Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Special service
Reexamination Certificate
2004-12-10
2009-12-29
Afshar, Kamran (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Special service
C455S041200, C455S550100, C455S426100, C455S553100, C340S010100, C345S002100, C348S014020
Reexamination Certificate
active
07640007
ABSTRACT:
A handheld communicator wirelessly interfaces or communicates with individual devices in a process control system, such as field devices, controllers, etc., to wirelessly perform monitoring, maintenance, configuration and control activities with respect to those devices. The wireless handheld communicator includes a housing adapted for handheld operation, a processing unit disposed within the housing, a computer readable memory disposed within the housing and coupled to the processing unit and a display, a keypad and a radio frequency transceiver. The handheld communicator may be adapted to communicate with a host system to receive information needed to communicate with various field devices in the process plant and may then be used to wirelessly communicate with each of the various field devices directly while in close proximity to the field devices to perform monitoring and configuration activities with respect to the field devices. Thereafter, information obtained from the field devices may be wirelessly communicated to the host system or to a repository, such as a data historian or a configuration database.
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Burr Kent A.
Chen Deji
Nixon Mark J.
Peterson Neil J.
Afshar Kamran
Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc.
Marshall & Gerstein & Borun LLP
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