Patents by Inventor Raj Vaswani
Raj Vaswani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230106789Abstract: Systems and methods for charging vehicles includes at least one mobile device and a utility network management center (“NMC”). The at least one mobile device is configured as an electronic utility device and includes a network interface card (“NIC”). The at least one mobile device is also associated with a utility billing account and at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is configured to communicate with the at least one mobile device and the at least one utility commodity meter over a network, locate the at least one mobile device, and monitor a state of the at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is also configured to determine a usage of a commodity based on the state of the at least one utility commodity meter and bill the utility billing account associated with the mobile device for the usage of the commodity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Raj VASWANI, George FLAMMER, James PACE, Jay RAMASASTRY, Donald L. REEVES, III, Brian MATSUO
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Patent number: 11528343Abstract: Systems and methods for charging vehicles. In some embodiments, a system includes at least one mobile device and a utility network management center (“NMC”). The at least one mobile device is configured as an electronic utility device and includes a network interface card (“NIC”). The at least one mobile device is also associated with a utility billing account and at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is configured to communicate with the at least one mobile device and the at least one utility commodity meter over a network, locate the at least one mobile device, and monitor a state of the at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is also configured to determine a usage of a commodity based on the state of the at least one utility commodity meter, and bill the utility billing account associated with the mobile device for the usage of the commodity.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, George Flammer, James Pace, Jay Ramasastry, Donald L. Reeves, III, Brian Matsuo
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Patent number: 10609562Abstract: To provide overall security to a utility management system, critical command and control messages that are issued to components of the system are explicitly approved by a secure authority. The explicit approval authenticates the requested action and authorizes the performance of the specific action indicated in a message. Key components of the utility management and control system that are associated with access control are placed in a physical bunker. With this approach, it only becomes necessary to bunker those subsystems that are responsible for approving network actions. Other management modules can remain outside the bunker, thereby avoiding the need to partition them into bunkered and non-bunkered components. Access to critical components of each of the non-bunkered subsystems is controlled through the bunkered approval system.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Wilson Chuen Yew Yeung, Cristina Seibert, Nelson Bruce Bolyard, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael C. Stjohns
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Patent number: 10455420Abstract: To provide overall security to a utility management system, critical command and control messages that are issued to components of the system are explicitly approved by a secure authority. The explicit approval authenticates the requested action and authorizes the performance of the specific action indicated in a message. Key components of the utility management and control system that are associated with access control are placed in a physical bunker. With this approach, it only becomes necessary to bunker those subsystems that are responsible for approving network actions. Other management modules can remain outside the bunker, thereby avoiding the need to partition them into bunkered and non-bunkered components. Access to critical components of each of the non-bunkered subsystems is controlled through the bunkered approval system.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Wilson Chuen Yew Yeung, Cristina Seibert, Nelson Bruce Bolyard, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael C. StJohns
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Patent number: 10193778Abstract: A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana van Greunen, Aditi Dubey, Kunal Pankaj Shah
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Patent number: 10169764Abstract: A permitting system for controlling devices in a system includes a permit issuing agent that receives a command to be sent to a device. Based upon at least one attribute of the command, the permit issuing agent identifies one or more business logic modules that is pertinent to the command. Each business logic module has a respectively different set of business rules associated with it. Each identified business logic module determines whether the command complies with the business rules associated with that module. If the command is determined to comply with the business rules of all of the identified business logic modules, the agent issues a permit for the command, and the permit is sent to the device for execution of the command.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Aditi Dubey, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael StJohns, Raj Vaswani
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Publication number: 20180234850Abstract: To provide overall security to a utility management system, critical command and control messages that are issued to components of the system are explicitly approved by a secure authority. The explicit approval authenticates the requested action and authorizes the performance of the specific action indicated in a message. Key components of the utility management and control system that are associated with access control are placed in a physical bunker. With this approach, it only becomes necessary to bunker those subsystems that are responsible for approving network actions. Other management modules can remain outside the bunker, thereby avoiding the need to partition them into bunkered and non-bunkered components. Access to critical components of each of the non-bunkered subsystems is controlled through the bunkered approval system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: Itron Networked Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Raj VASWANI, Wilson Chuen Yew YEUNG, Cristina SEIBERT, Nelson Bruce BOYLARD, Benjamin N. DAMM, Michael C. STJOHNS
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Publication number: 20180159753Abstract: A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana van Greunen, Aditi Dubey, Kunal Pankaj Shah
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Patent number: 9961550Abstract: To provide overall security to a utility management system, critical command and control messages that are issued to components of the system are explicitly approved by a secure authority. The explicit approval authenticates the requested action and authorizes the performance of the specific action indicated in a message. Key components of the utility management and control system that are associated with access control are placed in a physical bunker. With this approach, it only becomes necessary to bunker those subsystems that are responsible for approving network actions. Other management modules can remain outside the bunker, thereby avoiding the need to partition them into bunkered and non-bunkered components. Access to critical components of each of the non-bunkered subsystems is controlled through the bunkered approval system.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Wilson Chuen Yew Yeung, Cristina Seibert, Nelson Bruce Bolyard, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael C. StJohns
