Controlflash plus hardware serialization and registration
AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsFabio Malaspina, Jessica Ellen Forguites, Mark Stecklein, Ron E. Bliss
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Abstract
An industrial product inventory system generates a browsable inventory of a customer's industrial products based on product information retrieved from identity objects stored on the products. The system can also register this product information with a service provider that can provide product notifications and services based on analysis of the registered product information. These services can include verification of product authenticity, product or firmware upgrade notifications, security notifications, or other such services.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a memory that stores executable components;
- and
- a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising:
- a device discovery component configured to discover industrial products deployed at an industrial facility;
- an identity object retrieval component configured to retrieve information about the industrial products stored as identity objects on the industrial products;
- and
- a reporting component configured to render, on a client device, a browsable inventory of the industrial products based on the information about the industrial products.
A method, comprising:
- discovering, by a system comprising a processor, industrial products deployed at an industrial facility;
- retrieving, by the system, identity objects from the industrial products, wherein the identity objects contain information about the industrial products;
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- rendering, by the system on a client device, an interface that displays a browsable inventory of the industrial products based on the information contained in the identity objects.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- discovering industrial products operating at an industrial facility and having stored therein identity objects containing information about the industrial devices;
- retrieving identity objects from the industrial devices;
- and
- rendering, on a client device, an interface that displays a browsable inventory of the industrial devices based on the information contained in the identity objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.