Patents by Inventor Seth B. Pollack
Seth B. Pollack 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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Patent number: 7949435Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power grid. The service optimizes power flows to suit the needs of each resource and each resource owner, while aggregating flows across numerous resources to suit the needs of the power grid. The service can bring vast numbers of electric vehicle batteries online as a new, dynamically aggregated power resource for the power grid. Electric vehicle owners can participate in an electricity trading economy regardless of where they plug into the power grid.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: V2Green, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, Seth W. Bridges, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20110025556Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power grid. The service optimizes power flows to suit the needs of each resource and each resource owner, while aggregating flows across numerous resources to suit the needs of the power grid. The service can bring vast numbers of electric vehicle batteries online as a new, dynamically aggregated power resource for the power grid. Electric vehicle owners can participate in an electricity trading economy regardless of where they plug into the power grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20110016063Abstract: A system and methods that enables smart charging techniques. A smart charging method may include periodically updated schedules. In addition, a smart charging method may include schedules with overrides. Further, a smart charging may involve a method for local load management in the presence of uncontrolled loads. A smart charging method for managing electric resources may also provide direct control over prices-to-devices enabled devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. POLLACK, Seth W. Bridges
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Publication number: 20110015799Abstract: A system and methods that enables smart charging for electric resources. A smart charging method may include smart charging customer guarantees. The charging behavior guarantee may comprise a guaranteed charging schedule that matches a regular charging schedule of an electric resource and provides power flow flexibility. In addition, a smart charging method may manage electric resources via a smart charging benefit analysis. A smart charging benefit may include an impact resulting from the energy management system which is beneficial to an electric resource. A smart charging method may manage the charging behavior of the electric resources on a grid based on the smart charging benefit. Further, a smart charging method may manage electric resources via a smart charging benefit analysis and smart charging customer guarantees.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. POLLACK, Seth W. Bridges
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Publication number: 20110004358Abstract: A system and methods that enables power flow management at the local level. A power flow manager can coordinate the charging activities of electrical devices, such as electric vehicles. Power flow decisions may based on the site-level information. In addition, power flow management strategies may be optimized. An optimizer can choose a power flow management strategy and electrical devices for implementing a strategy. In the event of a system failure, power spikes may be avoided by using safe failure modes to provide that the charging activities be coordinated in a predictable and non-disruptive manner. The cost of providing power may be reduced using generation stacks of power production. As such, the total daily cost of providing energy generation may be minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, Seth W. Bridges, Joby Lafky, Zachary Axelrod
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Publication number: 20110001356Abstract: A system and methods that enables power flow management using AGC commands to control power resources. Power regulation can be apportioned to the power resources. An AGC command requesting an apportioned amount of the power regulation may be transmitted to a power resource. The power flow manager can determine a power regulation range for a power resource, and transmit an AGC command based on the power regulation range. In addition, a power flow management system can detect a change in an intermittent power flow and implement a power flow strategy in response to the change in the intermittent power flow. The power flow strategy may be a smoothing strategy or a leveling strategy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: GridPoint, Inc.Inventor: Seth B. Pollack
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Patent number: 7844370Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power grid. The service optimizes power flows to suit the needs of each resource and each resource owner, while aggregating flows across numerous resources to suit the needs of the power grid. The service can bring vast numbers of electric vehicle batteries online as a new, dynamically aggregated power resource for the power grid. Electric vehicle owners can participate in an electricity trading economy regardless of where they plug into the power grid.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, Seth W. Bridges, David L. Kaplan
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Patent number: 7747739Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power grid. The service optimizes power flows to suit the needs of each resource and each resource owner, while aggregating flows across numerous resources to suit the needs of the power grid. The service can bring vast numbers of electric vehicle batteries online as a new, dynamically aggregated power resource for the power grid. Electric vehicle owners can participate in an electricity trading economy regardless of where they plug into the power grid.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: GridPoint, Inc.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090200988Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a method includes a establishing a communication connection with each of multiple electric resources connected to a power grid, receiving an energy generation signal from a power grid operator, and controlling a number of the electric resources being charged by the power grid as a function of the energy generation signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: V2Green, Inc.