SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED DATA TRANSFER FROM AN IED

• US 20110040809A1
• Filed: 06/17/2010
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EI Electronics LLC (Hubbell, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Electro Industries/Gaugetech
• Inventors: Wang, Wei, Koval, Rory A., Werner, Andrew J., Spanier, Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 9,482,555 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/821
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/10 using digital techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

A system and method for providing easy access to an internal file structure of an intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., a power meter, not presently defined or supported directly by legacy protocols used in metering industry, such as the Modbus protocol.

Claims

1. A method for extending a non-file centric protocol to support a file-system architecture in an IED, the method comprising:

(i) receiving one or more extended file centric commands at the IED from an external device in accordance with a non-file centric protocol, said extended file centric commands configured to request one of;

(a) a transfer of one or more files stored in a file system of the IED from the IED to the external device,

(b) file system information pertaining to said one or more files stored in said file system of the IED, and

(c) a file system operation performed on said one or more files stored in said file system of the IED,

(ii) processing the received one or more extended file centric commands at the IED to execute one of;

(a) a transfer of said one or more files to the external device from the IED,

(b) a return of said file system information, and

(c) said file system operation.