Patents Examined by John J. B. Backenstose
  • Distributing a real-time control program to a plurality of input/output nodes
    Patent number: 5297257
    Abstract: A method for a distributed processing system which includes the steps of developing a control program for controlling outputs at a plurality of I/O nodes, distributing executable portions of the program to the I/O nodes through a network, broadcasting input status data from the I/O nodes on the network and controlling the outputs at the I/O nodes in response to the input status data broadcast on the network and the executable portions of the program residing at the I/O nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Odo J. Struger, Ernst Dummermuth