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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Bristol, Inc., Watertown, CT (US);
Richard Joseph Vanderah, Marshalltown, IA (US);
David Lee Smid, Marshalltown, IA (US);
Rickie Lee Condit, Marshalltown, IA (US);
BRISTOL, INC., Watertown, CT (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to implement a remote terminal unit network are disclosed. An example method involves allocating, via a processor of a first remote terminal unit, a first time slot of a first frame of a first transmission schedule to the first remote terminal unit, the first remote terminal unit to be in communication with a second remote terminal unit in a network associated with a process control system and to be in communication with a host of the process control system, the first remote terminal unit to communicate first data over the network during the first time slot, and allocating, via the processor, a second time slot of the first frame to the second remote terminal unit, the second remote terminal unit to communicate second data over the network during the second time slot.