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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2015
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Dayin Xu, Shanghai, CN;
David Brandt, New Berlin, WI (US);
Yi Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Clifford J. Whitehead, Jr., Cleveland, OH (US);
Guolin Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
An electronic device in an industrial control system may be connected as a network device, such as via EtherNet/IP. The device may be configured to provide an 'unconnected' message notification (or 'active report') when the device detects an enumerated condition, such as an error or deviation. An unconnected message may be a message sent between two or more applications (which may be of the same or different devices) without pre-established communication channel bindings. An unconnected message may include routing path information for routing the message to the host computer, application path information for associating the applications, and data payload information related to at least one of a state of the electronic device and the enumerated condition.