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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Sean M. Scoggins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stuart Mills, Knightdale, NC (US);
Robert T. Mason, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew J. Borleske, Garner, NC (US);
Kathryn J. Smith, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dileep Rudran, Cary, NC (US);
Sean M. Scoggins, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stuart Mills, Knightdale, NC (US);
Robert T. Mason, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew J. Borleske, Garner, NC (US);
Kathryn J. Smith, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dileep Rudran, Cary, NC (US);
Elster Electricity, LLC, Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems of enforcing a demand reset in a meter that communicates via a wireless network. When billing data is received by a server, it is accompanied by a demand reset counter. The counter is compared to a counter stored on the server. If they received counter is less than the server counter, it is determined that the meter missed a demand reset. The server then instructs the meter to perform a billing read and to perform a demand reset to ensure that accurate demand data is received by the server.