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 supply and dynamically receives energy from the energy supply. 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 supply 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.
Claims18
A method of operating an energy offloading system having a plurality of computational devices, the method comprising:
- operating the energy offloading system using energy obtained from an energy generation station, the energy generation station adapted to provide energy to a) an electric grid serving a plurality of paying customers and b) the energy offloading system;
- receiving, by the energy offloading system, an energy termination alert identifying a time in the future that the energy generation station will continue to provide energy to the electric grid but cease to provide energy to the energy offloading system, wherein the energy termination alert is generated based at least in part on a determination of a change in delivery of energy from the energy generation station to the energy offloading system;
- in response to receiving the energy termination alert, identifying at least one computational device of the plurality of computational devices that is in the process of executing a computation using energy obtained from the energy generation station;
- determining an attribute of the computation;
- based on the attribute, saving computational information related to the computation;
- and
- after saving, powering down the at least one computational device.
A method of operating an energy offloading system having a plurality of computational devices, the method comprising:
- operating the energy offloading system;
- receiving, by the energy offloading system, an energy termination alert identifying a time in the future that energy will no longer be provided to the energy offloading system, wherein the energy termination alert is generated based at least in part on a determination of a change in delivery of energy from an energy generation station to the energy offloading system;
- in response to receiving the energy termination alert, identifying at least one computational device of the plurality of computational devices that is in the process of executing a computation using energy obtained from the energy generation station;
- determining an attribute of the computation;
- based on the attribute, saving computational information related to the computation;
- and
- after saving, powering down the at least one computational device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.