379 results about "User charge" patented technology

A computerized method and system for combined billing for at least one customer on a plurality of customer accounts includes computer applications which automatically assemble and aggregate account charges, such as usage charges, fees, finance charges, discounts, rebates and rewards, for the customer on the plurality of accounts. The system also automatically formats a combined bill for the customer from the aggregated account charges and renders the combined bill to the customer. The account charges are automatically calculated by a computer application from account data for the customer's accounts, which is transmitted to the computer application from one or more storage devices, for example from vendors of energy, such as electricity and gas service, retail, such as credit cards, and communications, such as telephone and Internet service.

A system and method for paper-based, automated completion of forms allows a user charged with filling out multiple forms containing some common information to write each unique piece of information one time, and the system generates a set of completed forms with the required information on each form with no change to the use or structure of the current forms. The control module is operable on a processor to determine a mapping between common fields on multiple forms or multiple pages of the same form, copy information written in a field on one form to equivalent fields on other forms, and produce a set of completed forms. The system is computationally simple and independent of language because these operations can be performed without having to understand, translate or convert the writing. Furthermore, there is no loss of security or privacy beyond the use of paper forms because these operations can be performed without access to a centralized database and without connectivity to other systems. The system is advantageous because it does not change paper based workflows since the inputs and outputs of this system are paper.

Methods and systems for collecting, managing, distributing and updating geophysical data primarily for E&P companies include in one embodiment the sale of subscriptions entitling paid subscribers access to all subscribed data including both preview and full data. Initial and subsequent data providers are preferably compensated from subscriber fees and may be compensated based on relative subscriber use of data. Data subscriptions can include for subscribers the right to vote or otherwise provide input relating to desired data updates. Data updates are preferably purchased based on competitive bids. The inventive systems and methods diminish much of the risk and uncertainty associated with the collection, management, distribution and updating of geophysical data under current methodologies, making the process more efficient and cost-effective for participating parties.

The inventive system includes a method to let participants in a value chain of digital and physical goods to package resources into sellable services and products, keep track of consumption of the resources and calculate charges to the end users and revenues to all participants. The participants to such supply chain include but not limited to resource suppliers, distributors, aggregators, resellers and service providers. The resources include but not limited to digital goods such as computing capacity, storage, content, software applications, data depository or special data acquisition instruments and physical goods such as commodity and manufactured items. Through this invention, resource supplies and consumptions and thus charges and revenues can be tracked and accounted for simultaneously. Any participants to the supply chain can host such system on behalf of itself and other participants. A participant can package resources into sellable units, track the resource supply by its suppliers and consumption by its customers, determine end users charges and revenues according to pricing structures and business rules including end user charges, loyalties, commissions, reseller fees, and roaming tariff, etc. When compared with the traditional methods, this invention tracks in real time all resource supplies and consumptions across the value chain simultaneously, in both actual resource unit and economic value. The invention can be realized in a combination of both hardware and software.

This disclosure relates to methods and systems for monitoring network usage according to predetermined rules and calculating user charges based on the network usage. The described technique includes receiving a data packet, extracting parameters from the data packet and determining whether the extracted parameters match at least one rule in a rules engine. Charges for the data packet are calculated based on the matched rules. The data packet is forwarded on to its destination.

The invention discloses an electric vehicle orderly charging control method, which mainly comprises the following steps: firstly obtaining the probability distribution of the electric vehicle daily traveling mileage, the last trip end time and the charging time length according to the use situation of the electric vehicle; simulating the distribution of electric vehicle charging load in differentperiods of 24 hours a day through the Monte Carlo method; accessing the load of the electric vehicle into the IEEE 33-bus distribution system randomly, and calculating the voltage amplitude and network loss of each node of the distribution system through the forward-backward substitution power flow calculation method; constructing an electric vehicle orderly charging optimal dispatching model based on an electricity price guidance scheme according to the 24-hour charging power demand model of the electric vehicle and the negative influence of disordered charging on the distribution network. The optimal dispatching model optimizes the dispatching of the electricity price and grid peak-valley difference to reduce daily load peak-valley difference and electric vehicle user charging cost, andalleviates the influence of electric vehicle access on the grid.

