Patent ID: 8312178
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G05B,G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A field communications managing apparatus for handling configuration information necessary for communication between a field device and a communication device, the configuration information being a pair of information segments to be set in the field device and the communication device, respectively, said field communications managing apparatus comprising: a setting unit for setting both individual information segments of the pair of the information segments, in both the field device and the communication device, respectively; and a communication limiting unit for limiting communications by the field device for a period before the individual information segments are set in the field device and the communication device, respectively, by the setting unit, wherein the setting unit comprises: a difference extraction unit for extracting a difference between the information segment of the pair of the information segments, set in the communication device, and the information segment of the pair of the information segments, set in the field device; and a writing unit for writing information in the field device such that the difference extracted by the difference extraction unit is eliminated.