US 2015/0319227 A1Published application

Distributed historization system

AssigneeInvensys Systems, Inc.

InventorsShiewun Lie, Vinay T. Kamath, Ryan Benedict Saldanha, Abhijit Manushree

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Abstract

A system for historizing process control data. A configurator module registers a data source device with a historian server and indicates to the historian server to generate data source registration information for identifying the registered data source device. The historian server generates and stores the data source registration information. The historian server also generates a connection token comprising the data source registration information. The configurator module forwards the connection token to the data source device, which stores the token and sends it to the historian server with data. The historian server compares the connection token received from the data source device to the connection token stored by the historian server, wherein if they match, the historian server stores the data from data source device.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a data source device comprising a registration processor and a corresponding memory device coupled thereto storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the registration processor, implement a configurator module for:
connecting the data source device to a historian server;
registering the data source device with the historian server;
indicating to the historian server to generate data source registration information for identifying the registered data source device;
receiving a connection token from the historian server;
saving the connection token;
and
forwarding the connection token to the data source device;
and
a historian server comprising a corresponding memory device coupled thereto storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the historian server, implement a historian module for:
receiving the connection from the configurator module;
registering the data source device as indicated by the configurator module;
generating data source registration information for identifying the registered data source as indicated by the configurator module;
storing the data source registration information;
generating the connection token comprising the data source registration information;
and
sending the connection token to the configurator module;
wherein, in response to receiving the connection token from the configurator module, the data source device stores the connection token and sends data and the connection token to the historian server;
and
wherein the historian server compares the connection token received from the data source device to the connection token stored by the historian server and stores the data from data source device when the connection token received from the data source device and the connection token stored by the historian server match.

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A method for uploading data from a data source device to a historian server comprising:

connecting, by a configurator module, the data source device to a historian server;
registering, by the configurator module, the data source device with the historian server;
registering, by the historian server, the data source device as indicated by the configurator module;
indicating to the historian server, by the configurator module, to generate data source registration information for identifying the registered data source device;
generating, by the historian server, data source registration information for identifying the registered data source as indicated by the configurator module;
storing, by the historian server, the data source registration information;
generating, by the historian server, a connection token comprising data source registration information;
sending, by the historian server, the connection token to the configurator module;
receiving, by the configurator module, a connection token from the historian server;
saving, by the configurator module, the connection token;
forwarding, by the configurator module, the connection token to the data source device;
receiving, by the data source device, the connection token from the configurator module;
storing, by the data source device, the connection token;
sending, by the data source device, data and the connection token to the historian server;
and
comparing, by the historian server, the connection token received from the data source device to the connection token stored by the historian server, wherein the historian server stores the data from data source device when the connection token received from the data source device and the connection token stored by the historian server are found to match.

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