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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6965302 | Power line communication system and method of using the same The communication system of one embodiment is for communicating data through a power distribution system having a medium voltage power line and low voltage power line and comprises a first device comprising a first wireless transceiver, a first modem in communicatio... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963285 | Outage notification device and method An outage notification system for detecting a power outage at a customer location is provided. The outage notification system comprises a first outage notification device operably coupled to a first circuit at the customer location, a second device operably coupled ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963738 | Method for evaluating a communication link, terminal and system therefor A communications link is evaluated between a communications module connected to a meter and a remote reading terminal. The communications link is established between the meter's communications module and the remote reading terminal under given operating conditions. ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963146 | Modular power control apparatus A modular power control apparatus for use with a plurality of peripheral devices. A plurality of modules, which connect to the peripheral devices, are supported by a housing. An interface module is supported by the housing to selectively interface with the plurality... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961641 | Intra-device communications architecture for managing electrical power distribution and consumption 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... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961666 | System for automatic collection and transport of readings from water, gas and electricity meters A system for automatic collection and transport of readings from water, gas and electricity meters wherein at least one receiver element and one element to transmit (1) define an ad-hoc wireless network, self organizing in an area (A), where the readings are ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958680 | Power line communication system and method of using the same The last portion of the electrical distribution system is used to provide high-speed communications to residential homes. An aggregation point interfaces a medium voltage power line with a point-of-presence, and a power line bridge enables flow of communications sig... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957042 | Packet based backhaul channel configuration for a wireless repeater A method and system for improved backhaul efficiency dynamically assigns packet based backhaul channels in a cellular communications system which includes at least one wireless repeater and a base station. The method and system can perform packet based backhaul comm... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956500 | Real-time residential energy monitor An inexpensive energy monitoring device and method for measuring energy usage and power costs in real time. The invention can include an external type digital battery powered camera that can be mounted away from and adjacent to the outdoor utility meter on a rotatab... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957170 | Switchgear cabinet or switchgear cabinet assembly comprising a monitoring device that is arranged therein A switchgear cabinet or a switchgear cabinet assembly having at least one monitoring device arranged therein for monitoring switchgear cabinet functions, including temperature regulation. This invention provides extended control options for the safety of the switchg... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957158 | High density random access memory in an intelligent electric device Methods and devices for monitoring distributed electric power are disclosed, including energy devices with a sensor for monitoring an electric circuit, and a memory to store sensor measurements. Various techniques are disclosed for using polymeric RAM, 1T-DRA... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954144 | Water pit transmitter assembly A water pit transponder assembly includes a housing with multiple sections including top, main and bottom sections snap latched together connected to a water meter. A circuit board transponder in the housing includes a controller, a transmitter, a receiver and tampe... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954814 | Method and system for monitoring and transmitting utility status via universal communications interface A method and system for monitoring utility meter status, and transmitting a status message via an output device connected to a universal communications interface in the event that the utility meter status meets a predetermined condition. Typically, the predetermined... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954646 | Data communication radio network In the wireless telegram communication (28) from data-generating, unidirectionally communicating terminal devices (12) by way of primary radio sections (10) and by way of subsequent bidirectionally operating data collectors (13) of a radi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954061 | Method and apparatus for electronic meter testing An electronic energy meter senses input voltage and current signals and processes the input voltage and current signals to generate measurements of multiple types of power. The meter comprises a processing system for selecting one of the multiple types of power and ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950628 | Method for grouping 802.11 stations into authorized service sets to differentiate network access and services A method for associating a WSTA to a service set, wherein the service set is configurable at the AP. Each service set is an arbitrary grouping of one or more network service parameters, and is typically configured for either VLAN or proxy mobile IP host. When a wire... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950567 | Method and apparatus for providing inductive coupling and decoupling of high-frequency, high-bandwidth data signals directly on and off of a high voltage power line The present invention is drawn to an electrically “closed” method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data signals over a high voltage power line. Inductive coupling is employed for coupling and decoupling the data signal directly on to and off of a sin... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946972 | Systems and methods for wirelessly transmitting data from a utility meter A method for wirelessly transmitting data from an utility meter, such as an electric meter, is disclosed. A microprocessor housed inside an energy meter obtains readings of various power indicia, stores the readings, processes the buffer to determine an efficient me... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947005 | Low cost antennas and electromagnetic (EMF) absorption in electronic circuit packages or transceivers using conductive loaded resin-based materials Low cost antennas and electromagnetic absorbing parts formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises conductive fibers, conductive powders, or in combination thereof in a resin base host wherein the ratio of ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944523 | Recording and processing utility commodity usage The present invention provides a recording node (100) at a consummer site that is used for the receiving, storing, determining and/or sending of utility commodity information. The recording node (100) is an integral part of networks (370) or can... