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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Inventors:

Sivaram Balasubramanian, Solon, OH (US);

Kendal R. Harris, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Mark A. Flood, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Kyle E. Neet, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Scott A. Pierce, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Anthony G. Gibart, Milwaukee, WI (US);

Raymond R. Husted, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

David M. Fort, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Chandresh R. Chaudhari, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Jonathan D. Bradford, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Assignee:

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); H04L 12/939 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4186 (2013.01); G05B 19/41855 (2013.01); H04L 49/552 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system of communicating data over a high availability industrial control system is disclosed. The industrial control system includes a first data producer, a second data producer in communicative connection with the first data producer, a first data consumer, and a second data consumer in communicative connection with the first data consumer. The system further includes the first producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the first producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules, and the second producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the second producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules. Also disclosed is a method of communicating data over the high availability industrial control system.


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