Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and power storage apparatus management system

• US 10,506,547 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Noma, Hideki, Ono, Tomoyuki, Kawashima, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Kayoko, Honjo, Ryoki, Tajima, Shigeru, Yamazaki, Daisuke, Sato, Kazumi, Ishibashi, Yoshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnes-Bullock, Crystal J
• Application Number:
  US15/059,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20160179119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,378 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1615 Switching on; Switching off, e.g. remotely battery saving circuits associated with selective call operation H04W52/00; details of power consumption reduction in a PLL, H03L7/0802, H03L7/14, H03L2207/08, H03L2207/18; muting amplifiers by gain control see H03G3/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/18 Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

In one example embodiment, a power storage management system includes a user terminal, a power storage apparatus and an information processing apparatus. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus is configured to, using a mobile communication network (e.g., Global System for Mobile Communications or the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), communicate with the power storage apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

obtain, from a power storage apparatus, first information indicative of an installed position of the power storage apparatus;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus;

transmit the first information and the second information to a terminal device via a network;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, third information indicative of a current position of the power storage apparatus; and

display a warning notification associated with status information of the power storage apparatus at a display screen of the terminal device, wherein

the status information indicates one of a presence or an absence of the power storage apparatus at the installed position, the status information being determined based on the installed position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the first information and the current position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the third information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to receive an instruction from the terminal device, and

wherein a charge operation of the power storage apparatus is started based on the instruction received from the terminal device.

3. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 2, wherein a schedule of the charge operation of the power storage apparatus is determined based on the instruction received from the terminal device.

4. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 3, wherein the schedule of the charge operation corresponds to a time interval of the charge operation.

5. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the first information indicates a stored amount of power in the power storage apparatus.

6. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the second information indicates at least one of a power charging mode, a discharging mode, or a stopped state of the power storage apparatus.

9. The information processing apparatus according to the claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

store, in a memory, the first information by associating with a first time at which the first information is obtained; and

store, in the memory, the second information by associating with a second time at which the second information is obtained.

7. An information processing method, comprising:

obtaining, from a power storage apparatus, first information indicative of an installed position of the power storage apparatus;

obtaining, from the power storage apparatus, second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus;

transmitting the first information and the second information to a terminal device via a network;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, third information indicative of a current position of the power storage apparatus; and

displaying a warning notification associated with status information of the power storage apparatus at a display screen of the terminal device, wherein

the status information indicates one of a presence or an absence of the power storage apparatus at the installed position, the status information being determined based on the installed position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the first information and the current position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the third information.

8. An information processing system, comprising:

a power storage apparatus; and

an information processing apparatus configured to connect with the power storage apparatus,

wherein the information processing apparatus comprises;

circuitry configured to;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, first information indicative of an installed position of the power storage apparatus;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, second information indicative of an operation state of the power storage apparatus;

transmit the first information and the second information to a terminal device via a network;

obtain, from the power storage apparatus, third information indicative of a current position of the power storage apparatus; and

display a warning notification associated with status information of the power storage apparatus at a display screen of the terminal device,

wherein the status information indicates one of a presence or an absence of the power storage apparatus at the installed position, the status information being determined based on the installed position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the first information and the current position of the power storage apparatus indicated by the third information.