Patent ID: 6374335
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An updating method for coupling a supplementary automation system to an overall automation system, the supplementary automation system including a first memory, comprising:controlling by the overall automation system and without interruption, an industrial operation, the overall automation system including a basic automation system, the basic automation system including a second memory; continuously modifying contents of the second memory as a function of the uninterrupted control of the industrial operation; reading first data section-by-section from the second memory; when the first data is read from the second memory, writing the first data to a buffer memory; writing second data to the second memory; when the second data is written to the second memory, writing the second data and position information to the buffer memory, and transferring contents of the second memory to the supplementary automation system via a communication arrangement, wherein the first memory and the second memory are divided into segments, wherein the writing second data to the second memory includes writing the second data to a first segment of the second memory segments, and wherein the transferring includes transferring entire contents of the first segment of the second memory to the supplementary automation system, and wherein the transferred entire contents of the first segment of the second memory is written to the first memory.