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090066287Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a method includes determining a level of renewable energy on a power grid, determining a price of electricity on the power grid, and scheduling a charging of an electric resource connected to the power grid as a function of the price of electricity on the power grid and the level of renewable energy on the power grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: V2GREEN, INC.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, Seth W. Bridges, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090063680Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a method includes charging an electric resource over a power connection to an electric network, obtaining a unique identifier of a device over the power connection, and determining an electric network location of the electric resource from the unique identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: V2GREEN, INC.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090043519Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a meter operable to measure bidirectional energy transfer between an electric resource and a power grid during fixed or variable intervals of time, and an interface coupled to the meter and operable to send the measurements to a service that aggregates power of distributed electric resources as a function of the measurements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: V2GREEN, INC.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090040029Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a system includes a transceiver device physically coupled to an electric resource, the transceiver device being configured to provide information about the electric resource to a charging component. Additionally, such a system may include a charging component, the charging component being coupled to the electric resource via a charging medium and communicatively coupled to the transceiver device. The charging component may also be configured to receive the electric resource information from the transceiver and, in response, effectuate charge control management of the electric resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: V2GREEN, INC.Inventors: Seth W. Bridges, Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan
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Publication number: 20090043520Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, an electric charging station connected to a power grid includes a power connection operable to connect an electric resource to the electric charging station. Additionally, the electric charging station includes a user interface operable to provide a user access to information associated with the electric resource and the power grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: V2GREEN, INC.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, Seth W. Bridges, David L. Kaplan
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Patent number: 7478405Abstract: An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gerald L. Hinson, Mohsen M. Al-Ghosein, Donald W. Dumitru, Donald J. McCrady, Seth B. Pollack, Stephen T. Swartz
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Publication number: 20080249965Abstract: Systems and methods are described for collecting and distributing environmental impact offset payments at the point of sale of a fuel. An exemplary method presents a user interface at a point of sale of a purchase of a fuel, receives via the user interface a user-selection indicating an intention of the user to pay an environmental impact offset fee associated with the purchase, presents a choice to the user of making a custom offset payment or of buying a fuel that has the offset fee included in the price of the fuel, and calculates a custom offset payment for the purchase. The custom offset payment can be based on such considerations as an energy equivalency of the fuel purchased, volume or weight of the fuel being purchased, fuel type, fuel grade, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: V2Green, Inc.Inventors: Seth B. Pollack, David L. Kaplan, Seth W. Bridges
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Patent number: 7430738Abstract: Improved methods and arrangements are provided in which a web server or like process includes a kernel-mode universal listener (UL) capability that utilizes the URL associated with an HTTP request to determine which user-mode worker process/application is to handle the request and route the request to the targeted worker process/application. Thus, for example, one implementation includes a kernel-mode HTTP listener that is selectively configured via a Web admin service (WAS) based a configuration store. The resulting configuration file in the kernel-mode UL process defines a plurality of configuration groups and application pools, etc. The Configuration groups include certain URL's, which have configurable properties applied to them. The configurable properties define which user-mode worker process is to handle HTTP requests. Fore example, application pools can be provided, which identify a worker process or processes that the HTTP requests are routed to.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henry L. Sanders, Eric D. Deily, Charles K. Moore, Seth B. Pollack, David R. Treadwell
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Patent number: 7237245Abstract: An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gerald L. Hinson, Mohsen M. Al-Ghosein, Donald W. Dumitru, Donald J. McCrady, Seth B. Pollack, Stephen T. Swartz
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Patent number: 7225362Abstract: A web server arrangement is provided having a kernel-mode listener service capable of receiving web requests and providing the web requests to at least one user mode web application. The listener service and the web application are operatively configured by a user-mode administrative process. The administrative process is configured to determine when a web application needs to be recycled and to selectively recycle web applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Eric D. Deily, Asim Mitra, Seth B. Pollack, Charles K. Moore, Andy Morrison, Rayner S. D′Souza, Douglas C. Hebenthal, Michael Courage, Vasilios Karagounis, Emily Kruglick, Wade Hilmo
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Patent number: 6829770Abstract: An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1999Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gerald L. Hinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, Donald W. Dumitru, Donald J. McCrady, Seth B. Pollack, Stephen T. Swartz