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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2011
Rhett Smith, Moscow, ID (US);
Ryan Bradetich, Pullman, WA (US);
Rhett Smith, Moscow, ID (US);
Ryan Bradetich, Pullman, WA (US);
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
According to various embodiments, a communication switch may create and/or manage a variety of configurable network relationships between intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) connected via disparate network interfaces using a variety of communication protocols. Accordingly, a communication switch may provide media translation between various types of physical network ports and communication protocol conversion between various communication protocols. For example, a communication switch may be used to create a networked group of IEDs in which some IEDs are connected via Ethernet ports and other IEDs are connected via D-subminiature ports and/or optical ports. The communication switch may create and/or manage network relationships such as publisher/subscriber, master/slave, multidrop configurations, star configurations, and/or other complex network relationships between two or more IEDs or groups of IEDs.