Patents by Inventor Karl Büttner
Karl Büttner 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).
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Patent number: 11916695Abstract: A field device of automation technology having a function for checking quality of a network connection includes an operating electronics and at least one communication interface for connecting to a communication network having one or more network participants and for building a communication connection, wherein a communication stack and a PHY are associated with the communication interface, wherein the communication stack and the PHY are embodied continually to gain and to store communication information regarding the communication connection, wherein the operating electronics is embodied to read out communication information from the communication stack and from the PHY, and by means of an algorithm to subject the communication information to computation and based on the result of the computation to classify a communication state.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AGInventors: Karl Büttner, Axel Eidmann, Benedikt Spielmann, Benjamin Schaupp, Martin Lohmann, Oliver Zwick, Harald Freimark
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Publication number: 20230315417Abstract: An automation technology field device includes operating electronics and a plurality of parameters. The operating electronics are designed to operate the field device based on the parameters and obtain and process data based on the parameters. A firmware is a software container allocated to the operating electronics. The software container is designed to execute the installed code to establish, using the code, a communication connection to a distributed ledger via at least one of the outputs is a higher-level communication network, to integrate the field device in the distributed ledger-and to process and/or combine at least one part of the obtained and processed data into result data and to transmit the result data to the distributed ledger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Sushil Siddesh, Johannes Sprenger, Jenish Gheewala, Matthias Brenzinger, Karl Büttner
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Publication number: 20230208674Abstract: A field device of automation technology having a function for checking quality of a network connection includes an operating electronics and at least one communication interface for connecting to a communication network having one or more network participants and for building a communication connection, wherein a communication stack and a PHY are associated with the communication interface, wherein the communication stack and the PHY are embodied continually to gain and to store communication information regarding the communication connection, wherein the operating electronics is embodied to read out communication information from the communication stack and from the PHY, and by means of an algorithm to subject the communication information to computation and based on the result of the computation to classify a communication state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Karl Büttner, Axel Eidmann, Benedikt Spielmann, Benjamin Schaupp, Martin Lohmann, Oliver Zwick, Harald Freimark
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Patent number: 11550298Abstract: The present disclosure relates to automation technology. A first gateway is connected via a first communication network to a field device—and a second gateway is connected to the field device via a second communication network. The first and the second gateway are connected to a control unit. The first communication network and the second communication network are connected to a control room. The control room switches over to the other communication network and establishes a communication connection therewith if a problem is detected in the previous communication connection. Communication access to the first gateway is implemented in the control unit, and communication access to the second gateway is implemented in the control unit via a second driver. The control unit continuously analyses the first communication network and the second communication network and in the event of a control room switchover, switches over to the gateway of that network.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AGInventors: Michael Mayer, Michael Maneval, Karl Büttner, Dirk Hamann
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Publication number: 20220206452Abstract: A device for the extraction of user data out of Ethernet telegrams sent from a field device comprises an input interface and an output interface for connecting to an Ethernet data line, wherein the input interface is designed to receive Ethernet telegrams transmitted via the Ethernet data line; an electronics unit which is designed to evaluate the received Ethernet telegrams and to extract a value of at least one process variable out of the user data portions of the received Ethernet telegrams; and an output unit for outputting the determined process variables. The invention also relates to a system comprising the device according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Karl Büttner, Olivier Wolff, Oliver Zwick, Bastian Engel, Stefan Maier, Martin Lohmann, Michael Bückel, Mirko Brcic
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Publication number: 20200326686Abstract: The present disclosure relates to automation technology. A first gateway is connected via a first communication network to a field device—and a second gateway is connected to the field device via a second communication network. The first and the second gateway are connected to a control unit. The first communication network and the second communication network are connected to a control room. The control room switches over to the other communication network and establishes a communication connection therewith if a problem is detected in the previous communication connection. Communication access to the first gateway is implemented in the control unit, and communication access to the second gateway is implemented in the control unit via a second driver. The control unit continuously analyses the first communication network and the second communication network and in the event of a control room switchover, switches over to the gateway of that network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Michael Mayer, Michael Maneval, Karl Büttner, Dirk Hamann
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Patent number: 8677249Abstract: A system for providing a graphical interface to a user includes a server platform and an operating system and application software running thereon. The system includes a client device capable of running a standard web browser that accesses the software application on the server platform for displaying information to the user in a display area on the client device. The web browser displays the information without requiring additional software to be installed, downloaded or run on the client device, and without requiring a scripting language to be enabled in the web browser on the client. The application software facilitates user manipulation of unstructured data in the display area for detailed inspection, and facilitates the user selectively causing to display annotations within the display area. The application software facilitates the user inserting annotations within the display area, thereby causing an action to occur in this system or an external system.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Kofax, Inc.Inventors: Karl Büttner, Erich E. Orenchuk, Rakesh Shukla
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Patent number: 7478332Abstract: A system for providing a graphical interface to a user includes a server platform and an operating system and application software running thereon. The system further includes a client device capable of running a standard web browser that accesses the software application on the server platform for displaying information to the user in a display area on the client device. The standard web browser displays the information without requiring additional software to be installed or downloaded or run on the client device, and without requiring a scripting language to be enabled in the web browser on the client device. The application software facilitates manipulation by the user of unstructured data in the display area for detailed inspection, and also facilitates the user selectively causing to display annotations within the display area.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: 170 Systems Inc.Inventors: Karl Büttner, Erich E. Orenchuk, Rakesh Shukla
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Patent number: 4206889Abstract: A device for unwinding elongated material from a coil which includes a plate which is placed on top of the coil, with the plate including a rotatable guide means for guiding unwound material, and at least two elongated arcuate members which extend into the coil interior and define a cylindrically shaped shell. The arcuate members are pivotally mounted to the plate, and are provided with a means which exerts a force against the arcuate members to press the arcuate members against the coil interior to hold the interior windings as the coil is unwound.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1979Date of Patent: June 10, 1980Assignee: Kabel-und Metallwerke Gutehoffnungshuette AGInventors: Georg Adelhardt, Karl Buettner, Walter Feichtner, Herbert Hasselberg, Andreas Voelkel