Patent ID: 7050280

Claim:
A high speed transfer system, comprising: three protection and control devices, wherein a first and a second one of said protection and control devices detect failures on respective first and second feeder bus-bars, wherein, responsive to a detection of a failed one of the first and second feeder bus-bars, a third one of said protection and control devices coordinating system functionality including causing switchgear connected to the failed active feeder bus-bar to open so as to disconnect an electric load from the failed feeder bus-bar and to connect the electric load to an unfailed one of the first and second feeder bus-bars, wherein the third one of said protection and control devices comprises a processor running computer code which includes: a software architecture comprising a first software part and a second software part that are run in parallel with each other, said first software part being cyclically executed, said second software part being an event-driven process performed in responsive to external events and run asynchronously with respect to said first software part, said second software part comprising a run-time procedure for assigning an execution priority to the external events of said second software part and to cycles of said first software part.