IMPLEMENTING DIRECT ENERGY METERING, AUTHENTICATION AND USER BILLING
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle owner comprising:
- installing an intelligent circuit breaker within an available circuit breaker power panel;
said intelligent circuit breaker communicating with an electric vehicle and a billing service;
said intelligent circuit breaker establishing user authentication, enabling charging, performing direct electrical energy metering, and sending billing information to the billing service.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and an intelligent circuit breaker are provided for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle owner. The intelligent circuit breaker is configured to be received within a conventional circuit breaker power panel without requiring infrastructure modification of the power panel. The intelligent circuit breaker communicates with an electric vehicle and a billing service, establishing user authentication, enables charging, performs direct electrical energy metering, and sends billing information to the billing service.
-
Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle owner comprising:
-
installing an intelligent circuit breaker within an available circuit breaker power panel; said intelligent circuit breaker communicating with an electric vehicle and a billing service; said intelligent circuit breaker establishing user authentication, enabling charging, performing direct electrical energy metering, and sending billing information to the billing service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. A computer program product for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle (EV) owner in hardware and software embedded system modules including an intelligent communication module in an intelligent circuit breaker and an EV intelligent communication, authentication, heartbeat module, said computer program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine readable medium, said computer program product including instructions executed by the hardware and software embedded system modules to cause the hardware and software embedded system modules to perform the steps comprising:
-
said intelligent circuit breaker communicating with an electric vehicle and a billing service; said intelligent circuit breaker establishing user authentication, enabling charging, performing direct electrical energy metering, and sending billing information to the billing service. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
-
-
16. An intelligent circuit breaker for implementing authentication, direct energy metering, and user billing for an electric vehicle owner comprising:
-
a predefined form factor configured for use in an available circuit breaker power panel receiving said intelligent circuit breaker; said intelligent circuit breaker including an intelligent communication module communicating with an electric vehicle and a billing service; said intelligent communication module of said intelligent circuit breaker establishing user authentication, enabling charging, performing direct electrical energy metering, and sending billing information to the billing service. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
-
Specification