Distributing a real-time control program to a plurality of input/output nodes
US5297257A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 15, 1991 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 15, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/13167
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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.
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