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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Musashino-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuo Okabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yukiyo Akisada, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Miyazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuki Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Musashino-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication device communicating in conformance with a prescribed communication standard. The device includes a storage storing at least a first virtual program that includes a program implementing a first function of the communication device and a second virtual program that includes a program implementing a second function of the communication device. It also includes an executor configured to successively execute the first and second virtual programs, and a switching controller configured to read at least a part of either one of the first and second virtual programs from the storage, to store the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs into a memory of the executor, to execute the part of either one of the first and second virtual programs in the executor, thereby, to switch the first and second virtual programs to be executed in the executor.