The invention provides a parking lot management system based on video technology. The system comprises an entrance and exit control system, a parking guidance system, a vehicle identification system, a security monitoring system and a user charge system. The entrance and exit control system realizes vehicle detection, card issuing, card reading, the obtainment of the image information of a vehicle, vehicle characteristic information matching, parking space information display and the control of a gate through an underground detection coil, and the automatic entering and leaving of the vehicle are realized. The parking guidance system finds an available parking space number suitable for the parking of a user according to the vehicle type of a parking user and gives a path indication to the user. The vehicle identification system provides vehicle model information for parking guidance and provides basic information for vehicle license plate comparison and vehicle model matching and color matching in vehicle release through calling the video collected by entrance and exit video acquisition equipment. The security monitoring system monitors the state in a parking lot in real time. The user charge system is responsible for the charging of parking fees.

The invention discloses a method for optimizing a charging path of an electric automobile based on user travel rules. The method comprises the following steps: (1) counting the owner travel characteristic; (2) performing data acquisition, wherein the data comprises data related to the electric automobile travel characteristic as well as data of charging stations and road congestion conditions; (3)establishing a traffic network, namely establishing a regional traffic network comprising nodes and two-way edges; (4) performing data analysis and processing, namely counting habitual charging stations and charging time of the owner, generating corresponding travel links, and correcting the analytical result according to the survey results in the (1); (5) establishing an electric automobile charging path optimization model; and (6) selecting the optimal charging requirement guided traveling path integrating the charging time, traveling path and cost for owner preference from the multiple travel links by utilizing the electric automobile charging path optimization model. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the travel path corresponding to the travel requirements is provided for the user by fully considering the regional historical circumstances and user charging habits, the defect that the real-time path planning system has harsh requirements on communication hardwarefacilities is overcome, and the charging path is personalized.

The method for distributing advertisement information images includes steps of: loading an advertisement information image into a subscriber's cellular phone; demonstrating the advertisement information image at the cellular phone; viewing the advertisement information image; and compensating the user's expenses arisen from using the cellular phone. The subscriber fills up a questionnaire, on which basis the advertiser selects subscribers for distributing his / her advertisement information image, as which to the cellular phone subscriber is sent the advertisement information image for which the subscriber has subscribed when filling up the questionnaire. The step of loading said advertisement information image to the cellular phone subscriber being carried out with his / her consent and according to the media plan of the advertiser till receiving to the cellular phone an incoming / outgoing call, or incoming / outgoing SMS and / or MMS message. The step of demonstrating said advertisement information image being carried out at the time of the incoming / outgoing call or incoming / outgoing SMS and / or MMS message. The step of viewing said advertisement information image being carried out by the subscriber till the time of the call reply, and / or at the time of the call termination, and / or till the time of the SMS and MMS message view and reply. The advertisement information image is on the mobile phone screen during entire continuance of the conversation or until the call release and / or the SMS and MMS message reply. The step of compensating the user's expenses being carried out by means of receiving monetary reward to the user's account for every demonstration of the advertisement information image. When receiving a new SMS and / or MMS message at the time of viewing the advertisement information image, on the phone screen emerges a notification not impeding to view the advertisement information and meaning the fact of receiving the new SMS or MMS message for the subscriber or a new advertisement information image. The advertisement information image presented on the mobile phone screen is accompanied with corresponding voice or musical or sound accompaniment being a part of the advertisement information image. The advertisement information image coming to the subscriber's mobile phone screen is scaled in accordance with the size of the mobile phone screen. The monetary reward received to the subscriber's account could be used by him / her for paying the communication service and / or any other services, and / or cashed by the subscriber.