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Publication number: 20180082309Abstract: A permitting system for controlling devices in a system includes a permit issuing agent that receives a command to be sent to a device. Based upon at least one attribute of the command, the permit issuing agent identifies one or more business logic modules that is pertinent to the command. Each business logic module has a respectively different set of business rules associated with it. Each identified business logic module determines whether the command complies with the business rules associated with that module. If the command is determined to comply with the business rules of all of the identified business logic modules, the agent issues a permit for the command, and the permit is sent to the device for execution of the command.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.Inventors: Aditi Dubey, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael StJohns, Raj Vaswani
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Patent number: 9887893Abstract: A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana van Greunen, Aditi Dubey, Kunal Pankaj Shah
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Patent number: 9846882Abstract: A permitting system for controlling devices in a system includes a permit issuing agent that receives a command to be sent to a device. Based upon at least one attribute of the command, the permit issuing agent identifies one or more business logic modules that is pertinent to the command. Each business logic module has a respectively different set of business rules associated with it. Each identified business logic module determines whether the command complies with the business rules associated with that module. If the command is determined to comply with the business rules of all of the identified business logic modules, the agent issues a permit for the command, and the permit is sent to the device for execution of the command.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Aditi Dubey, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael StJohns, Raj Vaswani
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Patent number: 9689710Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying and targeting power outages are provided. Electric meters of a system receive electric power from power distribution equipment in a power distribution network and information that identifies the respective power distribution equipment from which the meters receive electric power. Communication nodes are associated with electric meters and receive, from neighboring communication nodes, information identifying each respective neighboring communication node and the information identifying the power distribution equipment from which respective electric meters, associated with neighboring communication nodes, receive electric power. A communication node of a particular electric meter can select a suitable communication node of a neighboring electric meter with which it can communicate. When the particular electric meter experiences a loss in power, it can then transmit an immediate regarding the loss in power to the selected communication node.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana van Greunen, William San Filippo, III, Sterling Hughes, George Flammer, III
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Publication number: 20170163508Abstract: A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana van Greunen, Aditi Dubey, Kunal Pankaj Shah
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Patent number: 9658081Abstract: The present invention provides a system including a utility network including a product distribution pathway for delivering a product, a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with the utility network to monitor at least one parameter associated with the product distribution pathway, and a management processor in communication with the devices and operable to poll at least a subset of the electronic utility devices in response to an input to evaluate performance of one of the utility network and the system in response to information relating to the at least one parameter. The evaluation can include a rule-based analysis of one of the parameter and the information relating to the parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, James Pace, Sterling Hughes
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Patent number: 9608887Abstract: A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jana Van Greunen, Aditi Dubey, Kunal Pankaj Shah
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Publication number: 20170083923Abstract: A permitting system for controlling devices in a system includes a permit issuing agent that receives a command to be sent to a device. Based upon at least one attribute of the command, the permit issuing agent identifies one or more business logic modules that is pertinent to the command. Each business logic module has a respectively different set of business rules associated with it. Each identified business logic module determines whether the command complies with the business rules associated with that module. If the command is determined to comply with the business rules of all of the identified business logic modules, the agent issues a permit for the command, and the permit is sent to the device for execution of the command.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.Inventors: Aditi Dubey, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael StJohns, Raj Vaswani
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Patent number: 9548995Abstract: A permitting system for controlling devices in a system includes a permit issuing agent that receives a command to be sent to a device. Based upon at least one attribute of the command, the permit issuing agent identifies one or more business logic modules that is pertinent to the command. Each business logic module has a respectively different set of business rules associated with it. Each identified business logic module determines whether the command complies with the business rules associated with that module. If the command is determined to comply with the business rules of all of the identified business logic modules, the agent issues a permit for the command, and the permit is sent to the device for execution of the command.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Aditi Dubey, Benjamin N. Damm, Michael StJohns, Raj Vaswani
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Patent number: 9464917Abstract: A utility meter may be read by sending a request to read the meter from a meter reading application, which may be located on a utility server or on an access point to a network, to a communications module associated with the utility meter. The communications module initiates a session with the utility meter, makes requests for data from the associated utility meter, receives the responses to requests for data from the utility meter, and terminates the session after receiving all the requested data from the meter. It then formats the responses with the data received from the utility meter, and transmits the formatted response to the meter reading application.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Brian Douglas Grady, Raj Vaswani, James Pace
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Publication number: 20160249220Abstract: To provide overall security to a utility management system, critical command and control messages that are issued to components of the system are explicitly approved by a secure authority. The explicit approval authenticates the requested action and authorizes the performance of the specific action indicated in a message. Key components of the utility management and control system that are associated with access control are placed in a physical bunker. With this approach, it only becomes necessary to bunker those subsystems that are responsible for approving network actions. Other management modules can remain outside the bunker, thereby avoiding the need to partition them into bunkered and non-bunkered components. Access to critical components of each of the non-bunkered subsystems is controlled through the bunkered approval system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.Inventors: Raj VASWANI, Wilson Chuen Yew YEUNG, Cristina SEIBERT, Nelson Bruce BOLYARD, Benjamin N. DAMM, Michael C. STJOHNS