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Embedded system and method for controlling, monitoring of instruments or devices and processing their data via control and data protocols that can be combined or interchanged

  • US 20070124451A1
  • Filed: 11/17/2006
  • Published: 05/31/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer implemented method carried out by a computer system having an associated display screen and in operable communication with a network having one or more routers, each router in communication with one or more devices, the method comprising:

  • providing a user interface through which a user defines one or more device classes, and creates one or more device instances of the device classes, wherein each device instance represents a device configured to communicate with the computer system via the network;

    displaying a plurality of graphical device icons in an available devices display region, wherein each graphical device icon corresponds to one of the device instances;

    enabling a user using a user input device, to select one or more of the graphical device icons, drag the one or more selected graphical device icons into a process definition region, and drop the one or more selected graphical device icons at corresponding selected locations in the process definition region;

    displaying the one or more selected graphical device icons at the corresponding selected locations in the process definition region;

    enabling the user to define a process to be carried out by one or more devices represented by the one or more selected graphical device icons; and

    transmitting data representing at least a portion of the defined process to one or more routers associated with the one or more devices represented by the one or more selected icons.

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