Patent ID: 9450816
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A provisioning device comprising: a router advertisement transmitter that selects a field device to be provisioned among field devices located within a router advertisement zone of the provisioning device, the router advertisement transmitter generating a router advertisement frame that includes a router advertisement and a medium access control (MAC) sub-layer header that designates a starting point address, which is a transmission source of the router advertisement, and an ending point address, which is a transmission destination of the router advertisement, the router advertisement transmitter transmitting the router advertisement frame to the selected field device in a unicast mode using an address associated with network parameters of the selected field device as the ending point address of the router advertisement frame; a connection controller that controls a connection to a provisioning network of the field device that has received the router advertisement frame; and a parameter setter that performs setting of the network parameters of the field device that has received the router advertisement frame via the provisioning network so that the field device that has received the router advertisement frame can be connected to a target network that is separated from the provisioning network.