Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070255832
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The method involves connecting the device to a port of a switch, transmitting an identity of the port from the switch to the device using a neighborhood detection protocol, transmitting the identifier of the port from the device to an address server and allocating the Internet Protocol address to the device based on the identity of the port. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | US 2005/0163118 A1 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - Patent Appl. Publ. within the ... - A1 |
| Patentee Name | Siemens |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | Paragraph 0013 |
| URL | |
| Filing Date | July 28, 2005 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt [0013]
This is particularly advantageous for applications in automation engineering, in particular for Industrial Ethernet and Realtime Ethernet. In particular, the invention allows efficient network management of Ethernet applications in the industrial sector, where said applications often feature a great number of nodes.
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Claims
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A method for automatically configuring a local network in a windfarm, comprising the steps of
(a) automatically assigning an IP address to a device connected to said local windfarm network,
(b) automatically receiving an identifier tag from said device, and
(c) relating the automatically assigned IP address of the device to a specific wind turbine in the windfarm which is identified by said identifier tag.
Relevance
Inventive step:
Claim 1 differs from the cited prior art solely by non-functional descriptive material (in a windfarm). Since it is rather unrelevant if the network is used in a windfarm or not, and no wind turbine related problems are to challenge within this application, there is no proper reason for granting this application. All means are known to public, and the usage of a common network design in a new technical field is just to be seen as inventive, if new problems related to the new usage are solved.
I.e.: In paragraph 0013 of the prior art it is quoted, that the application of the technique to a known and huge industrial Ethernet LANs is quite advantagous. A windfarm can be seen as such a big industrial LAN. This specification - to use the content of the prior art in a windfarm network - is obvious for a person skilled in the art.
Even paragrah 0013 in the present application says: " ... over the network so that the IP address of a component connected to the network is unambiguously associated with a specified wind turbine of the windfarm by ..."
I want to put the focus on the expression "component connected to the network": This shows that there is just a COMPONENT - which is a computer - connected to the network, and it's irrelevant wether there is a wind turbine or a refrigerator connected to said component.
Inventive step:
Claim 1 differs from the cited prior art solely by non-functional descriptive material (in a windfarm). Since it is rather unrelevant if the network is used in a windfarm or not, and no wind turbine related problems are to challenge within this application, there is no proper reason for granting this application. All means are known to public, and the usage of a common network design in a new technical field is just to be seen as inventive, if new problems related to the new usage are solved.
I.e.: In paragraph 0013 of the prior art it is quoted, that the application of the technique to a known and huge industrial Ethernet LANs is quite advantagous. A windfarm can be seen as such a big industrial LAN. This specification - to use the content of the prior art in a windfarm network - is obvious for a person skilled in the art.
Even paragrah 0013 in the present application says: " ... over the network so that the IP address of a component connected to the network is unambiguously associated with a specified wind turbine of the windfarm by ..."
I want to put the focus on the expression "component connected to the network": This shows that there is just a COMPONENT - which is a computer - connected to the network, and it's irrelevant wether there is a wind turbine or a refrigerator connected to said component.
Claim Chart
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A method for automatic setup of a local network in a windfarm, comprising the steps of
(a) automatically allocating IP addresses to a plurality of devices connected to said local windfarm network,
(b) automatically discovering a topology of said local windfarm network,
(c) automatically identifying at least one wind turbine subnetwork,
(d) receiving an identifier tag for said at least one wind turbine subnetwork, and
(e) relating the automatically allocated IP addresses of the devices comprised in that at least one wind turbine subnetwork to the wind turbine identified by said identifier tag.
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Inventive step:
Since d) and e) is almost identical to claim 1, a), b), c) is considerd to be inventive.
Inventive step:
Since d) and e) is almost identical to claim 1, a), b), c) is considerd to be inventive.
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