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AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKenwood Hall, Scot Tutkovics, David Vasko, Brian Batke, David Callaghan
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Systems and methods are provided for communications across multiple networks in a substantially transparent and seamless manner. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a communications component to facilitate communications in an industrial controller network, where the communications component can include a protocol encapsulation component, a network services interface, or a protocol converter to process multiple network protocols. A controller component employs at least one network protocol to communicate with at least one other network protocol via the communications component. Also, the communications component can include multiple communications stacks to facilitate communications with the multiple network protocols.
An industrial automation and communications system, comprising:
A computer readable medium having a data structure stored thereon to process a plurality of network protocols, comprising:
An industrial control communications method, comprising:
An industrial control communications systems, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.