Patent ID: 8880658

Claim:
A method for publishing data emanating from an intelligent electronic device (IED), the method comprising: assigning an identifier to at least one data field, wherein the at least one data field is associated with a short address attribute in the data emanating from the intelligent electronic device; and dynamically updating the identifier based on user specific configuration data by an IED configuration tool, based on at least one of automatic configuration data from the IED configuration tool, and user specific configuration data, wherein the updated identifier is indicative of one or more properties of the at least one data object; receiving IED configuration data from the IED configuration tool, wherein the IED configuration data includes configuration data associated with the at least one data object; verifying the IED configuration data based on the updated identifier; and publishing data of the intelligent electronic device, wherein the published data includes short address attribute having the updated identifier, wherein the updated identifier is associated with at least one of a channel of a virtual output card in the IED, an Input/Output node of the IED, and a channel of an input board configured using the IED configuration tool.