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Battelle Memorial Institute Assigned Patent

Managing power grid data

Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,183,153) developed by Yin, Jian, Akyol, Bora A., Richland, WA, and Gorton, Ian, Pittsburgh, PA, for a “method and system for managing power grid data.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method of managing time-series data for smart grids is disclosed. Data is collected from a plurality of sensors. An index is modified for a newly created block. A one disk operation per read or write is performed. The one disk operation per read includes accessing and looking up the index to locate the data without movement of an arm of the disk, and obtaining the data. The one disk operation per write includes searching the disk for free space, calculating an offset, modifying the index, and writing the data contiguously into a block of the disk the index points to.

The patent application was filed on February 22, 2013 (13/773,816).

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