Southern Company Services, Inc.

Open Invention Network LLC

Gregory Ray Floyd

Nathan Robert Jones

Arnold Cory Solomon

Michael Peters

Steven Kirk Hubbartt

Alla Semenovna Zelikovskaya

Steaven A Rowe

A method, system, and program product for generating and processing application settings for a software application using an application configuration component operating on a computer system. An application settings object containing a plurality of application settings is generated for the software application. The application settings object are serialized and stored into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) application settings file on the computer system. A new instance of the application configuration component is generated. A request is received from the software application for an application settings object for a specific environment and module. If located on the computer system, the XML application settings file is deserialized into the application settings object. Each property of the application settings object is then processed and the application settings object is returned to the software application.

Application configuration tool

Various methods and systems are directed to a meter alert system that provides surveillance of meters and other components of a utility system. The meter alert system obtains, via a user interface, specification of one or more meter conditions among a list of meter conditions. The meter alert system generates a rule for a utility metering device according to the meter conditions, wherein the rule is associated with a utility metering device identifier of the utility metering device. The meter system executes the rule, wherein an execution of the rule generates an alert in response to at least one of the first meter condition being satisfied or the second meter condition being satisfied. The meter alert system transmits a notification message in response to the alert being generated.

Notification system, method, and computer application based on decision rules for evaluating a plurality of utility meter conditions

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating data synchronization in a utility computing environment. A data synchronization application can monitor source systems in such an environment and generate periodic change sets that correspond to data that has changed in the various source systems. Destination systems can subscribe to change sets and receive the appropriate change sets by monitoring flags that the data synchronization application can set. Various classes of change sets that correspond to data within a particular change set can also be generated.

Energy information exchange

A method, system, and computer program product for maintaining a web session data spanning multiple servers. A web session is initiated for a web-based application via a client browser. A unique session key is generated for the web session and the web-based application. The session key is stored in the client browser. A web session page-level object is initialized. Session data is then loaded into a memory-mapped cache. Requests for session data from the client browser are received and responded to via a plurality of servers. The modified session data generated during the session is stored into a session database. The web session object is then flushed at the end of the session.

Maintaining web session data spanning multiple application servers in a session database

Disclosed are various embodiments for communicating with an integrated distribution management system (IDMS). An IDMS often employs a communications protocol that is incompatible with a service oriented architecture. Accordingly, embodiments of the disclosure can allow utility computing systems in a service oriented architecture or in a messaging based environment to communicate with an IDMS.

Integrated distribution management system channel adapter

A method, system, and computer readable medium for facilitating user authentication for accessing an application hosted on an external web site by users in an enterprise network. A request is received from a user a request is received from a user to access the application on the external web site. The user is redirected to a secure web page on an enterprise server to log in to the enterprise server. Authentication information for the user is formatted in compliance with a login specification for the application hosted on the external web site. The authentication information is encrypted in compliance with the login specification for the application hosted on the external web site. The user is then directed to the application hosted on the external web site, wherein the user can access the application without having to reenter login information.

Secure authentication for web-based applications

A method, system, and computer program product for dynamically routing query request messages to a database server resident on a computing system. A configurable port proxy service is created on the database server that listens on a particular port for query request messages. An administrator port is implemented on the database server that communicates with the port proxy service. The configurable port proxy service is pinged by a traffic manager application operating on the computing system to determine if a database server instance is available to send database traffic. Query requests are routed to the database server instance if the database server instance is available to accept query request messages. Each administrator command from a port console application is serialized to a configuration file as it issues that will return the port proxy service to a previous state if the database server fails.

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McDonough, GA, United States of America

Gregory Ray Floyd