Patent ID: 11862958
Assignee: SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A method of operating intelligent electronic device (IED) in an electrical power system, the method comprising:
during a startup of the IED, initially implementing, on a first processing unit of the IED, protection computing instructions from a first memory section to at least one of monitor for or mitigate at least one fault in the electrical power system;
only after implementing the protection computing instructions from the first memory section, implementing, on the first processing unit, additional computing instructions from the second memory section separately from the protection computing instructions from the first memory section; and
disabling the additional computing instructions from the second memory section from being accessed by the first processing unit and implemented on the first processing unit before and while the protection computing instructions from the first memory section are being implemented.