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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alain Lafuite, Nice, FR;
Jean-Jacques Genin, Nice, FR;
Assignee:
Schneider Electric Industries SA, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
A coupler for a programmable logic controller connecting to an Ethernet network under the TCP/IP protocol in order to communicate with various equipment. The coupler uses two disk partitions in a flash memory, one acting as a disk for the real time operating system and the other acting as a user disk. The two disks are accessed through the FTP protocol on TCP/IP, and the user disk space is managed by an HTTP server.