Patent ID: 7415368
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G01D,G01R,G06F,H04L,Y02B,Y04S,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An electric power meter, comprising: a digital sampler for digitally sampling voltage and current; a memory for storing said digitally sampled voltage and current; at least one processor for performing power calculations on said digitally sampled voltage and current, and converting said calculations and said digitally sampled voltage and current into at least one network protocol, said at least one processor being configured to simultaneously execute a plurality of different tasks related to said stored voltage and current in response to a plurality of concurrent requests related to results of said different tasks and submitted by multiple users; a network interface for interfacing with an external network; an external device interface for connecting an external device to said electric power meter; and further wherein said network protocol is one of e-mail, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).