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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2008
Melvin Joseph White, Ii, Germantown, MD (US);
James Douglas Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
Melvin Joseph White, II, Germantown, MD (US);
James Douglas Mollenkopf, Fairfax, VA (US);
Current Technologies, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
A system for operating a power line communications system is provided. One embodiment is comprised of a plurality of network elements, which may take the form of repeaters, bypass devices, backhaul devices, wireless backhaul devices, enhanced bypass device, communication interface devices and others. In one embodiment, two groups of network elements in the same electrical distribution system are isolated except selected communication link. The network elements respond to requests for data and send out of limit notifications to a remote computer.