Data table structure for self-organized management of communication with functional modules coupled via backplane assembly based on received module description including control logic

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9304963-B2
Application number	US-201113007314-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 14, 2011
Priority date	Jan 14, 2011
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods self-organize a multifunctional power and energy control and management system by integrating multiple backplane based modules through module descriptions, the module descriptions including control logic and parameters associated with the modules. Dynamic data table structures may be configured based on information provides with the module descriptions and provide for improved data accessing, storing, and updating.

First claim

We claim:

1. A system comprising:
a backplane assembly;
at least one functional module coupled directly to the backplane assembly to receive process related data, the at least one functional module including a unique functional module description, the functional module description including control logic for controlling the at least one functional module and parameters associated with the functional module; and
a primary module coupled directly to the backplane assembly, the primary module including a description parser to receive the at least one functional module description through the backplane assembly, and interpret the at least one functional module description and to dynamically create a data table structure associated with the at least one functional module, the dynamically created data table structure including at least one parameter and the control logic associated with the functional module, and the dynamically created data table structure configured to manage a plurality of data received from and transmitted to the at least one functional module based on the at least one parameter and the control logic.

2. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the data table structure includes a consecutive memory value pool adapted for data accessing and uploading.

3. The system according to claim 1 :
further including a power supply module, the power supply module coupled to the backplane assembly and adapted to provide power across the backplane to each module coupled to the backplane assembly.

4. The system according to claim 1 :
the primary module further including a logic engine adapted to operate on data in the data table structure.

5. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the system comprises a power and energy control and management system.

6. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the process related data includes energy related data.

7. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the data table structure includes at least one external data table corresponding to the at least one functional module.

8. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the functional module description includes information about data structures, including information about internal data table parameters and external data table parameters.

9. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the at least one functional module is configured to manage its communications to and from the backplane assembly.

10. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the data table structure includes at least one internal data table corresponding to the at least one functional module.

11. The system according to claim 10 :
wherein the at least one functional module further includes at least one internal data table that corresponds to the at least one internal data table in the data table structure.

12. The system according to claim 7 :
wherein the primary module uses the at least one external data table to exchange data with at least one device that is not coupled to the backplane assembly.

13. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the description parser is further adapted to create a parameter list based on the unique module description of the functional module.

14. The system according to claim 13 :
the primary module further including control logic, and wherein parameters in the parameter list are adapted to be used as inputs to the control logic.

15. The system according to claim 1 :
further including additional functional modules, the functional module adapted to exchange data with the additional functional modules without intervention from the primary module.

16. The system according to claim 15 :
wherein when a real-time data is received at the functional module, the real-time data is time-stamped by a time protocol so the time-stamped real-time data can be correlated in time with time-stamped real-time data from the additional functional modules.

17. The system according to claim 1 :
wherein the description parser is configured to receive and interpret the at least one functional module description upon self-organization of the system, wherein the system is configured to:
i) send the module description across a backplane assembly to a primary module;
ii) use the description parser to dynamically create the data table structures based on the module description; and
iii) establish an I/O connection between the primary module and the functional module.

Assignees

• Xiao Xuyyan
• Delker Mark E
• Tang Benfeng
• Chen Chao
• Lombardi Steven A
• Berman David
• Rockwell Automation Tech Inc

Inventors

• Xiao Xuyyan
• Delker Mark E
• Tang Benfeng
• Chen Chao
• Lombardi Steven A
• Berman David

Classifications

• H02J13/14

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• H02J13/12 Primary

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• G05B2219/25009

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• G05B19/0426

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• G05B2219/25093

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