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944555 | Communications architecture for intelligent electronic devices 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... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943668 | Apparatus and method for reconfiguring a power line communication system A geometric harmonic modulation (GHM) communication system communicates GHM signals on a power line of a reconfigurable network. The GHM communication system includes a master controller connected to the power line for transmitting GHM signals on the power line. A b... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940956 | Electric outlet based power status notification device, system, and method There is provided a device, system, and method for reporting a change in the power status of power supplied through an electric outlet. A power outage notification device detects the change in the power status of the power, such as a power outage or a power restorat... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940421 | Method and apparatus for efficient use of communication channels for remote telemetry A remote telemetry system utilizing dual communication pathways comprising low-cost remote communications devices operating on existing wire-based communications systems, wireless communications systems, and/or a combination thereof, to provide real-time reading and... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937160 | Sensor arrangement for application to at least one data item A sensor arrangement for application to at least one data item, and comprising at least one sensitive element connected by way of sensor electronic circuitry having a storage arrangement with an input/output port. This input/output port of the sensor arrangement is ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937080 | Current-controlled CMOS logic family Various circuit techniques for implementing ultra high speed circuits use current-controlled CMOS (C3MOS) logic fabricated in conventional CMOS process technology. An entire family of logic elements including inverter/buffers, level shifters, NAND, NOR, X... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933857 | Method and system for airborne meter communication An airborne meter communication system includes an airborne platform that communicates with ground based utility meters using radio frequencies. The airborne platform retransmits information received from the meters to a network operations center for further process... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6933835 | Data communication over a power line A signal is received from a first portion of a power line and at least a portion of the signal is converted to a non-electrically conducting signal. The non-electrically conducting signal may be communicated to a non-electrically conductive communication path. In th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931445 | User interface for monitoring remote devices A system for monitoring utility consumption information, the system including a memory to store utility consumption information and a processor configured by the memory to provide a user interface to enable an user to view the utility consumption information in a ti... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6924747 | System for exchanging data In a system for the exchange of data, including a teleservice terminal apparatus, a user apparatus adapted to exchange data with the teleservice terminal apparatus, a central control unit having access to a public communication network, and a subcontrol unit connect... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925169 | Information entry device The objective of this invention is to protect the information entry such as a PIN from theft by observation of the finger movement based on the conventional fixed arrangement of entry keys. The present invention is an information entry device including: keys ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6920028 | Digital protective relay for power systems with operator-initiated record keeping capability A digital protective relay for power systems includes a memory location for storing information entered by an operator concerning the operation of the relay. Conventional reports of the relay will include a reference to such operator-entered information. This inform... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6918311 | Weather resistant automatic meter reading unit A chassis for a residential utility meter reading unit includes individual chambers including a transmitter chamber containing a printed circuit board, an indexing unit chamber containing the mechanism for operating dials that rotated in response to use of the utili... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917888 | Method and system for power line network fault detection and quality monitoring Fault detection and power network quality monitoring are performed for a power line network using power line communications (“PLC”) signal transceiving and data processing capabilities. Power line signals are continuously received and processed to obtain signal ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914533 | System and method for accessing residential monitoring devices The present invention is directed to a system and method for accessing home monitoring devices remotely via a distributed wide-area network (WAN). More specifically, the present invention is directed towards smoke detector system, which monitors for the presence of ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912889 | Generator monitoring, control and efficiency A system for generating electricity includes a generator and an interface. The generator is coupled to the interface and provides data to the interface regarding electricity generation. The interface is coupled to a control node for monitoring and controlling the ge... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914893 | System and method for monitoring and controlling remote devices The present system is directed to a computerized system for monitoring and controlling remote devices by transmitting data between the remote systems and a gateway interface via a packet message protocol system. The system comprises one or more remote sensors to be ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912379 | Infrared ray transmitting and receiving device having a signal communicator An IR transmitting and receiving device with a signal communicator has an RF transmitter unit connected to an IR receiver and an RF receiver communicating with the RF transmitter unit. The RF receiver is able to get the status of the signal at the IR receiver throug... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6911813 | Methods and apparatus for phase compensation in electronic energy meters An electronic meter includes a sensing circuit for sensing voltage and current values of a waveform, an analog-to-digital converter for converting the sensed voltage and current values to digital voltage and current values, a digital filter for delaying one or both ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6906625 | System and method for information assimilation and functionality control based on positioning information obtained by impulse radio techniques A system and method for information assimilation and functionality control based on positioning information obtained by impulse radio techniques, which utilizes the position information and communication abilities inherent in impulse radio technology to correlate po... | 06/14/2005 |
