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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2014
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Rao Sanyasi Yenamandra, San Diego, CA (US);
Naveen Kalla, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure involves determining charging equipment availability through crowdsourcing. Information is gathered from a plurality of electrically powered vehicle in a geographical region. The charging stations in the geographical region are displayed. A request is received, from a user, to determine occupancy of the electrical charging equipment at one or more of the charging stations during a specified future time window. A calculation is performed based on the information gathered from the electrically powered vehicles. The calculation calculates a probability of the electrical charging equipment at the one or more charging stations being unoccupied during the specified future time window. As a part of the calculation, a weighted probability is assigned to each charging station of being visited by at least one of the electrically powered vehicles. The probability is communicated to the driver.