US 10,896,079 B2Granted

Common gateway platform

AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

InventorsDouglas J. Reichard, Nicholas J. Marangoni, Stephen C. Briant, Sonal R. Dubey, Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam, Paul C. Whitten, Deepa S. Bekal

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and software disclosed herein relate to a common gateway platform system. In an implementation, program instructions direct a computing system to execute a common gateway platform environment comprising an adapter comprising an adapter name identification, a broker connected to the adapter, and an application connected to the adapter. The application also generates an action configured according to a common gateway platform protocol, transmit the action to the broker, and receive a reaction from the broker. The broker is configured to identify the adapter based on the adapter identifier and transmit the action to the adapter. The broker also receives the reaction from the adapter and transmit the reaction to the application. The adapter is configured to acquire the data from the industrial automation environment based on an adapter instruction in the action, generate the reaction comprising the acquired data, and transmit the reaction to the broker.

Claims20

Dependent claims

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon, wherein the program instructions, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to:

execute a common gateway platform environment comprising:
an adapter connected to an application and comprising an adapter name identification;
and
a broker connected to the adapter;
wherein the broker is configured to:
receive, from the application, an action that accords with a common gateway platform protocol and comprises:
a uniform resource identifier (URI) comprising an adapter identifier that identifies the adapter by its adapter name identification, and a variable name identification that identifies data to be acquired;
and
an adapter instruction for the adapter to acquire, from an industrial automation environment communicatively connected to the adapter, the data;
identify the adapter based at least on the adapter identifier;
transmit the action to the adapter;
receive, from the adapter, a reaction comprising the URI;
associate the URI with the application;
identify the application based at least on the reaction by processing the URI and determining the application associated with the URI;
and
transmit the reaction to the application;
and
wherein the adapter is configured to:
receive the action from the broker;
acquire the data from the industrial automation environment based at least on the adapter instruction;
generate the reaction comprising the data;
and
transmit the reaction to the broker.

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A system to acquire data generated by an industrial automation machine in an industrial automation environment, the system comprising:

a machine system comprising the industrial automation machine;
and
a common gateway platform system, communicatively coupled to the machine system, comprising:
one or more applications;
one or more brokers communicatively connected to the one or more applications;
and
a plurality of adapters communicatively connected to the one or more brokers;
wherein a first broker of the one or more brokers is configured to:
receive, from a first application of the one or more applications, an action message that accords with a common gateway platform protocol and comprises a uniform resource identifier (URI) comprising an adapter identifier and a variable name identification that identifies data generated by the industrial automation machine;
identify a first adapter of the plurality of adapters based at least on the action message;
transmit the action message to the first adapter;
and
subsequent to receiving from the first adapter, a reaction message comprising the URI:
associate the URI with the first application;
and
identify, based at least on the reaction message, the first application by processing the URI and determining the first application associated with the URI;
and
wherein the first adapter is configured to:
acquire the data generated by the industrial automation machine based at least on a processing of the action message;
create, based at least on the data generated by the industrial automation machine, the reaction message;
and
transmit, to the broker via the reaction message, the data generated by the industrial automation machine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/673,604Filed 4 Nov 2019 · continuation
Priority: 5 Apr 2017
Published: US 2020/0065170 A127 Feb 2020
Granted: 19 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 9/547
Interprogram communication: remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
G05B 19/4185
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G06F 9/541
Interprogram communication: via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…

Family

Application62/481,944Us provisional application · filed 5 Apr 2017
Application15/719,960Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Sep 2017
US 2020/0065170 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Feb 2020
US 10,467,072 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0293119 A1Published application
US 10,896,079 B2This patent

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