Method for displaying monitoring screen at a display location

• US 10,248,304 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2017
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Seung-Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US15/588,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20180150198A1
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32404 Scada supervisory control and data acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

The method for displaying a monitoring screen for a control program includes: providing a list of files of monitoring screens via a display unit; receiving a file of a monitoring screen to be displayed among the files of the list and a display location of the monitoring screen from a user; and executing the file of the monitoring screen input from the user to display the monitoring screen at the display location.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a monitoring screen, the method comprising:

providing a list of files of monitoring screens via a display unit;

receiving a file of a monitoring screen to be displayed among the files of the list and a display location of the monitoring screen from a user;

executing the file of the monitoring screen input from the user to display the monitoring screen at the display location;

displaying a viewport at the display location if no viewport is displayed at the display location and displaying the monitoring screen on the viewport; and

determining whether the monitoring screen is able to be displayed at the display location input from the user, and providing a notification message to the user if another program is running at the display location, the notification message indicating that the monitoring screen cannot be displayed,

wherein the receiving comprises receiving the file of the monitoring screen to be displayed and the display location of the monitoring screen by drag-and-drop.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the monitoring screen on the viewport if a viewport is displayed at the display location.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a predetermined monitoring screen via the display unit upon the user'"'"'s request, prior to the providing.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined monitoring screen is a most recently displayed monitoring screen or a most frequently displayed monitoring screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing comprises interrupting displaying a monitoring screen on the viewport displayed at the display location to display the monitoring screen to be displayed.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

searching the files of the list for the file of the monitoring screen to be displayed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the display location is an arbitrary position included in a screen displayed via one or more monitoring devices.