Patent Document ID: 8942970
Application ID: 13381008
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for configuring an intelligent electronic device (TED), the method comprising: in a processor of the IED: executing a flexible data modeling technique to dynamically adapt a data model based on one of an application output and a physical field input, wherein the flexible data model technique comprises: pre-creating a data structure for the plurality of data objects in a configuration tool environment and in firmware, wherein the data structure includes the one or more common data classes and corresponding short address fields; creating a requisite number of data object instances for the plurality of data objects based on the dynamic capability of the IED; generating a generic data model using the requisite number of data objects instances; assigning a logical node class in the configuration tool environment based on the one of the application output and the physical field input; and dynamically creating a requisite number of logical node instances corresponding to the logical node class using the plurality of data objects, wherein a logical node comprises the corresponding short address fields for the plurality of data objects corresponding to the logical node class.