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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2019
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for providing topology information, use of a name service server, a device, a computer program, a computer-readable medium and a method for configuring a device to be named within an industrial network, wherein a) the device to be named receives a neighbouring name message from a neighbouring device, b) a self-naming module creates a topological neighbouring domain name based on the neighbouring name message, c) the self-naming module transmits the topological neighbouring domain name to a name service server, d) the self-naming module receives from the name service server a response message, which includes at least one device name of the device to be named belonging to the topological neighbouring domain name, and e) at least one device name from the response message is assigned to the device to be named and this name is stored as the device name by the self-naming module.