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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Endress+hauser Process Solutions Ag, Reinach, CH;
Karl Büttner, Neuenburg, DE;
Axel Eidmann, Lörrach, DE;
Benedikt Spielmann, Basel, CH;
Benjamin Schaupp, Rheinfelden, DE;
Martin Lohmann, Gerlingen, DE;
Oliver Zwick, Durach, DE;
Harald Freimark, Lörrach, DE;
Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG, Reinach, CH;
Abstract
A field device of automation technology having a function for checking quality of a network connection includes an operating electronics and at least one communication interface for connecting to a communication network having one or more network participants and for building a communication connection, wherein a communication stack and a PHY are associated with the communication interface, wherein the communication stack and the PHY are embodied continually to gain and to store communication information regarding the communication connection, wherein the operating electronics is embodied to read out communication information from the communication stack and from the PHY, and by means of an algorithm to subject the communication information to computation and based on the result of the computation to classify a communication state.