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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2020
Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark J. Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gary K. Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A highly versatile process control or factory automation field device is configured with an interface and communication connection structure that enables the field device to operate as a data server that communicates with and supports multiple different applications or clients, either directly or indirectly, while simultaneously performing standard process and factory automation control functions. Moreover, various different process control and factory automation network architectures and, in particular, communication architectures, support the versatile field device to enable the versatile field device to simultaneously communicate with multiple different client devices or applications (each associated with a different system) via a common communication network infrastructure, using the same or different communication protocols.