Patent ID: 8082500

Claim:
A system for communicating with an intelligent electronic device suitable to be operatively coupled to a switching device used in a power system, comprising: at least one computing device which is operatively connected to said intelligent electronic device and comprises a monitor, a memory, and a processor; and a user-interface software program instruction which is stored in said memory and when executed by the processor provides a plurality of wizards selectable by the user, wherein the plurality of wizards comprises two or more wizards selected from the group consisting of a factory set-up and test wizard, a commissioning wizard, a data download wizard, and an alarm resolution wizard, and wherein upon selecting a wizard to be executed, said user-interface software program instruction causes the display on said monitor of a first window displaying wizard controls for guiding a user in the execution of one or more steps related to the selected wizard, and a second window separate from said first window displaying information related to the step under execution and one or more controls of the second window which are available to the user in parallel to said wizard controls displayed in the first window.