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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2007
David R. Bueno, Pinellas Park, FL (US);
Clifford E. Kimmery, Clearwater, FL (US);
David R. Bueno, Pinellas Park, FL (US);
Clifford E. Kimmery, Clearwater, FL (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of communicatively coupling network elements supporting multiple network protocol types comprises receiving input having multiple network protocol types from an upper-level of the protocol stack at an endpoint-flexible-interface layer in a network endpoint, mapping the input between the upper-level of a protocol stack and a common-lower-level in the protocol stack at the endpoint-flexible-interface layer, and implementing the common-lower-level protocol layer to interface the multiple network protocol types to the physical layer, so that at least two endpoints of a network are communicatively coupled.