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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Ikeo, Kusatsu, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 12/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a management device that assists in setting a ring topology in a design network configuration. This management devicemanages a network that includes a master deviceand a plurality of slave devicesconnected to the master device, the management deviceincluding a ring topology assessment unitfor assessing, on the basis of design network configuration information Dcreated by a user and slave information Dthat represents the unique information per type of each slave device, whether a ring topology configured from a plurality of slave devicescan be generated.