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Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, Or Cost/price Determination > For Cost/price > Utility Usage Utility UsageUtility Usage patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/09/06 - 20060253407 - Monitoring system for an evaporative credit program A method of monitoring an evaporative credit program is provided in which a water meter reading of a utility service customer is received. An actual compliance index is determined based on the water meter reading. The actual compliance index is then compared to a desired compliance index to determine whether ... 10/12/06 - 20060230002 - Utility usage evaluation system and method The invention provides a method of evaluating utility usage of an organization that involves storing in computer memory data representing one or more facilities or processes operated by the organization and storing in computer memory data representing one or more utility sources, each facility or process using one or more ... 09/28/06 - 20060218104 - Method and apparatus for coupling a meter register to an automatic meter reading communication device A method and apparatus for coupling a meter register to a communication device such that output data signals from the meter register can be transmitted to a remote location. The coupling arrangement includes a data transfer wire that is connected to the meter register and is inductively coupled to the ... 07/06/06 - 20060149691 - Method and system for enablement and management of ad hoc electric energy consumption An apparatus and method for providing electric energy in an ad hoc manner to a customer having an electrically-powered device, includes an electric connection unit configured to electrically connect to the electrically-powered device, the electric connection unit being in a default state in which electrical energy is not output from ... 05/18/06 - 20060106741 - Utility monitoring system and method for relaying personalized real-time utility consumption information to a consumer A utility monitoring system and method for relaying to a consumer personalized utility consumption information in order to induce the consumer to conserve the utility. The system includes a data source, a processor coupled to the data source, and a display unit coupled to the processor. The processor receives utility ... 05/18/06 - 20060106740 - Creation and correction of future time interval power generation curves for power generation costing and pricing Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture such as software media for creating projected power production data are disclosed. The method may comprise storing historical heat rate data and historical process information for at least one power generation unit in a historical heat rate database. The method may also comprise retrieving ... 05/18/06 - 20060106739 - Creation of future time interval power generation data using historical data Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture such as software media for creating projected power production data are described herein. The method may comprise storing historical heat rate data for at least one power generation unit in a historical heat rate database. The method may also comprise retrieving the historical heat ... 03/30/06 - 20060069661 - System and method for automated configuration of meters A number of meters to be configured according to a particular billing rate. Multiple billing rates may be defined, named, and stored for use. Each such billing rate may include time of use (TOU) configuration parameters and/or demand configuration parameters. Alternatively, a billing rate may include strictly consumption based parameters. ... 02/09/06 - 20060031180 - Integrated metrology systems and information and control apparatus for interaction with integrated metrology systems A system is disposed at a location of a utility commodity subscriber for informing the subscriber of utility commodity cost and usage and for controlling utility commodity usage. The system includes one or more utility meters, an information and control apparatus, a first data communication link, and a second data ... 01/05/06 - 20060004679 - Distributed utility monitoring, such as for monitoring the quality or existence of a electrical, gas, or water utility In a system for automatic meter reading of utility meters, a utility supply measuring system may include one or more collector units, wherein each one of the collector units accesses a supply of a utility, wherein the accessing occurs in addition to receiving meter reading data from a telemetry device, ... 11/24/05 - 20050262029 - Method and a computer program for regulating the energy flow in an energy network, and as well as a system for electronically auctioning energy A method and a computer programme for regulating the energy flow in an energy network comprises at least a first and a second area comprising producers and consumers, in which the energy network comprises at least one network connection that limits the transportation capacity of the energy network between said ... 11/03/05 - 20050246295 - Method and system for remotely monitoring meters Methods and systems remotely monitor a current value of a meter display. A picture of the display is taken with a camera equipped portable communication device. The picture is sent through the portable communication device and associated infrastructure to a processing system. The processing system receives and stores the picture, ... 10/20/05 - 20050234837 - Method and system for validation, estimation and editing of daily meter read data A method for processing daily consumption, demand and time of use meter reads for electric, gas, water and other metered entities. The meter reads are collected by any of the well known Automated Meter Reading (AMR) technologies and loaded into a meter data warehouse. At a minimum daily meter reading, ... 08/25/05 - 20050187888 - Method for associating information pertaining to a meter data acquisition system A system includes a data acquisition system, a data storage, and a data processing system. The data acquisition system is operable to acquire energy consumption data from a plurality of electricity meters. The storage device is operable to store at least some of the acquired energy consumption data. The data ... 06/16/05 - 20050131845 - Method for maintaining a technical facility technical field It is proposed to identify the component parts of a technical facility in an initialization phase and to record specific data of these component parts with the aid of a databank system. In a prognosis phase, the servicing intervals for the component parts of the technical facility are then calculated ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |