Patent ID: 9379532
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,H02H

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for protecting electronic devices from electrical disturbances, comprising: determining, prior to an occurrence of an electrical disturbance, a numerical probability of an electrical disturbance on an electrical line in an electrical grid occurring at a future time at a specified location; accessing a plurality of device protection profiles from at least one computer storage device, each device protection profile of the plurality of device protection profiles comprising a set of thresholds having a plurality of thresholds, each threshold of the plurality of thresholds in a specific device protection profile corresponding to a different numerical probability of an electrical disturbance and being mapped to a particular device topology of a set of device topologies associated with a set of electronic devices positioned at the specified location; comparing the set of thresholds in the plurality of device protection profiles to the numerical probability to identify a matching device topology from the set of device topologies; automatically applying to a first electronic device of the set of electronic devices, a first protection activity specified in a first device topology corresponding to the first electronic device, the first protection activity including isolating the first electronic device from an electrical power source, and automatically applying to a second electronic device of the set of electronic devices, a second protection activity specified in a second device topology corresponding to the second electronic device, the second protection activity being different from the first protection activity.