Patent ID: 11882043
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing time-critical services via a flow control environment, at least one server component being assigned to each respective service, said server component being formed by a flow control component loadable into and executable in the flow control environment, the method comprising:
determining, by a configuration unit for at least one gateway component of a subnetwork comprising the flow control environment, globally valid access information assigned to addressing information of each server component which is valid within the subnetwork, at least one gateway component connected in parallel and/or in series being used based on an operating mode predefined via the configuration unit, the at least one gateway component comprising a load balancer and/or a reverse proxy, and a number and a connection of load balancers or reverse proxies being predefined by the operating mode;
transmitting, by the configuration unit, forwarding and/or filter rules which map the access information to the at least one gateway component;
providing, by an aggregator component, accessibility of the globally valid access information available for use of the services outside the subnetwork; and
forwarding, by the at least one gateway component, service access requests to the server component in accordance with the forwarding or filter rules and the operating mode;
wherein a plurality of mutually redundant aggregator components are used.