USO0RE40817E

(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent

(10) Patent Number:

Krivoshein et a]. (54)

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(45) Date of Reissued Patent:

PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM INCLUDING

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

AUTOMATIC SENSING AND AUTOMATIC

CONFIGURATION 0F DEVICES

Blackwell, The bene?ts won’t kickiin immediately

(Microsoft Windows 95 operating system’s multimedia ben

e?ts), Computing Canada, v21, n18, p. 36(2), Sep. 1995.

(75) Inventors: Ken D. Krivoshein, Elgin, TX (US); Dan D. Christensen, Austin, TX (US)

Baldasserini, Denmac delivers LAN stats (Denmac Systems

Inc’s TrenData 2.0), Computer Shopper, V15, n6, p.613(1), Jun. 1995.

(73) Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Austin: TX (Us)

(Continued) Primary Examineriwilbert L Starks, Jr. (74) Attorney, Agent, or FirmiMarshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

(21) Appl' NO': 10/037’019 (22) Filed: Nov. 9, 2001 Related US. Patent Documents

(57) ABSTRACT A digital control system with a predetermined con?guration

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Patent NOJ

5,980,078

automatically senses the connection to a network of a digital

NOV- 9, 1999 08/799,966 Feb- 14-1 1997

device that is not included in the predetermined con?gura tion. The di ital device is assi ned tern or address infor mation and placed in a temporary state, called a standby

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state, in which the digital device supplies information to the

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ration parameters. Using the device information and con ?guration parameters, a user Selectively Commissions the

digital device by assigning a physical device tag’ a device

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devlce 1nclud1ng access of devlce 1nformat1on and con?gu

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address, and a device identi?cation, and installing a control

strategy to the digital device, thereby placing the digital

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the overall control scheme of the digital control system.

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