Patent ID: 11886171
Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising:
graphically displaying a user interface comprising selectable options to import data and to commission one or more devices;
receiving, via the user interface, a selection to import network Identifiers (IDs);
in response to receiving the selection:
importing a set of available network IDs from memory,
generating an ordered list of the set of available network IDs, and
displaying the ordered list of the set of available network IDs in the user interface;

receiving, via the user interface, a second selection to commission the one or more devices;
in response to the second selection, displaying a prompt in the user interface to sequentially initialize the one or more devices;
receiving, via the prompt, an initialization command to sequentially initialize the one or more devices by assigning a unique network ID from the set of available network IDs to each of the one or more devices;
in response to the initialization command, identifying a first device ID for a first device of the one or more devices and correlating the first device ID for the first device with a first network ID of the set of available network IDs based on the ordered list;
graphically displaying the first network ID for the first device in the prompt;
receiving, via the prompt, an assignment command to assign the first network ID to the first device;
in response to receiving the assignment command, loading the first network ID onto the first device;
updating the ordered list of the set of available network IDs to incorporate the first device ID in association with the first network ID;
in response to loading the first network ID, identifying a second device ID for a second device of the one or more devices and correlating the second device ID for the second device with a second network ID of the set of available network IDs based on the ordered list;
updating the prompt to graphically display the second network ID for the second device;
receiving, via the prompt, a subsequent assignment command to assign the second network ID to the second device;
in response to receiving the subsequent assignment command, loading the second network ID onto the second device; and
updating the ordered list of the set of available network IDs to incorporate the second device ID in association with the second network ID.