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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2000
Gregory P. Lavoie, Rochester, NH (US);
Robert E. Lee, Jr., Rochester, NH (US);
David D. Elmore, Brookston, IN (US);
Maurice J. Ouellette, North Berwick, ME (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention, in one embodiment, is a method for defining meter data calculations in an electronic electric meter. The method includes steps of: storing a set of predefined data calculation instructions in a non-volatile memory of the meter; storing a first set of vectors in a memory of the meter, the vectors pointing to data calculations of the set of predefined data calculation instructions; metering a plurality of electrical quantities of a power source; and controlling calculations performed on the metered electrical quantities in accordance with the data calculation instructions pointed to by the first stored set of vectors.