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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Richard A. Blair, Plaistow, NH (US);
Nitin Dhayagude, North Andover, MA (US);
Kenneth S. Lee, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kerry Van DE Steeg, Windham, NH (US);
Heinz Schaffner, Rödermark, DE;
Torsten Joachim Brune, Hainburg, DE;
Sascha Kreβ, Hösbach, DE;
Richard A. Blair, Plaistow, NH (US);
Nitin Dhayagude, North Andover, MA (US);
Kenneth S. Lee, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kerry Van de Steeg, Windham, NH (US);
Heinz Schaffner, Rödermark, DE;
Torsten Joachim Brune, Hainburg, DE;
Sascha Kreβ, Hösbach, DE;
Schneider Electric USA, Inc., Palatine, IL (US);
Abstract
A modular distributed I/O system for an industrial automation network that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system by maintaining a consistent I/O image representation of the distributed I/O network for various physical distributed I/O configurations and managing reconfiguration changes remotely using Virtual Placeholder objects.