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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2010
Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Austin, TX (US);
Andre A. Dicaire, Round Rock, TX (US);
Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Austin, TX (US);
Andre A. Dicaire, Round Rock, TX (US);
Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to communicatively couple a portable device to process control devices in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving via a wireless module a selection of an I/O channel from a portable device, determining a process control device associated with the selected I/O channel, initiating a pass-through session from the wireless module to the determined process control device via the I/O channel, and enabling communication between the portable device and the process control device via the pass-through session to communicatively couple the portable device to the process control device.