Patents by Inventor Dieter Klotz

Dieter Klotz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10554545
    Abstract: In a method for data transmission in a communications network, data frames containing metadata and payloads are transmitted via point-to-point connections between a respective transmitter and a receiver according to a communications protocol. For each point-to-point connection, a transmission list of the data frames to be transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver is kept. In addition, a priority set of at least three interrupt priorities of pairs with differing significance is provided, and the communications protocol permits each data frame of a transmission list to be assigned an interrupt priority and to interrupt a current transmission of a data frame of the transmission list in order to transfer a data frame that is contained in the transmission list and that has been assigned a higher interrupt priority than the currently transferred data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz
  • Patent number: 10313268
    Abstract: A method for the prioritization of real-time telegrams in a convergent network, in particular in an industrial network and/or a “time-sensitive network” (TSN), wherein the convergent network has a central distribution infrastructure and a decentralized distribution infrastructure, and within the convergent network a service sends and/or receives real-time telegrams, and wherein the convergent network has a switching node forming a central network node for connection of central distribution infrastructure and decentralized distribution infrastructure, and which has a coupling port via which the switching node is connected to the decentralized distribution infrastructure, wherein the switching node has central network ports via which the switching node is integrated into the central distribution infrastructure, where real-time telegrams received at central network ports of the switching nodes are assigned a higher priority level than the real-time telegrams received at the coupling ports so as to provide effici
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz
  • Publication number: 20180041432
    Abstract: In a method for data transmission in a communications network, data frames containing metadata and payloads are transmitted via point-to-point connections between a respective transmitter and a receiver according to a communications protocol. For each point-to-point connection, a transmission list of the data frames to be transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver is kept. In addition, a priority set of at least three interrupt priorities of pairs with differing significance is provided, and the communications protocol permits each data frame of a transmission list to be assigned an interrupt priority and to interrupt a current transmission of a data frame of the transmission list in order to transfer a data frame that is contained in the transmission list and that has been assigned a higher interrupt priority than the currently transferred data frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: FRANZ-JOSEF GÖETZ, DIETER KLOTZ
  • Patent number: 9673995
    Abstract: For redundant message transmission in an industrial communication network having an arbitrarily meshed network topology, mutually independent paths are ascertained for a communication link that is redundant at least in sections between two network nodes within the industrial communication network, where the mutually independent paths comprise separate network nodes of a single communication network, and messages with duplicate identifiers are interchanged between transmission and reception units of communication devices of the industrial communication network in accordance with forwarding rules that correspond to the ascertained paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Angst, Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Joachim Lohmeyer, Matthias Scheffel
  • Publication number: 20160127268
    Abstract: A method for the prioritization of real-time telegrams in a convergent network, in particular in an industrial network and/or a “time-sensitive network” (TSN), wherein the convergent network has a central distribution infrastructure and a decentralized distribution infrastructure, and within the convergent network a service sends and/or receives real-time telegrams, and wherein the convergent network has a switching node forming a central network node for connection of central distribution infrastructure and decentralized distribution infrastructure, and which has a coupling port via which the switching node is connected to the decentralized distribution infrastructure, wherein the switching node has central network ports via which the switching node is integrated into the central distribution infrastructure, where real-time telegrams received at central network ports of the switching nodes are assigned a higher priority level than the real-time telegrams received at the coupling ports so as to provide effici
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Franz-Josef GÖTZ, Dieter KLOTZ
  • Publication number: 20150049639
    Abstract: For redundant message transmission in an industrial communication network having an arbitrarily meshed network topology, mutually independent paths are ascertained for a communication link that is redundant at least in sections between two network nodes within the industrial communication network, where the mutually independent paths comprise separate network nodes of a single communication network, and messages with duplicate identifiers are interchanged between transmission and reception units of communication devices of the industrial communication network in accordance with forwarding rules that correspond to the ascertained paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Hermann Angst, Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Joachim Lohmeyer, Matthias Scheffel
  • Patent number: 8880641
    Abstract: A method for redundant communication in a communication system having a plurality of communication networks connected to one another by at least one node, wherein data that originates from a first communication network is prevented from being transmitted back from the second the communication network into the first communication network as a result of information that is predefined before the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Joachim Lohmeyer
  • Patent number: 8127195
    Abstract: A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device for storing the data of the first data telegram and an assigned timer value, a device for receiving a second data telegram and a device for replacing the stored data of the first data telegram, wherein the stored data of the first data telegram is replaced with data of the second data telegram. Further, a method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Publication number: 20120030310
    Abstract: A method for redundant communication in a communication system having a plurality of communication networks connected to one another by at least one node, wherein data that originates from a first communication network is prevented from being transmitted back from the second the communication network into the first communication network as a result of information that is predefined before the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Joachim Lohmeyer
