公开(公告)号：US10116488B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-30

申请号：US14991021

申请日：2016-01-08

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Joseph M. Zaccaria ,  Matthew A. Hermans ,  Raymond A. Spangler ,  Evan J. Kausalik ,  Javier Medina

IPC: G06F15/177 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04L12/26 ,  G06F21/57 ,  G05B19/042 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: A system may be provided in which an industrial control network may be discovered and characterized such that useful networking data may be presented to a user and/or monitored for events. By configuring an interrogator device to send a “generic” message to ranges of network locations, presences of devices at particular locations may be determined. The generic message may direct any of numerous devices types to provide a response including multiple parameters. The interrogator may store such parameters in “data records,” and may advantageously send periodic collections of data records, or “data sets,” to a processing manager. The processing manager, in turn, may communicate with one or more data structures to format, enrich and/or monitor the networking data to more conveniently and reliably capture and maintain networks and connected devices.

公开(公告)号：US20160127207A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-05

申请号：US14991021

申请日：2016-01-08

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Joseph M. Zaccaria ,  Matthew A. Hermans ,  Raymond A. Spangler ,  Evan J. Kausalik ,  Javier Medina

IPC: H04L12/26

CPC classification number: H04L29/12113 ,  G05B19/0428 ,  G06F21/577 ,  H04L41/0659 ,  H04L41/0816 ,  H04L43/045 ,  H04L43/18 ,  H04L61/1541

Abstract: A system may be provided in which an industrial control network may be discovered and characterized such that useful networking data may be presented to a user and/or monitored for events. By configuring an interrogator device to send a “generic” message to ranges of network locations, presences of devices at particular locations may be determined. The generic message may direct any of numerous devices types to provide a response including multiple parameters. The interrogator may store such parameters in “data records,” and may advantageously send periodic collections of data records, or “data sets,” to a processing manager. The processing manager, in turn, may communicate with one or more data structures to format, enrich and/or monitor the networking data to more conveniently and reliably capture and maintain networks and connected devices.

Abstract translation: 可以提供一种可以发现和表征工业控制网络的系统，使得可以向用户呈现有用的网络数据和/或监视事件。 通过配置询问器设备将“通用”消息发送到网络位置的范围，可以确定特定位置处的设备的存在。 通用消息可以引导许多设备类型中的任何一种以提供包括多个参数的响应。 询问器可以将这些参数存储在“数据记录”中，并且可有利地向处理管理器发送数据记录或“数据集”的周期性集合。 处理管理器又可以与一个或多个数据结构通信，以格式化，丰富和/或监视网络数据，以更方便和可靠地捕获和维护网络和连接的设备。