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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
May. 21, 2009
Paulo Mendes Silva, Wateringen, NL;
Karl Weber, Altdorf, DE;
Paulo Mendes Silva, Wateringen, NL;
Karl Weber, Altdorf, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method of transferring data in an automation system having a plurality of communicatively connected communication stations is provided. The communicative connection of the communication stations follows a predefined hierarchy, in which a plurality of communication stations are grouped together in a line and an alias matched to the hierarchy is assigned to each communication station. Telegrams sent in the automation system designate a destination communication station also by its alias, whereby each line is closed to form a ring by way of its transition, designated as entry point, from the next higher line by way of the entry point, and telegrams in the ring thus resulting with the line are forwarded both in the direction of the hierarchy of the allocated alias designations and also in the opposite direction.