SYSTEM COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWER MANAGEMENT
First Claim
1. A system for minimizing network traffic consumption in a power flow management system, comprising:
- a plurality of devices operable to generate, consume, or store electric energy;
a power flow management system, wherein the power flow management system manages power flow transferred between the plurality of devices and a power grid; and
, device information and power flow information communicated, via a network, between the power flow management system and the plurality of devices, wherein the device information is received by the power flow management system, wherein the power flow information is transmitted by the power flow management system, wherein the power flow information comprises an energy rate command received by at least one of the plurality of devices, andwherein the power flow management system reduces consumption of traffic traversing the network via a network traffic consumption reduction technique.
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Abstract
A system and method that minimizes network traffic consumption in a power flow management system is described. A minimization system may include a network to communicate device information and power flow information between the power flow management system and the devices. The power flow management system reduces consumption of the traffic traversing the network via a network traffic consumption reduction technique. In addition, this application discloses a system and method for communications protocol translation in a power flow management system that includes networks which connect electric devices and electric power supplies. One network utilizes a communications protocol that is different from the communications protocol utilized by another network. A communications protocol translation device communicates with the networks, and formulates messages from one communications protocol to the other communications protocol. The reformulated messages pass from one network to another network.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for minimizing network traffic consumption in a power flow management system, comprising:
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a plurality of devices operable to generate, consume, or store electric energy; a power flow management system, wherein the power flow management system manages power flow transferred between the plurality of devices and a power grid; and
, device information and power flow information communicated, via a network, between the power flow management system and the plurality of devices, wherein the device information is received by the power flow management system, wherein the power flow information is transmitted by the power flow management system, wherein the power flow information comprises an energy rate command received by at least one of the plurality of devices, andwherein the power flow management system reduces consumption of traffic traversing the network via a network traffic consumption reduction technique. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for communications protocol translation in a power flow management system, comprising:
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electric devices and electric power supplies connected via a plurality of networks, wherein at least one network of the plurality of networks utilizes a first communications protocol that is different from a second communications protocol utilized by at least a second network of the plurality of networks; a communications protocol translation device operable to communicate with the plurality of networks, wherein the communications protocol translation device formulates a message from the first communications protocol to the second communications protocol, whereby the reformulated message passes from the first network to the second network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A device comprising
a first transceiver adapted to be connected to a first network supporting a first network protocol; -
a second transceiver adapted to be connected to a second network supporting a second network protocol; a translation module comprising one or more processors programmed to execute software code retrieved from a computer readable storage medium storing software configured to receive, using the first transceiver, at least one application level message in the first protocol from the first network; decode the at least one application level message; encode the at least one application level message in the second protocol; transmit, using the second transceiver, the at least one application level message encoded in the second protocol over the second network. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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