Patent ID: 11960270
Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method in an industrial process plant, the method comprising:
during run-time operations of the industrial process plant:
balancing a load of a virtualization platform across a plurality of virtual nodes implemented on the virtualization platform based on one or more configured boundary conditions,
each virtual node of the plurality of virtual nodes including a respective at least one component behavior module that operates on content of respective first data via a respective one or more subscriptions to generate respective second data and that publishes the respective second data for delivery to a respective other process control component to thereby control a respective at least a portion of an industrial process,
a physical field device operating in a field environment of the industrial process plant at least one of: generates at least a portion of the respective first data subscribed to by a particular virtual node of the plurality of virtual nodes, or is the respective other process control component corresponding to the particular virtual node, and
the balancing of the load of the virtualization platform includes re-assigning an input/output (I/O) assignment from a first virtual node to a second virtual node, the I/O assignment indicating an association between a respective virtual node and a respective logical identifier that is indicative of data, a set or grouping of data, and/or a data type that is utilized within the industrial process plant and that is subscribed to and/or published by the respective virtual node; and

re-balancing the load of the virtualization platform responsive to a change to the one or more configured boundary conditions.