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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2016
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield, OH (US);
Joseph M. Zaccaria, Brookfield, WI (US);
Matthew A. Hermans, Saukville, WI (US);
Raymond A. Spangler, Bakersfield, CA (US);
Evan J. Kausalik, Appleton, WI (US);
Javier Medina, Menomonee Falls, WI (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
A system may be provided in which an industrial control network may be discovered and characterized such that useful networking data may be presented to a user and/or monitored for events. By configuring an interrogator device to send a 'generic' message to ranges of network locations, presences of devices at particular locations may be determined. The generic message may direct any of numerous devices types to provide a response including multiple parameters. The interrogator may store such parameters in 'data records,' and may advantageously send periodic collections of data records, or “data sets,” to a processing manager. The processing manager, in turn, may communicate with one or more data structures to format, enrich and/or monitor the networking data to more conveniently and reliably capture and maintain networks and connected devices.