Flow-through provisioning in utility AMR/AMI networks
AssigneeSilver Sring Networks, Inc.
InventorsDonald L. Reeves, James Pace, Brian Grady, Raj Vaswani
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Abstract
A system associated with a utility network having product distribution pathways, including a device management module for automatically provisioning at least a subset of a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with the pathways based on configuration state information received from the subset of the plurality of electronic utility devices and a comparison of the received configuration state information and predefined configuration state information.
Claims64
A system associated with a utility network having product distribution pathways, the system comprising:
- a device management module for automatically provisioning at least a subset of a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with the pathways based on configuration state information received from the subset of the plurality of electronic utility devices and a comparison of the received configuration state information and predefined configuration state information.
A device management system comprising:
- software, stored in computer readable medium, for receiving configuration state information from at least one of a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with a product distribution pathway of a utility network, and determining whether to configure the electronic utility device based on a comparison of the received configuration state information and predefined configuration state information.
A method of provisioning electronic utility devices associated with product distribution pathways of a utility network, comprising:
- receiving information from an electronic utility device;
- identifying a configuration state for the electronic utility device from the received electronic utility device information;
- and
- determining whether to configure the electronic utility device based upon the identified configuration state.
A method of provisioning a plurality of electronic utility devices associated with product distribution pathways of a utility network, comprising:
- receiving configuration state information from an electronic utility device;
- comparing the received configuration state information to predefined configuration state information;
- calculating an electronic utility device program seal from the received configuration state information;
- and
- verifying the integrity of the electronic utility devices according to the calculated program seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.