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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2000
Warren R. Germer, Hampton, NH (US);
Gregory P. Lavoie, Rochester, NH (US);
Robert E. Lee, Jr., Rochester, NH (US);
Maurice J. Ouellette, North Berwick, ME (US);
Mark J. Plis, Barrington, NH (US);
Virginia H. Zinkowski, E. Kingston, NH (US);
Warren R. Germer, Hampton, NH (US);
Gregory P. Lavoie, Rochester, NH (US);
Robert E. Lee, Jr., Rochester, NH (US);
Maurice J. Ouellette, North Berwick, ME (US);
Mark J. Plis, Barrington, NH (US);
Virginia H. Zinkowski, E. Kingston, NH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention, in one embodiment, is a method for operating an electronic electric meter having current and voltage sensors configured to generate measurements of current and voltage, respectively; a microcomputer coupled to the current and voltage sensors and having on-chip masked read only memory (ROM); and a nonvolatile, alterable memory coupled to the microcomputer. The method includes steps of: storing vectors pointing to program portions of the ROM in the non-volatile memory; and using the stored vectors to operate the microcomputer to execute the program portions stored in the ROM to control operation of the meter.