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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2013
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyota Infotechnology Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Shimizu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Akihisa Yokoyama, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kazuma Sato, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kunihiko Kumita, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for managing smart grid communication is disclosed. The system includes a communication module, a discovery module, a translation module and a smart grid module. The communication module receives data initiating smart grid communication between a utility server and a communication node. The discovery module identifies a server protocol used by the utility server to communicate with the communication node. The discovery module identifies a node protocol used by the communication node to communicate with the utility server. The node protocol is incompatible with the server protocol. The translation module performs a protocol translation between the server protocol and the node protocol. The smart grid module handles the smart grid communication between the utility server and the communication node using the protocol translation.