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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2018
Beckhoff Automation Gmbh, Verl, DE;
Thorsten Bunte, Gütersloh, DE;
Holger Büttner, Berlin, DE;
Erik Vonnahme, Salzkotten, DE;
Dirk Janssen, Verl, DE;
Thomas Rettig, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, DE;
Hans Beckhoff, Verl, DE;
Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Verl, DE;
Abstract
A communications network comprises a plurality of participants. A first participant transmits a message repeating sequence of N≥2 successive messages to a second participant. An action which can be performed by the second participant is assigned to each message in the sequence. The first participant begins to transmit one of the N messages at N successive transmission times T_I (I=O, . . . , N−1). Each of the N messages contains a field defining a waiting time. The second participant selects one message from among the messages in the sequence which are successfully received by the second participant as a useful message, measures a time elapsed since reception of the useful message, and performs the action assigned to the useful message when the elapsed time has reached the assigned waiting time.