Patent Document ID: 7965664
Application ID: 11444200
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving first information from a wireless field device in a process control system, the first information associated with a wireless field device protocol; converting the first information associated with the wireless field device protocol into second information associated with a wired field device protocol; and communicating the second information over a network using the wired field device protocol; wherein, under the wireless field device protocol, an object is associated with the wireless field device and one or more objects are associated with one or more transducers of the wireless field device, each transducer associated with a process or output variable, each object comprising one or more parameters storing values describing the associated device or transducer; wherein the first information received from the wireless field device comprises a device address identifying the wireless field device, an object identifier identifying one of the objects associated with the identified wireless field device or with the one or more transducers of the wireless field device, and a parameter identifier identifying one of the parameters within the identified object; wherein the parameters describing the wireless field device comprise a vendor identifier, a model identifier, a device revision identifier, a software build identifier, and a device descriptor file revision identifier; and wherein the method further comprises: using the vendor identifier, the model identifier, the device revision identifier, and the software build identifier to identify firmware for the field device; and using the vendor identifier, the model identifier, the device revision identifier, and the device descriptor file revision identifier to identify a device descriptor file for the field device.