Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, or GRASP, were introduced by T. Feo and
M. Resende in 1989 as a probabilistic heuristic for solving hard set covering problems. Soon …

A system for determining service outages and restorations includes an outage management
server (OMS) that generates reports of outages and restoration information for metering …

EP O 395 495 A1 10, 1990 EP O 446979 A1 9, 1991 EP O 629 098 A2 12, 1994 GB 2
118340 A 10, 1983 GB 2157 448 A 10, 1985 GB 2186. 404 A 8, 1987 GB O2 222,898 A 3 …

(52) US Cl............................ 340/870.02: 340/870.03; Primary Examiner Timothy Edwards, Jr.
7O2/61 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Woodcock Washburn LLP (58) Field of Classification …

A frame relay service offers virtual private networks to customers by provisioning a set of
long‐term private virtual circuits (PVCs) between customer endpoints on a large backbone …

Meters are configured using either a program update method or a meter update method. In
the program update method, meters associated with a specified configuration program are …

A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter.
The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the …

3,455,815 A 7, 1969 Saltzberg et al............ 340,163 3,858.212 A 12/1974 Tompkins et al....
343/100 CS 3,878,512 A 4, 1975 Kobayashi et al...... 340,168 R 3,973,240 A 8/1976 …

EP O 395 495 A1 10, 1990 EP O 446 979 A1 9, 1991 EP O 629 098 A2 12, 1994 GB 2 118
340 A 10, 1983 GB 2 157 448 A 10, 1985 GB 2186. 404 A 8, 1987 GB O2 222 898 A 3, 1990 …

3,445,815 A 5/1969 Saltzberg et al............. 340,163 3,858.212 A 12/1974 Tompkins et al......
343/100 CS 3,878,512 A 4, 1975 Kobayashi et al....... 340,168 R 3,973,240 A 8/1976 …