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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
May. 19, 2011
Timothy M. Watkins, Chicago, IL (US);
Mario Landau-holdsworth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amber Case, Portland, OR (US);
Timothy M. Watkins, Chicago, IL (US);
Mario Landau-Holdsworth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amber Case, Portland, OR (US);
EV Patent Holdings, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus include a clustered charge distribution and prioritized charge distribution system for electric vehicles (EVs). Distributed processing units (DPUs) receive member information about an EV or EV user. A power distribution manager (PDM) is coupled to each of the DPUs. The PDM includes a prioritizer. The prioritizer determines a prioritization for charging the EVs based on the member information received by each of the DPUs. A method includes providing clustered charge distribution and charge prioritization for electric vehicles. The method includes sensing whether power is requested by any one of a plurality of EVs within a cluster, generating individual EV-specific information for the EVs using the DPUs, transmitting the EV-specific information to the PDM, and selecting and applying a prioritization algorithm based at least in part on the transmitted information.