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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munchen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364187 ; 364184 ; 364131 ; 395181 ;
Abstract
An update method is described for a supplementary automation system, which is to be coupled to a starting automation system, where the starting automation system controls a technical system. In the present invention, updating takes place free of update-interruption as opposed to interrupting program execution by the starting automation system, performing the updating and resuming program execution by both automation systems. In one embodiment, a non-time-critical system state is awaited and then updating is performed. In a second embodiment, the updating is interspersed in small time slices into the program execution.