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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
John Alexander Petzen, III, Roanoke, VA (US);
Timothy John Kolb, Salem, VA (US);
Dana Robert Kreft, Roanoke, VA (US);
Isaac Millen Rushing, Fincastle, VA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An industrial controller that controls operation of an industrial system. The industrial controller comprises a processor and a memory storing instruction, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform certain functions. In particular, the instructions cause the processor to communicate high speed data in a first industrial protocol between the industrial controller and a high speed device during a first frame section but not during a second frame section of a controller frame of the industrial controller and communicate linking device data in a second industrial protocol between the industrial controller and a linking device during the second frame section but not during the first frame section or during the third frame section of the controller frame.