The invention discloses a portable device that allows the user to access the Internet and World Wide Web. The portable device includes a modem that connects to a cellular telephone, thus the portable device connects wirelessly to the Internet. A host computer that may also be a Web server, is connected to the Internet and comprises various software programs to translate and compress into bit map or raster images the information received from the Internet. The compressed image is sent the portable device and the device is capable of decompressing the compressed image. Thus, the user views a bit map image of a Web page. The portable device further comprises methods of pointing and clicking on text and images which represent links to other pages. All commands that the user enters into the portable device are sent to the host computer, which performs the commands via a virtual browser, and sends the information back to the portable device. The user may also be charged fees for the purchase of the device as well as monthly fees for the usage.

The invention discloses an electric vehicle charging station charging optimization method based on a photovoltaic power generation system. The method includes the steps that a photovoltaic power generation characteristic curve, an electric vehicle charging load and the number of electric vehicles on that day are predicted respectively; an electric vehicle user price response model and a charging service price optimization model are established; an objective function is established with minimization of photovoltaic power generation abandon quantity as an object and is solved, and charging station operation on that day is conducted according to the obtained charging service price result on that day; charging operation on that day is finished, and a charging load prediction of the next day and an inflection point value of a corresponding electric vehicle user charging service price module are corrected according to practical situations of that day; the steps are repeated according to corrected parameter values, and charging station operation of the next day is optimized. Influence of charging of the electric vehicles on a power grid can be effectively eliminated, the photovoltaic utilization rate is increased, and charging cost of electric vehicle users is lowered.

The invention discloses a scheduling control method for participating power distribution network voltage regulation by electric vehicles. A scheduling optimization model of an electric vehicle charging station is established by using power distribution network voltage stability, electric vehicle charger technical condition, electric vehicle user charging requirement and the like as constraint conditions and using profit maximization as an objective function, then an optimal scheduling method for participating power distribution network voltage regulation by the electric vehicles is obtained on this basis, and scheduling for the electric vehicles is completed through the optimal scheduling method, so that the quantity of the electric vehicles connected into the charging station is increased, and safe and stable operation of a power distribution network is also maintained.

The present invention relates to the technical field of mobile block chain cloud computing, and more particularly relates to a mobile block chain resource allocation method based on task migration. The invention provides a three-layer matching method, comprising the following steps: in a mobile block chain resource allocation model, a base station divides users into a plurality of groups; the userin the group submits the computing resource demand and bidding information to the base station, and the edge cloud computing unit submits the self-allocatable resources to the base station; the basestation completes the matching between the user and the edge cloud computing unit according to the resource information of the user and the edge cloud, and loads the computing task of the user into the corresponding edge cloud, and the base station collects the user fee and pays the fee to the edge cloud. The method does not consume too much energy and computational power in the transaction process, can realize the deployment of the block chain at the mobile end, meets the needs of the user for mining on the mobile phone, increases the income of the user with resource surplus, and enables users to have higher personal income and overall income.

An electric vehicle rapid charging demand scheduling method based on load space transfer comprises the steps of dynamically selecting a path of an urban road network and sequentially establishing a road section dynamic travel time model and a dynamic path selection model; establishing a charging navigation scheme considering the congestion degree of the charging station, wherein a user charging navigation model, a charging station group service capability optimization model and a charging selection model considering vehicle decision dynamic evolution are sequentially established; and establishing an ordered rapid charging strategy based on the interaction between the charging station and the electric vehicle, including formulating the cost of the charging station and establishing a master-slave game model of the charging station and the electric vehicle. Factors such as interaction influence of multi-vehicle charging selection and non-uniform facility utilization rate of the urban fastcharging station are considered in the electric vehicle fast charging demand scheduling process; the interactive influence of charging station selection and path selection between vehicles and the interactive game strategy between stations and vehicles are fully considered, and a more scientific and effective scheduling scheme can be provided for quick charging of electric vehicles.

