Energy offloading system
AssigneeDrone Energy IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsRalph W. Lewis, Jacob Gadikian, Christopher Abramo
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Abstract
An energy offloading system is in direct electric communication with an energy generating system and dynamically receives energy from the energy generating system. The energy offloading system uses energy for high-load computations. The energy offloading system includes computers performing the high-load computations as well as servers, cooling units, and communication devices. When the energy from the energy generating system is terminated, the energy offloading system may power down these and other devices, or may switch these devices to an alternative power source. The energy offloading system may be portable.
Claims14
A method of operating an energy offloading system that operates off of excess energy from an energy generation station, the energy generation station adapted to provide energy independently to both an electric grid serving a plurality of paying customers and the energy offloading system, the method comprising:
- operating the energy offloading system using excess energy obtained directly from the energy generation station, wherein the energy offloading system includes a plurality of computational devices;
- receiving, by the energy offloading system, an energy termination alert including a time in the future that the energy generation station will cease to provide excess energy to the energy offloading system in order to provide the excess energy to the electric grid;
- in response to receiving the energy termination alert, identifying an active subset of computational devices of the plurality of computational devices, wherein the active subset of computational devices being those computational devices of the plurality that are currently active and wherein each computational device of the active subset of computational devices has an associated computational state;
- identifying the associated computational state of each computational device of the active subset of computational devices;
- based on an evaluation of the associated computational state of each computational device of the active subset of computational devices, saving at least some computational information of at least one of the computational devices in the active subset of computational devices;
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- after saving, powering down the active subset of computational devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.