Conversion apparatus and communication method
AssigneeYokogawa Electric Corporation
InventorMorio HARA
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Abstract
A conversion apparatus that performs interconversion between wired communication and wireless communication, the conversion apparatus includes a selector, and a device that is connected to the selector, wherein the selector switches between a first path through which first data that is input to the device passes and a second path through which second data that is output from the device passes, and the device receives an internal process to be performed on the first data by way of the first path, and an external process to be performed on the second data by way of the second path.
Claims12
A conversion apparatus that performs interconversion between wired communication and wireless communication, the conversion apparatus comprising:
- a selector;
- and
- a device that is connected to the selector, wherein
- the selector switches between a first path through which first data that is input to the device passes and a second path through which second data that is output from the device passes, and
- the device receives
- an internal process to be performed on the first data by way of the first path, and
- an external process to be performed on the second data by way of the second path.
A communication method performed by a conversion apparatus that performs interconversion between wired communication and wireless communication and that includes a selector and a device that is connected to the selector, the communication method comprising:
- switching, performed by the selector, between a first path through which first data that is input to the device passes, and a second path through which second data that is output from the device passes;
- receiving, performed by the device, an internal process to be performed on the first data by way of the first path;
- and
- receiving, performed by the device, an external process to be performed on the second data by way of the second path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.