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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Scott A. Pierce, Concord Township, OH (US);
Anthony J. Diblasio, Valley View, OH (US);
Scott A. Pierce, Concord Township, OH (US);
Anthony J. Diblasio, Valley View, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
An industrial controller includes a processing unit and a memory. The industrial controller is operable to communicate using an optimized connection packet including I/O data from a plurality of I/O modules arranged as an unstructured data block. The processing unit is operable to operate on the I/O data within the optimized connection packet to control a process. The memory is operable to store a plurality of cast tags. Each cast tag is associated with one of the I/O modules and provides a logical reference to a subset of the unformatted data block including at least a portion of the I/O data for the associated I/O module.