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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Siemens Industry, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Naveen Kumar Singa, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Anant Kumar Mishra, Charlotte, NC (US);
Joseph Kernich, Hanahan, SC (US);
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Method and apparatus to provide protocol translation and selectable data exchange in a client/server system are provided. A tag list is extracted from a legacy client deviceconnected to a legacy serverusing a protocol corresponding to the legacy server. A configuration manager deviceis used to configure the extracted tag list to obtain a selected tag list excerpt of the extracted tag list. The configuring device is arranged to map the selected tag list excerpt to a configuration adapted for a respectiveserver, and to define contextualization. Serverprovides industrial automation services using a next-generation protocol, e.g., OPC UA or MTConnect. A tag list is generated to configure server. A stream of data points of the selected tag list excerpt of the tag list extracted from the legacy client device is transferred to one or more client devicesconnected to server