Patent ID: 7899619

Claim:
An intelligent electronic device comprising: i) an antenna; ii) a GPS module coupled to the antenna and receiving signals from the antenna and further capable of processing the signals and outputting a time reference and a location corresponding to the physical location of the GPS module; iii) a processor coupled to the GPS module and executing instructions for processing the time reference and location and outputting a processed time referenced and a processed location; iv) a serial stream generator coupled to the processor and receiving the processed time reference and the processed location and further outputting a serial stream containing both the processed time reference and the processed location to another intelligent electronic device, the serial stream generator further configured to output an IRIG-B serial stream having a plurality of user definable bits; and wherein the serial stream generator is further configured to output, using at least one of the user definable bits of the IRIG-B stream, the processed location over a series of IRIG-B frames.