DYNAMIC WEBPAGE INTERFACE FOR AN INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150286394A1
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Electro Industries/Gaugetech, EI Electronics LLC (Hubbell, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Electro Industries/Gaugetech
• Inventors: Koval, Rory A.
• Application Number:
  US14/742,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20150286394A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/025 concerning dedicated user interfaces, e.g. GUI, or dedicated keyboards G01R31/31912 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/2513 Arrangements for monitoring electric power systems, e.g. power lines or loads; Logging
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/063 related to remote communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/542 the information being in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/03 Protocol definition or specification protocol conformance testing H04L1/244
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• 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 dynamic webpage interface for an intelligent electronic device (IED) and method thereof are provided. The present disclosure provides for separating a webpage into multiple discrete resources, and to customize the resources returned by a web server based on the contents of a request. In one embodiment, such a custom request is implemented by a Web Services interface, such as content based API'"'"'s like SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), or address and command based API'"'"'s like REST (Representational State Transfer). In another embodiment, such a custom request may also be implemented by server side processing, such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface), PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), or other server side engines.

Claims

1. An intelligent electronic device comprising:

at least one sensor coupled to at least one power line of an electrical power distribution system and configured for measuring at least one power parameter of the at least one power line and generating at least one analog signal indicative of the at least one power parameter;

at least one analog to digital converter coupled to the at least one sensor configured for receiving the at least one analog signal and converting the at least one analog signal to at least one digital signal;

at least one processor configured for receiving the at least one digital signal and calculating energy consumption in the at least one power line;

a plurality of discrete resources stored in a memory; and

a web server including a web services interface configured to access at least one of the resources in response to a request from a client device.

2. The IED of claim 1, wherein the web services interface is a representational state transfer (REST) interface.

3. The IED of claim 2, wherein the request is a web address of a requested resource.

4. The IED of claim 1, wherein the web services interface is a simple object access protocol (SOAP) interface.

5. The IED of claim 4, wherein the request includes XML embedded in a body of a HTTP message.

6. The IED of claim 4, wherein the SOAP interface includes a web services description language (WSDL) file defining at least one interaction with a client device.

7. The IED of claim 4, wherein the request includes a format of data returned.

8. The IED of claim 4, wherein the SOAP interface includes a descriptor list associated with an address.

9. The IED of claim 1, further comprising a server side processing engine that processes the request, generates a response from the requested data and sends the response to the client device.

10. The IED of claim 1, wherein communication between the web server and client device is encrypted.

11. The IED of claim 10, wherein the encryption is at least one of a secure socket layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS).

12. The IED of claim 11, wherein the web server uploads an authentication certificate to the client device.

13. The IED of claim 12, wherein the web server requests the authentication certificate from the client device upon a request for access from the client device.

14. The IED of claim 11, wherein an authentication certificate is associated to at least one resource.

15. The IED of claim 1, wherein the web services strips out any unnecessary characters in a response to the request from the client device.

16. The IED of claim 1, wherein the request triggers a remote procedure call.

17. The IED of claim 16, wherein the remote procedure call initiates an email to a predetermined recipient.

18. The IED of claim 17, wherein the request includes a remote procedure call.

19. The IED of claim 16, wherein the web server processes the request and passes the remote procedure call to at least one other component.

20. The IED of claim 1, wherein a returned resource to the request is based on the logged in state of a user.

21. The IED of claim 1, wherein a returned resource to the request is based on a configuration resource.

22. The IED of claim 21, wherein the configuration resource is a layout of a returned web page.

23. The IED of claim 22, wherein the layout is a user configured dashboard including at plurality of components.

24. The IED of claim 1, wherein the response to the request is a manipulation of a script.

25. The IED of claim 1, wherein a number of requests for resources is limited by a predetermined number of requests per second.

26. The IED of claim 1, wherein each request for a resource is associated with a weighting factor and each request is processed in order of the weighting factor from lowest to highest.

27. The IED of claim 1, wherein request exceeding a predetermined number are cached in memory.