Split and merge sequence description

US8832642B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Heller · Eckental, DE
• Venkata Prasad Reddy Mukka · Plainsboro, US
• Oswin Noetzelmann · Monmouth Junction, US
• Prithvi Raju · Willingboro, US
• Dirk Schaumburg · Bad Nauheim, DE
• Edward Slavin, III · Lawrence, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 16, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B23/0216
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for splitting and merging runtime software for a programmable logic controller, wherein the runtime software is splittable between a plurality of programmable logic controllers. After the runtime software has been split, the runtime software of a programmable logic controller may be merged into the runtime software of a different programmable logic controller.