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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2010
Rodney Kohout, Brainerd, MN (US);
Stanley E. Mchann, Jr., Crosslake, MN (US);
Rodney Kohout, Brainerd, MN (US);
Stanley E. McHann, Jr., Crosslake, MN (US);
Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC, Pequot Lakes, MN (US);
Abstract
Various aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying network events. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring signal characteristic values for signals transmitted over a communications channel of a power line communications system and determining that a signal level value for the channel is less than a threshold signal level value for the channel. In response to determining that the signal level value for the channel is less than the threshold signal level value for the channel, a signal to noise ratio for the communications channel is computed and it is determined that the signal to noise ratio for the channel exceeds a threshold value. In response to determining that the signal to noise ratio for the communications channel exceeds the threshold value, data received over the communications channel is stored as valid data.