The invention discloses a charging method and system of an electric automobile charging pile with bluetooth. An implementation process of the charging method in a charging CPU (Central Processing Unit) comprises the following steps: receiving a management request transmitted by a mobile terminal through the charging CPU, making a response to the management request, and transmitting management request response information to the mobile terminal, wherein the management request response information comprises a user registration state and an electric automobile charging pile registration state; when the electric automobile charging pile is registered equipment, receiving a user charging request and user verification information transmitted by the mobile terminal of a registered user, verifying the mobile terminal, judging whether a user corresponding to the mobile terminal has a charging balance record or not by the charging CPU after successful verification, and if so, ending the current charging request and transmitting payment information to the mobile terminal, otherwise, transmitting a charging permission command to the mobile terminal.

An advertisement provider transmits advertising data to, for example, a WWW (World Wide Web) server from a terminal and the WWW server transmits the advertising data to a user terminal through a communication network such as the Internet. Advertisement charges to the advertisement provider are changed according to transmitting time period, and charges to the user are changed according to the transmitting time period. The advertisement charges or the user charges may be increased or decreased according to the number of accesses. <heading lvl="1">INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE < / heading> This disclosures of Japanese Patent Applications No. 2000-220241filed on Jul. 21, 2000 and 2001-118289 filed on Apr. 17, 2001, including the specifications and abstracts are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

The invention discloses a control method for large-scale orderly electric vehicle charging and discharging. The control method for large-scale orderly electric vehicle charging and discharging comprises the steps that order charging and discharging control strategy calculation is started according to the newest user charging demand information, an overall charging and discharging demand boundary curve and an overall charging load guiding curve of all the electric vehicles connected to charging and discharging machines within the management range of a control center and the charging or discharging power of each electric vehicle are calculated in sequence, the charging and discharging machines are controlled according to the finally determined charging and discharging powers to charge or discharge the electric vehicles, and orderly charging and discharging control is achieved. The control method for large-scale orderly electric vehicle charging and discharging depends on calculation of a simple optimization model, the calculation efficiency is high, the requirement for the hardware environment of the control center is low, calculation resources are effectively saved, the minimization of charging cost can be achieved, and the difference between a load peak and a load valley of a power grid system is improved.

The invention discloses a charging method and a system for distinguishing user charging rules. The method comprises the following steps: determining an internal user group which a terminal belongs to and the user category of the terminal in the internal user group after the terminal sends a service request; selecting a corresponding charging rule according to the internal user group and the user category; and adding the group identification of the internal user group, the category information of the user category and the corresponding charging rule in the bill of the required service for charging. Because the group identification and the category information are notified to a service gateway and a grouping data gateway, the charging method overcomes the disadvantage that the prior art cannot carry out differentiated charging according to the internal user group which a user belongs to and the user category of the user. Therefore, the charging method can distinguish different internal user groups and different user categories to realize flexible and accurate charging.

The invention relates to digital copyright protection field, in particular to a technology for controlling use of digital content, discloses a method for controlling use of digital content, a system and a user terminal device, realizes subsection charging of digital content which are needed by users according to interesting thereof. According to requirements, the digital content is divided and inserted into one or more chaging messages. When users utilize digital content to a corresponding position of each charging point position message, the user can be allowed to use the digital content continuously after the user charging message which corresponds to a charging point position message is confirmed; or prompting the user charging and after receiving the user confirming charging, setting the user charging message as a payment, allowing the user to use the digital content continuously. The invention also discloses a user terminal device for controlling use of digital content and a system thereof. The user terminal device acquires digital content and analyzes charging messages, finishes the charging authorized process through the system.

