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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2017
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Heinrich Meyer, Wendelstein, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for configuring a communication module of at least one RFID reader that is connected via the communication module to a communication network, wherein the at least one RFID reader is connected to the communication module via a serial interface, wherein configuration information comprising at least communication network address information and device type information is stored in a configuration storage unit of the communication module, where the configuration information stored in the configuration storage unit of the communication module is conveyed via the serial interface to the at least one RFID reader and stored there in a predetermined configuration storage area, and where the configuration information stored in the predetermined configuration storage area of the RFID reader is loaded during a device start of a replacement communication module used instead of the communication module after a successful validity check for configuration of the replacement communication device.