Electricity Transfer System and Method of Providing and Using the Same
AssigneeElectric Transportation Engineering Corporation, d/b/a ECOtality North America
InventorCarmelo A. Carpinteri
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Abstract
Some embodiments include an electricity transfer system. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.
Claims33
1) An electricity transfer system comprising:
- at least one of an electricity transfer system network computer system or an application programmable interface configured to communicate with electric vehicle charging stations, the electric vehicle charging stations being affiliated with an electricity transfer system network and the at least one of the electric transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface being configured to administrate the electricity transfer system network;
- wherein:
- the at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface is operated by an electricity transfer system network operator;
- the electric vehicle charging stations comprise a multi-use electric vehicle charging station of a private host;
- the multi-use electric vehicle charging station is configured to operate in a private mode and a public mode;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the private mode, the private host establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode, the electricity transfer system network operator establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- and
- the electricity transfer system network operator offers one or more incentives to the private host when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode.
13) A method of providing an electricity transfer system, the method comprising:
- providing at least one of an electricity transfer system network computer system or an application programmable interface;
- and
- configuring the at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface to communicate with electric vehicle charging stations, the electric vehicle charging stations being affiliated with an electricity transfer system network and the at least one of the electric transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface being configured to administrate the electricity transfer system network;
- wherein:
- the at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface is operated by an electricity transfer system network operator;
- the electric vehicle charging stations comprise a multi-use electric vehicle charging station of a private host;
- the multi-use electric vehicle charging station is configured to operate in a private mode and a public mode;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the private mode, the private host establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode, the electricity transfer system network operator establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- and
- the electricity transfer system network operator offers one or more incentives to the private host when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode.
22) A method of operating at least one of an electricity transfer system network computer system or an application programmable interface, at least part of the method being implemented via execution of computer instructions configured to run at one or more processing modules and configured to be stored at one or more memory storage modules of at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or one or more cloud computer systems, the method comprising:
- executing one or more first computer instructions configured to communicate with a multi-use electric vehicle charging station of electric vehicle charging stations, the multi-use electric vehicle charging station being owned or leased by a private host and being configured to operate in a private mode and a public mode;
- executing one or more second computer instructions configured to establish who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode;
- and
- executing one or more third computer instructions configured to offer one or more incentives to the private host when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode;
- wherein:
- the computer instructions comprises the first, second, and third computer instructions.
29) An electricity transfer system comprising:
- a multi-use electric vehicle charging station of a private host, the multi-use electric vehicle charging station being configured (a) to communicate with at least one of an electricity transfer system network computer system or an application programmable interface and (b) to operate in a private mode and a public mode;
- wherein:
- the at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface is configured to communicate with electric vehicle charging stations, the electric vehicle charging stations being affiliated with an electricity transfer system network, and the electric transfer system network computer system being configured to administrate the electricity transfer system network;
- the at least one of the electricity transfer system network computer system or the application programmable interface is operated by an electricity transfer system network operator;
- the electric vehicle charging stations comprise the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the private mode, the private host establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode, the electricity transfer system network operator establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- and
- the electricity transfer system network operator offers one or more incentives to the private host when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode.
33) An electricity transfer system comprising:
- a multi-use electric vehicle charging station of a private host, the multi-use electric vehicle charging station being configured to operate in a private mode and a public mode;
- wherein:
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the private mode, the private host establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode, an electricity transfer system network operator establishes who is able to use the multi-use electric vehicle charging station;
- and
- the electricity transfer system network operator offers one or more incentives to the private host when the multi-use electric vehicle charging station operates in the public mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.