APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CREATING ONE OR MORE SLOW-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS UTILIZING A REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION CHANNEL

摘要

An intelligent electronic device having a slow speed communications link creates one or more virtual communications channels using unused or dedicated bits from a primary real-time communications channel. The virtual communications channels are used to transport low-speed information, such as fault location information, device configuration information, device revision information, and date / time information.