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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:
Jun. 17, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Inventors:

Julie Nguyen, Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Stephen A. Wenner, Akron, OH (US);

Eric Eilberg, Rocky River, OH (US);

Jessica E Forguites, Willoughby, OH (US);

Mark G. Devonshire, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);

Assignee:

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/22 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 61/2517 (2022.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/22 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 61/2517 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05);
Abstract

A method for generating a topology view of an industrial parallel redundancy protocol (PRP) network includes: detecting, by one or more processors, a plurality of nodes on the PRP network; determining, by the one or more processors, a first set of the plurality of nodes that connects to a first local area network (LAN); determining, by the one or more processors, a second set of the plurality of nodes that connects to a second LAN; determining, by the one or more processors, connections between the plurality of nodes; and generating, by the one or more processors, the topology view of the PRP network comprising a topology view of the first LAN and the second LAN according to the determined connections.


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