The invention relates to an electric vehicle dual-scale charging guiding method and system considering users' satisfaction degree. According to the method, electric vehicles are divided into an immediate charging cluster and a time-delay charging cluster according to charging time frame requirements from uses, and satisfaction degree functions in different scales are established; in the time scalelayer, a model is established by considering power grid factors and user charging cost factors, and a load curve is adjusted by guiding the start charging time of the electric vehicles; in the spacescale layer, a model is established by considering charging station factors and user traveling cost factors, and the charging station selection of each vehicle is planned, so that the charging stationoperation efficiency is improved; and electric vehicle charging behavior guiding for users on time and space scales is performed according to the solved optimal solution. Compared with the prior art,optimization and balance utilization of the load curve, the traffic condition and charging station equipment are realized while users' satisfaction degree is satisfied.

The invention provides an electric automobile charging recommendation system and method. The system comprises a smart phone terminal of an electric automobile user, a WeChat public platform, a charging management platform, a map service platform and a plurality of charging stations in a set region. The WeChat public platform is provided with a WeChat official account; a charging pile in each charging station is equipped with a scanning device; and a charging station entrance / exit is provided with a vehicle counting device. When the system is used, the user logs in the WeChat official account and sends a charging request to the charging management platform through the WeChat public platform; and the charging management platform receives the charging request and analyzes user related information, searches the charging stations in the reachable range of the electric automobile and real-time information thereof according to built-in GIS information and called real-time road condition information query and navigation service of the map service platform and recommends the charging station and charging time most meeting the user charging requirements to the user. The system can effectively meet diversified automobile charging requirements of the users.

The invention relates to the user identity updating method of encryption transmission and belongs to the user identity updating technology field. In the prior art, a malicious visiting location network can not be prevented from carrying out user charging after receiving a user identity and the like, and a permanent user identity leakage problem caused by the safety problem of the visiting locationnetwork exists. In the invention, the above problems are solved. The user identity updating method of the encryption transmission comprises the following steps of receiving a user hidden identity SUCI sent by a client; calculating and caching a shared master secret key according to the received SUCI; decrypting the SUCI to acquire the user identity SUPI, and acquiring a new user identity SUPI_n according to the SUPI; generating an authentication vector AV through using the shared master secret key and the SUPI_n; sending AUTN and RAND in the authentication vector to the client, and calculating feedback information by the client; and according to the feedback information of the client, determining whether an authentication is passed, and if the authentication is passed, updating the user identity SUPI to SUPI_n. The on-line and insensitive user identity updating method with high efficiency and low system transformation of the encryption transmission is realized.

The invention provides a method for mining data of a novel urban electric vehicle charging station system. The method comprises the following steps of establishing a data warehouse, and collecting and recording the data of the charging station system and an electric vehicle user in real time; classifying, pre-processing and discretizing the collected and recorded data, and extracting a required feature data set; evaluating the element membership of the feature set by a fuzzy mathematic and probability statistics theory, and parameterizing; calculating the parameterized set, and obtaining a relation matrix of the user charging demand, the charging area and the charging time; extracting and evaluating the results, and feeding and outputting the evaluation conclusion to a management center of the charging station system and a user mobile terminal, so as to assist to make a decision. The method has the advantages that the benefits of the charging station planning and the movable electric vehicle scheduling are maximized, and the charging requirement of the user is met.

The invention relates to an SDK processing method suitable for application client end payment. The SDK processing method is characterized by comprising the following steps: an SDK is started along with an application client end, and necessary initialization is realized in starting processes; when a user clicks on charging, the SDK communicates with a cloud server; the cloud server choose among charging channels; an application client end conducts charging operation, a charging result is fed back to the cloud server, a final charging result is displayed via the application client end, charging channels matching with three major mobile operators in china can be used, and great convenience can be realized; an SDK integration pack can be automatically updated. A mobile application provider does not need to check development documents provided by all platforms in a one-by-one manner; via use of cloud computing technologies, an optimal charging channel which conforms to conditions of the user can be automatically chosen, and a unified user platform can be built; the user only needs to check integrated and unified details at background, instead of checking user charging information, behavior information and the like of all the platforms in a one-by-one manner.

