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

Claim 14:
15. A system, comprising:
a memory that stores executable components; and
a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising a user interface component that:
graphically displays a user interface comprising selectable options to import data and to commission one or more devices;
receives a selection via the user interface to import network Identifiers (IDs);
in response to receiving the selection:
imports a set of available network IDs from memory,
generates an ordered list of the set of available network IDs, and

displays the ordered list of the set of available network IDs in the user interface;
receives a second selection via the user interface to commission the one or more devices;
in response to the second selection, displays a prompt in the user interface to sequentially initialize the one or more devices;
receives, 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, identifies afirst device ID for afirst device of the one or more devices and correlates 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 displays the first network ID for the first device in the prompt;
receives, via the prompt, an assignment command to assign the first network ID to the first device;
in response to receiving the assignment command, loads the first network ID onto the first device;
updates 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, identifies a second device ID for a second device of the one or more devices and correlates 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;
updates the prompt to graphically display the second network ID for the second device;
receives, 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, loads the second network ID onto the second device; and
updates the ordered list of the set of available network IDs to incorporate the second device ID in association with the second network ID.