Fuel delivery management system

• US 10,336,602 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2016
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Franklin Fueling Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Franklin Fueling Systems LLC
• Inventors: Marston, Daniel H., Knapp, Andrew P., Nees, Jason A., Boucher, Randall S., Stetson, Barrett L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bautista, Xiomara L
• Application Number:
  US15/149,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20170096325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,149 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2007/0442 interface for orders and payments
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/02 for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/04 for transferring fuels, lubricants or mixed fuels and lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/06 Details or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/08 Arrangements of devices for controlling, indicating, metering or registering quantity or price of liquid transferred arrangement of flow- or pressure-control valves B67D7/36; computing, calculating, counting G06; coin-freed apparatus for dispensing fluids G07F13/00; prepayment devices for metering liquids G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units

Abstract

A console for a fuel delivery management system, including a processor, a touch-sensitive display, a plurality of ports configured to facilitate communications with a plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps, and a memory including a plurality of instructions which when executed by the processor cause the console to generate a home screen on the display, the home screen having a quick jump menu icon which when activated by a user, causes the processor to generate a navigation window on the home screen, the navigation window including a plurality of function icons, each corresponding to a function screen, wherein activation of one of the plurality of function icons causes the processor to generate a function screen including a graphic indication of a parameter of one of the plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps.

Claims

1. A fuel delivery management system, the system including:

a console having;

a processor;

a touch-sensitive display;

a plurality of ports configured to facilitate communications with a plurality of lines, tanks, and pumps; and

a memory that contains instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

generate a home screen on the touch-sensitive display, the home screen having a navigation menu icon that, when activated by a user, causes the processor to generate a navigation window that overlays a portion of the home screen,

wherein the navigation window includes a plurality of user-interface elements including a first user-interface element that, when activated by a user,

causes the processor to enable user configuration of a second user-interface element,

wherein, when activated by a user subsequent to the user configuration, the second user-interface element causes the processor to present, on the touch-sensitive display, a screen that corresponds to the second user-interface element,

wherein, in addition to the first user-interface element, the plurality of user-interface elements in the navigation window further includes at least one user-interface navigation element that, when activated by a user, causes the processor to present, on the touch-sensitive display, a screen that corresponds to the activated user-interface navigation element, wherein;

the at least one user-interface navigation element includes a first user-interface navigation element and a second user-interface navigation element,

the first user-interface navigation element, when activated by a user, causes the processor to present, on the touch-sensitive display, a screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element; and

the second user-interface navigation element, when activated by a user, causes the processor to present, on the touch-sensitive display, a screen that corresponds to the second user-interface navigation element, wherein the navigation menu icon is displayed;

 

in a first location on the home screen,

 

in the first location on the screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element, and

 

in the first location on the screen that corresponds to the second user-interface navigation element.

2. The fuel delivery management system of claim 1, wherein the screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element includes information regarding one of the plurality of lines, tanks, and pumps.

3. The fuel delivery management system of claim 1, wherein the home screen further includes a status window that includes system status information and is displayed in one of a plurality of different ways, each corresponding to a different system status.

4. The fuel delivery management system of claim 3, wherein the status window being activated by a user causes the processor to display an alarm screen.

5. The fuel delivery management system of claim 4, wherein the alarm screen includes a hint field that provides information about an active alarm and recommendations for addressing the alarm.

6. The fuel delivery management system of claim 3, wherein the status region is displayed:

in a second location on the home screen,

in the second location on the screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element, and

in the second location on the screen that corresponds to the second user-interface navigation element.

7. The fuel delivery management system of claim 1, wherein the screen that corresponds to the second user-interface element has a home icon that, when activated by a user, causes the processor to re-present the home screen on the touch-sensitive display.

8. The fuel delivery management system of claim 1, wherein at least one of (i) the screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element and (ii) the screen that corresponds to the second user-interface navigation element has a home icon that, when activated by a user, causes the processor to re-present the home screen on the touch-sensitive display.

9. The fuel delivery management system of claim 8, wherein each of (i) the screen that corresponds to the first user-interface navigation element and (ii) the screen that corresponds to the second user-interface navigation element has such a home icon.

10. The fuel delivery management system of claim 1, wherein the set of screens that corresponds collectively to the at least one user-interface navigation element makes up a proper subset of a total set of screens of the console.