The invention relates to a method for automatically charging by utilizing a vehicle identification number (VIN). The method comprises the following steps: detecting a connection state between a charging gun of a charging machine and a charging interface of a to-be-charged vehicle; providing a low-voltage auxiliary power supply for a BMS (battery management system) by the charging machine when the connection state is normal; transmitting a handshake identification message to the BMS by the charging machine and retransmitting a reply identification message to the charging machine by the BMS according to a communication protocol between the charging machine and the BMS, wherein the reply identification message is written into the VIN corresponding to the vehicle in advance; analyzing the VIN when the reply identification message is received by the charging machine in a preset period of time, and controlling to cut off the low-voltage auxiliary power supply; and contrasting the analyzed VIN with a pre-recorded VIN database, and controlling the charging machine to charge or not charge a battery of the vehicle. The method disclosed by the invention is used for solving the problems in the prior art such as complicated charging process, low portability, low reliability and low safety, automatic charging is realized, the charging convenience, reliability and safety are enhanced, and the user charging experience is improved.

The present invention provides a business method, computer system and software implemented methods that provide for secure and high speed transmission or distribution of media files across a telephone, internet, intranet, satellite, cable or combination network decoupled from digital media file access rights, and a method to avoid digital file sharing or copying without direct or indirect payment of user fees. More particularly, the invention includes the use of a proprietary encryption technique for digital media files, a proprietary reassembly process for digital media files and unique user keys, wherein the access to a digital media file or portion thereof is controlled by the digital media rights of the key or digital media access card, which access may be constrained to a particular machine, a particular user, a particular period of time, or a combination thereof. This method permits peer to peer transmission of information without piracy of the media, such that access can be paid for by a third party or can be paid for by end user, and digital media rights licenses may optionally provide for a transfer of digital media rights for a particular digital media file.

The embodiment of the invention is applicable to the technical field of charging piles, and discloses a charging health index scoring method and device, terminal equipment and a computer readable storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining electric vehicle charging data uploaded by a charging pile; Identifying a user charging behavior according to the charging data; And calculating a charging health score according to the charging behavior and a preset scoring rule. According to the embodiment of the invention, the method achieves the analysis of the charging behavior of theuser, reflects the charging behavior analysis result through the charging health score, enables the user to visually know whether the charging behavior is safe and healthy, and improves the charging experience of the user.

The invention discloses an electric vehicle charging pile inter-APP charging system mobile phone APP realization method comprising the following steps: 1, a user logs in a mobile phone APP, uses scanning, hand input or cloud download modes to obtain a charging pile code, and uses the code to obtain the charging pile equipment information; 2, the user checks charging pile state and charging data according to the obtained equipment information; 3, the user uses the mobile phone APP to input charging data, selects a payment mode, and pays the bill; 4, the user uses the mobile phone APP to send charging control information to a partner server or the charging pile, the charging pile receives the control information and starts charging, and the charging pile finishes charging and reminds the user that the charging is finished. The method can realize interconnection between different charging pile charging application systems, thus improving electric vehicle user charging experiences, and making contribution for electric vehicle popularization.

The invention discloses an intelligent IC card advanced charge thermal clearing control system and a control process thereof, which are used for completing works of heating power industry heavy customer advanced charge management, control, warning, remote monitoring and the like. The system comprises an intelligent IC card system management platform, a thermal substation intelligent IC card thermal control terminal and a bank user charge system, wherein the intelligent IC card system management platform comprises a user information management system, a clearing system, an intelligent IC card management system and an operation data management system, and the intelligent IC card management system comprises a secret key management system, a card making system and a card sending system. By the control process of the invention, a concentrated heat supply IC card advanced charge function can be realized, charge data, transaction records, thermal consumption data and the like are stored, and information such as real-time data, the transaction records, the thermal consumption data and the like is transmitted to a highest management system through a public communication network, which ensures that a heating power industry immediately knows the heat consumption and the transaction condition.