US 12,088,554 B2
Coordinating maintenance management operations via a secure deployment system
David C. Mazur, Mequon, WI (US); Rob A. Entzminger, Shawnee, KS (US); Jonathan Alan Mills, Mayfield Heights, OH (US); Nathaniel S. Sandler, Chagrin Falls, OH (US); and Todd A. Wiese, Hubertus, WI (US)
Assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US)
Filed by Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/107,006.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/425,117, filed on Nov. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0163249 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0209 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1425 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, via a secure deployment management (SDM) system, data associated with one or more operations of an industrial device from a secure deployment management (SDM) node associated with the industrial device, wherein the SMD node is preregistered with the SDM system and comprises circuitry integrated within the industrial device, and wherein the data is received via a secure communication channel between the SDM system and the SDM node after the secure communication channel is established by the SDM system with the SDM node and one or more security protocols; and
sending, via the SDM system, the data to a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) container component configured to:
perform one or more tasks in conjunction with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) process, wherein the CMMS container component is configured to communicate with the CMMS process via a first firewall through which the SDM system is incapable of communicating, wherein the CMMS process is configured to receive the data without performing one or more security operations on the data, and the SDM system is configured to enable the data associated with the one or more operations of the industrial device to communicate with the SDM node through a second firewall between the SDM system and the SDM node based on the SDM node being preregistered with the SDM system, the second firewall being different from the first firewall.