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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:
Mar. 22, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Thomas Grosch, Roβtal, DE;

Jürgen Laforsch, Bühl, DE;

Albert Renschler, Ettlingen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/418 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4184 (2013.01); G05B 19/4186 (2013.01); H04L 12/40176 (2013.01); H04L 12/40182 (2013.01); H04L 12/40202 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31186 (2013.01); H04L 2012/4026 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method for setting up a redundant communication connection, and failsafe control unit, wherein a transport and/or networking functional unit of a communication device utilizes at least one communication network address associated with a primary control device and/or a secondary control device to set up two communication connections to a failsafe control unit that includes the primary control device and the secondary control device, where data transmitted via a first communication connection are forwarded from the primary control device to the secondary control device via a first synchronization connection such that data transmitted via a second communication connection are forwarded from the secondary control device to the primary control device via a second synchronization connection.


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