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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:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2009
Applicants:
Lennart Balgård, Arboga, SE;
Tomas Lennvall, Västerås, SE;
Stefan Svensson, Västerås, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ABB Research Ltd., Zürich, CH;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04M 1/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for joining a wireless node of a field device such as a sensor or actuator to a wireless network connected to an industrial monitoring or control system. A handheld wireless device is utilized including hardware and software for communicating with the wireless node of a field device. A new communication configuration necessary for the new node to use in order to join the wireless network is sent from the handheld device to a new node. A wireless handheld device and an industrial monitoring or control system and a computer program.