COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES
First Claim
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1. An electrical power management architecture comprising:
- a network;
at least one electric meter coupled with said network; and
an instant message server coupled with said electric meter and said network, said electric meter operative to generate a first instant message to said instant message server and receive a second instant message from said server.
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Abstract
A power management architecture for an electrical power distribution system, or portion thereof, is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple intelligent electronic devices (“IED'"'"'s”) distributed throughout the power distribution system to manage the flow and consumption of power from the system using real time communications. Power management application software and/or hardware components operate on the IED'"'"'s and the back-end servers and inter-operate via the network to implement a power management application. The architecture provides a scalable and cost effective framework of hardware and software upon which such power management applications can operate to manage the distribution and consumption of electrical power by one or more utilities/suppliers and/or customers which provide and utilize the power distribution system. Autonomous communication on the network between TED'"'"'s, back-end servers an other entities is facilitated by the use of an instant message protocol and server and associated applications, which offer reliable and determinate message delivery.
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67 Claims
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1. An electrical power management architecture comprising:
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a network;
at least one electric meter coupled with said network; and
an instant message server coupled with said electric meter and said network, said electric meter operative to generate a first instant message to said instant message server and receive a second instant message from said server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An electrical power management architecture comprising:
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a network;
a presence server;
at least one electric meter coupled with said network, said electric meter operative to autonomously indicate said connection of said electric meter on said network, said presence server operative to receive said autonomous indication. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55)
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56. A method of monitoring presence of at least one intelligent electronic device (“
- IED”
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(a) coupling said IED with a network, said IED being characterized by said presence;
(b) transmitting, autonomously, said presence of said IED onto said network;
(c) receiving said presence of said IED at a presence server coupled with said network; and
(d) monitoring said presence of said IED. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. An electrical power management architecture comprising:
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a network;
a presence server coupled with said network;
at least one intelligent electronic device (“
IED”
) coupled with said network, said IED operative to autonomously indicate said connection of said IED on said network, said presence server operative to receive said autonomous indication. - View Dependent Claims (64)
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65. An electrical power management architecture comprising:
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at least one intelligent electronic device (“
IED”
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a firewall, said firewall operative to securely couple an external network with said internal network; and
a network interface operative to couple said IED with said internal network and facilitate a communications, initiated by said IED, of first power management data through said firewall from said internal network to said external network.
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66. An electrical power management architecture for managing an electrical power distribution system comprising:
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a network;
at least one intelligent electronic device (“
IED”
) coupled with a portion of said electrical power distribution system and further coupled with said network, each of said at least one IED operative to implement a power management function in conjunction with said portion of said electrical power distribution system, said power management function operative to respond to at least one power management command and generate power management data, each of said at least one IED comprising;
a first network interface operative to couple said at least one IED with said network and facilitate autonomous transmission of said power management data and receipt of said at least one power management command over said network; and
a security module coupled with said first network interface and operative to prevent unauthorized access to said power management data;
said architecture further comprising;
a power management application coupled with said network and operative to receive and process said power management data from said at least one IED and generate said at least one power management command to said at least one IED to implement said power management function. - View Dependent Claims (67)
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Current AssigneePower Measurement Ltd. (Schneider Electric SE)
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Original AssigneePower Measurement Ltd. (Schneider Electric SE)
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InventorsBlackett, Andrew W., Teachman, Michael E., Forth, Bradford J.
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Granted Patent
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Time in Patent OfficeDays
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US Class Current702/62
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CPC Class CodesG01D 2204/45 Utility meters networked to...G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility m...G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supplyY02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling tec...Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specia...
