Patent ID: 9273983
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G01D,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for importing, validating, and estimating high volume meter data, the method comprising: receiving meter data from a plurality of external devices, each external device being assigned to one of a plurality of device groupings; sorting the meter data into a plurality of workbins respectively associated with the plurality of device groupings; compressing the meter data contained in each workbin into a plurality of data files, each data file being identifiable by workbin; importing, for one workbin at a time, all data files associated with such workbin; storing historic data associated with each workbin; validating the meter data contained within the data files against the historic data, by comparing such meter data with historic data from comparable prior periods of time during a plurality of processing windows; using stored historic data for a given workbin to estimate replacement values for meter data that is determined to be invalid or missing for such given workbin during the plurality of processing windows; forming the validated and estimated meter data into a plurality of port files; and storing the plurality of import files;