Smart electric vehicle interface for managing post-charge information exchange and analysis

• US 8,725,551 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2008
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Utopus Insights, Inc. (Vestas Wind Systems A/S)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ambrosio, Ronald, Schurr, Allan James
• Primary Examiner(s): MARCUS, LELAND R
• Application Number:
  US12/194,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20100049610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,093 Days
• Field of Search: 705/7
• US Class Current: 705/7.31
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/20 by driver identification
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/12 Recording operating variables ; Monitoring of operating variables
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/30 Constructional details of charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 : Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 : the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/14 : Marketing, i.e. market research and analysis, surveying, promotions, advertising, buyer profiling, customer management or rewards

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle. In one embodiment, a user profile is updated with charging process data that is derived, in part, from a charging process between the electric vehicle and a charging station. The process then identifies a set of recipients of data from the user profile. The set of recipients include a set of third party principals. The data from the user profile is processed using a set of data processing rules specified by the set of recipients to form processed data. Thereafter, the processed data is transmitted to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle, the computer implemented method comprising:

responsive to receiving charging process data, specific to a user of the electric vehicle updating a user profile associated with the user with the charging process data, wherein the charging process data is derived, in part, from a charging process between the electric vehicle and a charging station and wherein the user profile is maintained in a user data repository;

identifying a set of recipients of data from the user profile, by associating the user profile from the user data repository with a set of third party profiles stored in a third party principal data repository wherein the set of recipients comprise a set of third party principals that offer incentives to users of electric vehicles;

processing on a computer processor the data from the user profile using a set of data processing rules to form processed data, wherein the set of data processing rules are specified by the set of recipients;

selecting a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals from a respective set of third party principal profiles, the set of incentives including at least providing access to a selected location of a user using charging locations visited for receiving charging to an electric vehicle; and

transmitting the processed data to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the set of recipients further comprises:

identifying the set of recipients from a set of user preferences.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of incentives further comprises providing access to a user to a selected location, the location based on usage of charging facilities at the location.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the charging process data comprises at least one of travel data and vehicle data.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the set of incentives comprises a reduced payment.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the charging process data further comprises a data type of charge data for information relating to charging of the electric vehicle.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the processing on a computer processor the data from the user profile using a set of data processing rules to form processed data further comprises:

selecting a data processing algorithm that identifies user data collected and processed before transmission by an energy transaction notification service.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 7, wherein the data processing algorithm selected identifies categories of raw data required by the third party principal for identifying incentives for offer to the user of the electric vehicle.

9. A computer program product for managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer recordable-type medium;

first program instructions for updating a user profile associated with a user with a charging process data specific to the user of the electric vehicle in response to receiving charging process data, wherein the charging process data is derived, in part, from a charging process between the electric vehicle and a charging station and wherein the user profile is maintained in a user data repository;

second program instructions for identifying a set of recipients of data from the user profile, by associating the user profile from the user data repository with a set of third party profiles stored in a third party principal data repository wherein the set of recipients comprise a set of third party principals that offer incentives to users of electric vehicles;

third program instructions for processing the data from the user profile using a set of data processing rules to form processed data, wherein the set of data processing rules are specified by the set of recipients;

fourth program instructions for selecting a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals, from a respective set of third party principal profiles the set of incentives including at least providing access to a selected location of a user using charging locations visited for receiving charging to an electric vehicle;

fifth program instructions for transmitting the processed data to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients; and

wherein the first program instructions, the second program instructions, and the third program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer recordable-type medium.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the second program instructions further comprise:

fifth instructions for identifying the set of recipients from a set of user preferences, wherein the fifth instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer recordable-type medium.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

sixth program instructions for selecting a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals, and wherein the sixth instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer recordable-type medium.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the set of incentives comprises at least one of a reduced payment and access by the electric vehicle to a selected location.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the charging process data comprises at least one of travel data, vehicle data, and charge information.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the fourth program instructions comprise:

seventh program instructions for transmitting the processed data to the set of recipients using at least one of a web service, an asynchronous event notification, and a mobile communications device, and wherein the seventh instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer recordable-type medium.

15. An apparatus for managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a bus system;

a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes computer usable program code; and

a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable program code to;

update a user profile associated with a user with a charging process data specific to the user of the electric vehicle in response to receiving charging process data, wherein the charging process data is derived, in part, from a charging process between the electric vehicle and a charging station and wherein the user profile is maintained in a user data repository;

identify a set of recipients of data from the user profile, by associating the user profile from the user data repository with a set of third party profiles stored in a third party principal data repository wherein the set of recipients comprise a set of third party principals that offer incentives to users of electric vehicles;

process the data from the user profile using a set of data processing rules to form processed data, wherein the set of data processing rules are specified by the set of recipients;

select a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals, from a respective set of third party principal profiles the set of incentives including at least providing access to a selected location of a user using charging locations visited for receiving charging to an electric vehicle; and

transmit transmitting the processed data to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable program code to identify the set of recipients from a set of user preferences.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processing unit further executes the computer usable program code to select a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the set of incentives comprises at least one of a reduced payment and access by the electric vehicle to a selected location.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the charging process data comprises at least one of travel data, vehicle data, and charge data.

20. A system for managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle, the system comprising:

a charging station, wherein the charging station exchanges electricity with the electric vehicle in a charging process and wherein the charging process generates charging process data;

an energy transaction execution engine, wherein the energy transaction execution engine controls an execution of the charging process; and

an energy transaction notification service, wherein the energy transaction notification service updates a user profile associated with a user with the charging process data specific to the user of the electric vehicle in response to receiving charging process data, wherein the charging process data is derived, in part, from the charging process between the electric vehicle and the charging station and wherein the user profile is maintained in a user data repository;

identifies a set of recipients of data from the user profile, by associating the user profile from the user data repository with a set of third party profiles stored in a third party principal data repository wherein the set of recipients comprise a set of third party principals that offer incentives to users of electric vehicles;

processes the data from the user profile using a set of data processing rules to form processed data, wherein the set of data processing rules are specified by

the set of recipients;

selects a set of incentives for a user of the electric vehicle, wherein the set of incentives are offered by the set of third party principals, from a respective set of third party principal profiles the set of incentives including at least providing access to a selected location of a user using charging locations visited for receiving charging to an electric vehicle; and

transmits transmitting the processed data to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients.