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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
May. 03, 2012
Jeffrey David Parent, Ames, IA (US);
Richard Joseph Vanderah, Marshalltown, IA (US);
Jeffrey David Parent, Ames, IA (US);
Richard Joseph Vanderah, Marshalltown, IA (US);
Bristol, Inc., Watertown, CT (US);
Abstract
Flow computers having wireless communication protocol interfaces and related methods are disclosed. In one example, a method involves receiving a request to be sent to a wireless device in a network of wireless devices, the request to be received via a remote terminal unit application executed on a processor within a flow computer, and communicating the request to the wireless device via a communications interface module, the communications interface module to be communicatively coupled to the processor via a backplane contained within a housing of the flow computer, the backplane to provide communications according to a high speed data bus communications protocol.