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Industrial controller automation interface

  • US 10,203,679 B2
  • Filed: 05/31/2016
  • Issued: 02/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automation interface device comprising at least one processor, nonvolatile storage and a network adapter, the nonvolatile storage including a compiled executable file that is exposed to an application executed by the at least one processor, the compiled executable file including an automation interface comprising:

  • an object tree associated therewith specifying at least an exposed program file object and an exposed control process data object,a library of semantically related functions providing access to the exposed program file object and control process data object,a set of object classes specifying, for at least a class of exposed control process data objects, a set of one or more allowable and programmatically accessible monitoring and storage methods, andwherein the automation interface is exposed to both an application executed by a remote processor on an industrial controller in communication with the automation interface device over a first network via the network adapter and a web service operating on a web server in communication with the automation interface device over a second network via the network adapter, wherein the automation interface device, the industrial controller, and the web server are separate devices.

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