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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10594555 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

May. 05, 2017

Cloud-enabled testing of control systems

Applicant:

Intelligent Platforms, Llc, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Inventors:

Keith George McNab, Albany, NY (US);

Robert Turner, Salem, VA (US);

Assignee:

INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS, LLC, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Attorney:

Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

Primary Examiner:

Alina A Boutah

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 8/73 (2018.01); H04W 4/00 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0869 (2013.01); G05B 19/0423 (2013.01); G05B 19/0426 (2013.01); G05B 19/4185 (2013.01); G05B 19/4186 (2013.01); G05B 19/4187 (2013.01); G05B 19/41835 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/73 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04W 4/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); G05B 2219/21086 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25064 (2013.01); H04L 41/0253 (2013.01); H04L 41/24 (2013.01); Y02P 90/18 (2015.11); Y02P 90/28 (2015.11); Y02P 90/86 (2015.11);
Abstract

A system and method for testing a control system is disclosed. The control system includes a field device located in one area and a controller located in a different area. A mobile application running on a mobile computing device is used by a technician to test the control system. Because both the mobile computing device and the controller are coupled to a cloud computing system, the technician may interface with the controller while located at the field device. This remote access to the controller allows a single technician to test the control system by interfacing with the controller and the field device simultaneously. In addition, the mobile application may retrieve data from the cloud computing system to facilitate testing and may transmit test results to the cloud for storage. Others having access to the stored results may view the progress and results of the testing.

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