Method or System for Displaying an Internet Page on a Visualization Device of an Industrial Automation Device

• US 20090271012A1
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kopka, Markus, Wolf, Edgar, Malik, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/991,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271012A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

There is described a method for displaying an Internet page an/or an intranet page on a visualization device of an industrial automation device, wherein the method relates to data of the Internet page and/or intranet page which are stored in a first data format on a server. In this case, the industrial automation device can be unburdened of tasks for displaying the page. The data of the Internet page and/or intranet page can be transmitted to a data processing device via the Internet and/or an intranet and can be received by the data processing device, after which the data processing device converts the data of the Internet page and or intranet page, which are in the first data format, into a second data format, after which these converted data are transmitted to the industrial automation device and/or to the visualization device of the industrial automation device. Following this, the page can be fully or partially displayed on the visualization device of the industrial automation device.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method for displaying an internet page or an intranet page on a visualization device, wherein data of the internet page or intranet page are stored in a first data format on a server, comprising:

receiving the data by a data processing device;

converting the data from the first data format in a second data format;

transmitting the converted data to an industrial automation device or to the visualization device; and

displaying the converted data of the page fully or partially on the visualization device.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the converted data are transmitted via a field bus to the automation device, wherein the visualization device is assigned to the automation device.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein a parameter data of the visualization device is transmitted to the data processing device, wherein the conversion of the data of the page is based upon the parameter data.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein a parameter data of the visualization device is transmitted to the data processing device, wherein the conversion of the data of the page is based upon the parameter data.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the conversion of the page is a conversion into the pixel-oriented data format.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the conversion of the page is a conversion into the pixel-oriented data format.

15. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the industrial automation device or the visualization device requests the page from the data processing device.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the industrial automation device or the visualization device requests the page from the data processing device.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the industrial automation device or the visualization device requests the page from the data processing device.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the data processing device queries the page data from the server.

19. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the data processing device queries the page data from a plurality of servers.

20. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the conversion of the page is a conversion into the pixel-oriented data format, wherein an interactive element of the or an animated element of the page or a cookie allocated to the page is detected by the data processing device, wherein additional data on this element are generated, wherein the additional data enables an allocation of the element or the cookie to a position of pixels for the display on the visualization device.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the additional data are used to form a display superimposed over the page on the visualization device.

22. The method as claimed in one of claim 9, wherein a position of a cursor on the visualization device is recognized and positional information is transmitted to the data processing device.

23. The method as claimed in one of claim 21, wherein a position of a cursor on the visualization device is recognized and positional information is transmitted to the data processing device.

24. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the additional data are linked to an operator control action on the industrial automation device or on the visualization device.

25. The method as claimed in claim 24, wherein result data are produced based upon the additional data and transmitted to the data processing device or to the server.

27. The system as claimed in claim 25, wherein a parameter data of the visualization device is transmitted to the data processing device, wherein the conversion of the data of the page is based upon the parameter data, wherein the conversion of the page is a conversion into the pixel-oriented data format, and wherein the page is displayed partially.

28. The system as claimed in claim 27, wherein the industrial automation device or the visualization device requests the page from the data processing device, wherein the converted data are transmitted via a field bus to the automation device, and wherein the visualization device is assigned to the automation device.

26. A system for displaying an internet page or an intranet page on a visualization device of an industrial automation device, comprising:

a data processing device converts the page data into a pixel-oriented data format, wherein the converted data is provided for a visual display on the visualization device.