  • Patent number: 8015324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for data transmission in a serial bus system comprising a control unit and bus users. The method comprises steps: receiving a first data telegram by a bus user from the control unit, wherein the data telegram has a data field containing output data; reading out the data field intended for the bus user from the first data telegram; preparing input data as a response to the read out data field; checking whether a predefined criterion is met, wherein if the criterion is met a second data telegram is newly generated and the input data is attached to the second data telegram and if the criterion is not met, the input data is attached to a data telegram previously received from another bus user; and transmitting the input data to the control unit by the second data telegram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Klotz, Albert Tretter
  • Patent number: 7916738
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switching node comprising a dynamic address table in a data network, in addition to a method for creating a dynamic address table of this type for a switching node. The method comprises the following steps: receipt of a first data message with a source address at a port of the switching node; entry of the source address, details of the port and a counter initial value in a line of the address table that is assigned to the source address as the target address, whereby the current counter value indicates the validity of the entry and the current counter value is modified, if a second data message with the source address as the target address is received and the entry is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7900115
    Abstract: A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device for storing the data of the first data telegram and an assigned timer value, a device for receiving a second data telegram and a device for replacing the stored data of the first data telegram, wherein the stored data of the first data telegram is replaced with data of the second data telegram. Further, a method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Publication number: 20110022914
    Abstract: A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device for storing the data of the first data telegram and an assigned timer value, a device for receiving a second data telegram and a device for replacing the stored data of the first data telegram, wherein the stored data of the first data telegram is replaced with data of the second data telegram. Further, a method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7852879
    Abstract: A method for transmitting real time data packets in a cyclic communication system, each transmission cycle having a first partial cycle (IRT-Z) for a real time communication portion and a second partial cycle (NRT-Z) for a non-real-time communication portion. The method includes determination (118) of a cycle number and processing of a transmission sequence of real time data packets in the first partial cycle. The transmission sequence is composed of one or more partial sequences (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), and the composition depends on the cycle number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann Arnold, Herbert Bernecker, Dieter Brueckner, Franz-Josef Goetz, Dieter Klotz, Juergen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7839877
    Abstract: A method is specified for the operation of an automation device provided for the receiving of telegrams together with such an automation device, which is distinguished by the fact that the automation device manages a resource pool for telegrams which are arriving or received, that the automation device distinguishes between active and new communication relationships with a remote communication participant and that for each new communication relationship a free resource is selected from the resource pool and thereafter is used for this communication relationship, which thereby becomes an active communication relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Diesch, Dieter Klotz, Patrik Sieberling, Wolfgang Werner
  • Patent number: 7818463
    Abstract: A processing of consistent data sets by asynchronous application of a subscriber in an isochronous, cyclical communication system is provided. Accordingly, by connecting a communication memory and a consistency, transmission and reception buffer, copying processes leading delay can be kept to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz
  • Publication number: 20100229063
    Abstract: A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device for storing the data of the first data telegram and an assigned timer value, a device for receiving a second data telegram and a device for replacing the stored data of the first data telegram, wherein the stored data of the first data telegram is replaced with data of the second data telegram. Further, a method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7770085
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting real time-critical data using data messages in a data network. The data messages have an identification, useful data and a transfer status. According to the inventive method, data messages comprising errors are replaced by replacement messages that have the same structure as the data messages. The replacement message has the same identification as the data message to be replaced and is thus forwarded via the switching node, which would have been used to route the error-free data message. The replacement message can contain details of the type of transmission error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7701933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting a data telegram from a non-real-time domain to a real-time domain, comprising the following steps: generation of a non-real-time data telegram comprising a useful data zone, the data telegram containing a real-time or a non-real-time identifier in addition to a data telegram identifier (identifier i) in the useful data zone thereof when the real time identifier is provided; monitoring of the non-real-time data telegram for the presence of a real time identifier by the coupling unit if the real-time identifier is provided; transmission of the useful data and real-time identifier (identifier i) from the useful data zone of the non-real-time data telegram to a user interface of the coupling node; storage of the useful data in a storage zone of a communication memory which is associated with the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brückner, Franz-Josef Götz, Dieter Klotz, Jürgen Schimmer
  • Patent number: 7656865
    Abstract: A method for the transmission of data messages in a switched cyclical communication system (38, 39) with a linear or ring arrangement of the users. Real-time critical data messages are transmitted in a first segment (20) of a transmission cycle (31), without the need to first plan the send and receive instants in the forwarding users, such that the chronological start (21) of the first segment (20) of a transmission cycle (31) is guaranteed by all users in all transmission cycles through monitoring. The duration of the first segment (20) of a transmission cycle (31) can be fixedly specified or automatically adjusted using a timeout procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Brueckner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Karl Weber