US 12,261,476 B1
Method for balancing a transfer function of a reservoir controller
Justin N. Smith, Belmont, CA (US); and Mark S. Nowotarski, Stamford, CT (US)
Assigned to Applied Underwriters, Inc., Omaha, NE (US)
Filed by Applied Underwriters, Inc., Omaha, NE (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/450,313.
Application 17/450,313 is a division of application No. 16/541,257, filed on Aug. 15, 2019, granted, now 11,177,685.
Application 16/541,257 is a division of application No. 16/191,551, filed on Nov. 15, 2018, granted, now 10,432,014, issued on Oct. 1, 2019.
Application 16/177,525 is a division of application No. 15/975,820, filed on May 10, 2018, granted, now 10,164,462, issued on Dec. 25, 2018.
Application 16/191,551 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/177,525, filed on Nov. 1, 2018, granted, now 10,418,846, issued on Sep. 17, 2019.
Application 16/191,551 is a continuation in part of application No. 12/822,371, filed on Jun. 24, 2010, granted, now 7,908,157, issued on Mar. 15, 2011.
Application 12/822,371 is a continuation of application No. 12/696,256, filed on Jan. 29, 2010, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/148,560, filed on Jan. 30, 2009.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H02J 9/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2023.01); G06Q 40/00 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 9/002 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06Q 40/00 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 7/00 (2013.01); H02J 7/007 (2013.01); H02J 7/0071 (2020.01); H02J 7/04 (2013.01); H02J 9/00 (2013.01); H02J 3/00 (2013.01); H02J 3/001 (2020.01); Y02B 70/00 (2013.01); Y04S 10/14 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for balancing a transfer function, the transfer function being operable in a reservoir controller to determine a required normalized compensatory charge from a plant to a reservoir during a second time period based on a measured normalized contingency discharge from the reservoir to the plant during a first time period, the method comprising the steps:
receiving, at a processor of a computer system, a normalized distribution of normalized discharges for a plurality of reference plants in a size class of the plant;
receiving, at the processor, one or more parameters from a user device; and
automatically adjusting, by the processor, the one or more parameters of the transfer function to create a balanced transfer function such that an integral of a product of the transfer function and the normalized distribution of normalized discharges of the plurality of reference plants is about 1;
wherein the first time period is before the second time period;
displaying, on a screen of the user device, the balanced transfer function as a graph or a table of required compensatory charges from the plant to the reservoir over the second time period versus measured contingency discharges from the reservoir to the plant over the first time period;
accepting, via the screen, input from the user to modify the balanced transfer function by changing one or more of the base function and the trim function;
re-balancing the modified transfer function by adjusting the trim multiplier; and
updating the screen to display the re-balanced modified transfer function in real-time.