Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen object information observed on computer network and observation display system using computer network

• US 20030020751A1
• Filed: 07/03/2002
• Published: 01/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Safa, Laurent, Fujiwara, Noriaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,225,252 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed as observation object on a computer network which is specified by a push request and an observation display system using a computer network. In the present method and system, at a communication terminal for monitor, observation display information in which an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is included is in advance prepared then the object information is specified by transmitting push request to a communication terminal for observation, while at a communication terminal for observation, the object information specified by the push request is observed then an event response notice, a reply about a change in the object information, is transmitted to the communication terminal for monitor every when an event occurs in conjunction with the object information specified by the push request and the object information is changed thereby.

Claims

1. An observation display method for dynamically changing on an observation monitor screen object information to be observed on a computer network as an object symbol or image, comprising:

at a communication terminal for monitor provided on said computer network,

preparing observation display information to be displayed on said observation monitor screen in which said object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is included; and

accessing a communication terminal for observation to transmit and preset a predetermined push request thereto, based on connection setting information in which a communication address of said communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and object information to be observed are at least specified thereby, said push request requiring to access said communication terminal for monitor and send thereto a reply about a change in said object information specified by said push request as an event response notice;

while, at a communication terminal for observation provided on said computer network,

observing said object information specified by said push request; and

accessing said communication terminal for monitor and transmitting said event response notice thereto, when an event occurs in conjunction with said object information specified by said push request and said object information is changed thereby;

whereby, at said communication terminal for monitor, said event response notice is decoded every when received from said communication terminal for observation, so that said object symbol or image related to said object information specified by said push request and displayed on said observation monitor screen is dynamically changed depending on said change in said object information specified by said push request.

2. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein said communication terminal stores, as an executable program, a web browser with the function of web browsing display and with an expanded function of dynamically changing said object symbol or image included in said observation display information and a user interface for transmitting to preset said push request and for decoding said event response notice replied from said communication terminal for observation in cooperation with said web browser, and wherein said object symbol or image related to said object information specified by said push request and displayed on said observation monitor screen is dynamically changed by cooperative work with said web browser and said user interface.

3. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein said communication terminal for monitor stores, as an executable program tool, an object symbol or image designing tool for selecting, preparing and arranging a desired object symbol or image for said object information to be observed, to generate and edit said observation display information.

4. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein said connection setting information is registered in advance in a web server on said computer network, and wherein said communication terminal for monitor retrieves said connection setting information from said web server via said network and transfers it to said user interface and in reply to this, said user interface transmits to preset said push request to said communication terminal for observation based on said communication setting information.

5. An observation display system using computer network in which a communication terminal for monitor and a communication terminal for observation are provided on said computer network, wherein said communication terminal for monitor comprises:

an observation monitor screen on which observation display information including said object symbol or image prepared in advance corresponding to object information to be observed is displayed;

a function of transmitting to preset a predetermined push request thereto based on a connection setting information at least specifying a communication address of the communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and said object information to be observed, said push request requiring to access said communication terminal for monitor and to transmit thereto a reply about a change in said object information specified by said push request as an event response, when said event occurs in conjunction with said object information and said object information is changed thereby, and wherein

said communication terminal for observation comprises a function of determining whether or not said event has occurred in conjunction with said object information specified by said push request and further a function of accessing said communication terminal for monitor and transmitting reply about change in said object information as an event response notice when said event occurs in conjunction with said object information, whereby, at said communication terminal for monitor, said event response notice is decoded every when received, so that said object symbol or image related to said object information specified by said push request and displayed on said observation monitor screen is dynamically changed depending on said change in said object information specified by said push request.

6. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein said communication terminal for monitor comprises as an executable program, a web browser with the function of web browsing display and with an expanded function of dynamically changing said object symbol or image included in said observation display information and a user interface for transmitting to preset said push request and for decoding an event response notice replied from said communication terminal in cooperation with said web browser, whereby said object symbol or image related to said object information specified by said push request and displayed on said monitor screen is dynamically changed depending on said event response notice from said communication terminal for observation by cooperative work with said web browser and said user interface.

7. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein said communication terminal for monitor comprises as an executable program, an object symbol or image designing tool, by which a desired object symbol or image for said object information to be observed are selected or generated as well as other parts so as to produce said observation display information.

8. The observation display system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein said communication terminal for monitor observes plural control points as object information to be observed, and wherein said communication terminal for monitor is such gateway device as to enable to be logged in when a specified identification code is inputted thereto via a computer network.

9. The observation display system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein said object designing tool is in advance stored in said communication terminal for observation, and wherein said tool is enable to be down loaded when a specified identification code is inputted from said communication terminal for monitor.

10. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein said connection setting information is registered in advance in a web server on said computer network, and wherein said communication terminal for monitor retrieves said connection setting information from said web server via said network and transfers it to said user interface, in reply to this said user interface transmits to preset said push request to said communication terminal for observation.

11. A program for executing observation display stored in a memory of a communication terminal provided on a computer network in the form of computer readable signal,

wherein a program executed within a communication terminal for monitor comprises:

a program step of preparing in advance an object symbol or image to be displayed on a observation monitor screen which is related to object information to be observed,

a program step of accessing a communication terminal for observation to preset push request thereto based on connection setting information which specifies at least a communication address of the communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and said object to be observed, said push request requiring to be accessed said communication terminal for monitor and to transmit thereto a reply about a change in said object information specified by the push request as an event response,

a program step of decoding said event response notice every when said event response notice is received from said communication terminal for observation, and

a program step of dynamically changing said object symbol or image depending on said event response notice, and

wherein a program executed within a communication terminal for observation comprises;

a program step of observing said object information to be observed, specified by said push request, and

a program of accessing said communication terminal for monitor to transmit said event response notice when an even occurs in conjunction with said object information.

12. The program according to claim 11, wherein said program is incorporated into said communication terminal for monitor as a user interface and is executed in cooperation with web browser with expanded function of dynamically changing said object symbol or image displayed on said observation monitor screen and with function of browsing display, and wherein said program comprises at least the step of dynamically changing an object symbol or image related to said object information to be observed in response to said event response notice.