Patent ID: 7580235

Claim:
A method for handling circuit breaker information and/or state changes, comprising: receiving information corresponding to the states of multiple electronic circuit breakers; displaying the information corresponding to the states of the electronic circuit breakers in a menu-driven format at a graphical user interface; presenting a pointer at the graphical user interface; in response to a first command from a user, moving the pointer at the graphical user interface; in response to a second command from the user, selecting an icon aligned with the pointer, the icon corresponding to a selected one of the electronic circuit breakers; receiving a third command from the user; and in response to the third command, handling additional information corresponding to the electronic circuit breaker, or directing the electronic circuit breaker to change state, or both, wherein handling additional information includes presenting the information corresponding to the states of the electronic circuit breakers by displaying non-textual, graphical representations of the states.