below a total charge capacity of the battery.

### Claim 5

A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system of an electric vehicle causes the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
determining a battery of the electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold suitable to support a route of travel predicted to be driven by the electric vehicle within a certain time period;
obtaining from multiple charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events to be provided by the one or more charging stations,
wherein the information is obtained in response to a request sent to the multiple charging stations upon determining the battery of the electric vehicle is below the battery capacity threshold, and
wherein at least one of the charging stations dynamically generates parameters associated with a potential charging event at the one charging station in response to the request;
presenting a ranked list of the potential charging events to a driver of the electric vehicle based on the parameters associated with the potential charging events,
wherein the parameters for each potential charging event include:
a location of the charging station that charges the electric vehicle during the potential charging event,
a cost to charge the battery of the electric vehicle to a capacity that is sufficient to support the route of travel predicted to be driven by the electric vehicle within the certain time period buy lower than a full capacity of the battery of the electric vehicle, and
an indication that the charging station has successfully charged electric vehicles having a similar make and model to the electric vehicle during previous charging events; and
selecting one of the multiple charging stations to charge the electric vehicle based on the ranked list of the potential charging events presented to the driver of the electric vehicle.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a predicted route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle on the predicted route;
wherein automatically selecting one of the charging stations to charge the electric vehicle includes automatically selecting a charging station located within the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.

### Claim 8 (depends on 5)

The computer-readable medium of claim 5, further comprising:
automatically reserving the electric vehicle to charge with the selected charging station.

### Claim 9 (depends on 5)

The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein determining an electric vehicle is below a battery capacity threshold includes:
identifying a distance between a current location of the electric vehicle, locations of the multiple charging stations, and a predicted end point of a route currently driven by the electric vehicle; and
determining an amount of current charge of the battery is less than a sufficient amount of charge to drive the electric vehicle to the end point of the route currently driven by the electric vehicle.