California Institute of Technology

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Powerflex Systems, Inc.

Other

Fastsoft, Inc.

George S Lee

Steven H Low

Cheng Jin

Ryan Witt

Zachary J Lee

Darren Ng

Peter B Samuels

Daniel C Chang

Rand B Lee

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques electric vehicle charging management. In one example, a method includes: detecting a connection between an electric vehicle supply equipment and an electric vehicle; receiving image data depicting an electric vehicle charging scene; determining one or more candidate vehicles in the image data; for each respective candidate vehicle of the one or more candidate vehicles in the image data, determining one or more vehicle characteristics associated with the respective candidate vehicle; associating one candidate vehicle of the one or more candidate vehicles with the electric vehicle based on one or more vehicle characteristics associated with the one candidate vehicle; determining if a user account is associated with the one candidate vehicle associated with the electric vehicle; and determining a charging authorization decision for the electric vehicle.

Vehicle recognition for automatic charge management

Adaptive charging networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable the optimization of electric design of charging networks for electric vehicles. One embodiment includes an electrical supply; a plurality of adaptive charging stations; wherein at least one adaptive charging station distributes power to at least one other adaptive charging station; wherein at least one adaptive charging station is configured to communicate capacity information to a controller; and wherein the controller is configured to control the distribution of power to the plurality of adaptive charging stations based upon the capacity information received from at least one adaptive charging station.

Adaptive charging network using adaptive charging stations for electric vehicles

Adaptive charging networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable the optimization of electric design of charging networks for electric vehicles. One embodiment includes an electric vehicle charging network, including one or more centralized computing systems, a communications network, several, electric vehicle node controllers for charging several electric vehicles (EVs), where the one or more centralized computing systems is configured to: receive the electric vehicle node parameters from several electric vehicle node controllers, calculate a charging rates for the electric vehicle node controllers using quadratic programming (QP), where the quadratic programming computes the charging rates based on the electric vehicle node parameters, adaptive charging parameters and a quadratic cost function, and distributes the charging rates to the electric vehicle node controllers.

Optimization framework and methods for adaptive EV charging

A method of controlling size of a receive window includes transmitting packets over a communication channel from a transmitting device to a receiver, and receiving acknowledgment packets from the receiver, the received acknowledgement packets from the receiver including an advertised receive window size. The method further includes determining a backlog parameter for the receiver in accordance with the advertised receive window size, determining a queuing delay in accordance the received acknowledgment packets, resetting a size of a congestion window in accordance with a function of a current size of the congestion window and a factor proportional to the queuing delay, and resetting a size of a receive window in accordance with a function of a current size of the receive window and the backlog parameter. A network window is reset in accordance with the smaller of the size of the congestion window and the size of the receive window.

Dynamic adjustment of receive window utilized by a transmitting device

A method of controlling size of a receive window includes, at a transmitting device, transmitting packets over a communication channel from the transmitting device to a receiver, receiving acknowledgment packets from the receiver corresponding to the transmitted packets, determining a backlog parameter for the receiver in accordance with a parameter value in the received acknowledgment packets, resetting the size of the receive window in accordance with a function of a current size of the receive window and the backlog parameter, and after the resetting, transmitting packets over the communication channel from the transmitting devices to the receiver in accordance with the reset size of the receive window.

A method of routing communications over a network includes routing the communications to an intermediate destination, for example, a 'universal proxy,' using a first transport control protocol (TCP), and then routing the communications from the intermediate destination to a recipient using a second TCP. The intermediate destination optionally masks the source when transmitting information to the recipient, and performs packet loss recovery. Optionally, the second TCP includes TCP acceleration not utilized by the first TCP.

Network communication through a specified intermediate destination

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San Marino, CA, United States of America

George S Lee