US 12,261,913 B2
Façade server
Roland Braun, Niederkassel (DE); Thomas Gamer, Brühl (DE); Ralf Jeske, Petershagen (DE); Anders Trosten, Västerås (SE); Jeff Harding, Fort Myers, FL (US); Mario Hoernicke, Landau (DE); and Sten Gruener, Laudenbach (DE)
Assigned to ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed by ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,481.
Claims priority of application No. 21195756 (EP), filed on Sep. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0075818 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/70 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01); H04L 67/125 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/125 (2013.01) [G06F 12/10 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A façade server comprised to provide:
a configurable façade having a configurable address space and serving as an interface for a client, and
a mapping between the configurable address space of the façade and a data space and/or an address space of an external server, wherein the configurable address space is built using one or more data models included in one or more nodeset files, wherein the configurable address space comprises a first set of nodes indicating instances, wherein a second set of nodes indicates type definitions, wherein the one or more data models have been configured by the client, wherein the façade or each of the façades is configurable utilizing the one or more nodeset files, and wherein configuring the façade or each of the façades by means of the one or more nodeset files comprises implementing the one or more data models to obtain the address space of the façade, wherein the address space is defined by the one or more nodeset files.