Scoring charging events for electric vehicles
AssigneeRecargo, Inc.
InventorsLucas MANFIELD, Forrest NORTH, Armen PETROSIAN, Nick WILD
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Abstract
A system and method for ranking or scoring charging stations and/or charging events or sessions, and/or performing actions based on the ranking or scoring is described. In some embodiments, a charging station ranking engine is configured to rank charging stations, or potential charging events, based on feedback received from users of the charging stations, such as drivers of electric vehicles, or other dynamically determined factors.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- accessing context information associated with a potential charging event at a charging station,
- wherein the potential charging event is specific to an electric vehicle;
- determining a score for the potential charging event at the charging station based on the context information,
- wherein the context information includes information associated with reviews of previous charging events at the charging station, including information based on a date-weighted average of binary station reviews obtained via check-in actions of other electric vehicles at the charging station, and
- wherein the score for the potential charging event at the charging station is determined for the potential charging event of charging the electric vehicle at the charging station;
- and
- rendering an icon representative of the charging station along with an indicator of the score determined for the potential charging event at the charging station on a map presented by a mapping application associated with the electric vehicle.
A charging interface system, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storing instructions;
- one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and operable to execute the instructions from the non-transitory memory, the execution of the instructions causing the charging interface system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- accessing context information associated with a potential charging event at a charging station,
- wherein the potential charging event is specific to an electric vehicle;
- determining a score for the potential charging event at the charging station based on the context information,
- wherein the context information includes information associated with reviews of previous charging events at the charging station, including information based on a date-weighted average of binary station reviews obtained via check-in actions of other electric vehicles at the charging station, and
- wherein the score for the potential charging event at the charging station is determined for the potential charging event of charging the electric vehicle at the charging station;
- and
- rendering an icon representative of the charging station along with an indicator of the score determined for the potential charging event at the charging station on a map presented by a mapping application associated with the electric vehicle.
A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system of an electric vehicle, cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- accessing context information associated with a future charging event for the electric vehicle at a charging station;
- and
- determining a score for the future charging event at the charging station by:
- accessing a score previously assigned to the charging station;
- and
- updating the score previous assigned to the charging station based on the context information,
- wherein the context information includes information associated with reviews of previous charging events at the charging station, including information that is based on a date-weighted average of binary station reviews obtained via check-in actions of other electric vehicles at the charging station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.