Patent ID: 8138934

Claim:
A method of confirming a power outage report comprising: receiving, by a head end server, the power outage report from a first node coupled to a first network; querying, by the head end server, one or more other nodes coupled to the first network about a power outage, in response to receiving the power outage report; receiving, by the head end server, one or more responses from the one or more other nodes coupled to the first network; determining, by the head end server, that the power outage report is not false based on the one or more responses from the one or more other nodes in the first network; transmitting, by the head end server, a request to download any untransmitted information from the first node; receiving, by the first node, the request to download all untransmitted information; determining, by the first node, that untransmitted information is present in one or more tables stored in a memory of the first node, the tables selected from the group consisting of a history logger table, an event table, a profile table, and a self-read table; creating, by the first node, a report comprising the untransmitted information; transmitting, by the first node, the untransmitted information; and receiving, by the head end server, the untransmitted information from the node.