Device control system employing extensible markup language for defining information resources

• US 20080109402A1
• Filed: 11/02/2006
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Storz Endoskop Produktions GmbH (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg)
• Original Assignee: Storz Endoskop Produktions GmbH (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg)
• Inventors: Wang, Gang, Contolini, Matteo, Zheng, Chengyi, Stiller, Heinz-Werner
• Granted Patent: US 8,037,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

A device control system including at least one device operable by the system, at least one processor, software executing on the at least one processor for receiving message data and determining a corresponding XML document type, software executing on the at least one processor for generating a XML document based on the XML document type, the XML document including the message data, software executing on the processor for packetizing the XML document, and two or more communication components, each communication component including an XML parser for parsing the XML document and extracting the message data.

Claims

1. A device control system, comprising:

at least one device operable by the system;

at least one processor;

software executing on said at least one processor for receiving message data and determining a corresponding XML document type;

software executing on said at least one processor for generating a XML document based on the XML document type, the XML document including the message data;

software executing on said processor for packetizing the XML document; and

two or more communication components, each communication component comprising an XML parser for parsing the XML document and extracting the message data.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

software executing on said processor for sending the packetized XML document via a communication channel to at least one of the communication components.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the at least one of the communication components is a command controller, wherein the message data includes at least one command for operating the at least one device.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said software for determining the corresponding XML document type queries one or more document type definitions.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said software for generating the XML document generates the XML document based on at least one of the document type definitions.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein each communication component further comprises:

a decoder for receiving and decoding the XML document.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the communication components includes the at least one processor.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the components is a user interface.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the components is a voice receiver.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the message data includes at least one of device data, control data, feedback data, and voice interface data.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the message data includes speech data indicative of a control command to operate the at least one device.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one device is a medical device.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the message data includes multimedia data.

14. A device control system, comprising:

at least one device controllable by the system; and

two or more communication components, each communication component comprising;

a type identifier for determining an XML document type corresponding to message data based on one or more document type definitions;

an XML constructor for generating a XML document including the message data based on the XML document type;

a packetizer for packetizing the XML document; and

an XML parser for parsing the XML document and extracting the message data based on XML syntax.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein at least one of the communication components is a command controller, wherein the message data includes at least one command for operating the at least one device.

16. The system according to claim 14, further comprising:

software executing on each of the two or more communication components for sending the packetized XML document via a communication channel to at least one other of the communication components.

17. The system according to claim 14, wherein the message data includes at least one of device data, control data, feedback data, voice interface data and system data.

18. A method for exchanging information in a device control system, comprising the steps of:

receiving message data from one or more components of the device control system;

determining an XML document type based on the message data;

determining a document definition based on the XML document type;

generating an XML document including the message data based on the document definition;

packetizing the XML document; and

sending the packetized XML document via a communication channel.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising the steps of:

receiving the packetized XML document from the communication channel;

parsing the XML document; and

extracting the message data based on XML syntax.

20. The method according to claim 18, wherein the message data includes one of device data, control data, feedback data, and voice interface data.