METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A DATA DRIVEN INTERFACE BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROCESS CONTROL TAGS
First Claim
1. A computer program comprising a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for navigation in an operator display in a process control system for use in a process plant, the method comprising:
- receiving a list of relationship value references and process control graphical element identifications associated with each relationship value reference, wherein each process control graphical element identification uniquely identifies a process control graphical element of the operator display;
binding each relationship value reference to two or more process control graphical elements of the operator display based on the associated process control graphical element identifications, wherein each process control graphical element graphically illustrates an entity within the process plant and each relationship value reference uniquely identifies a logical and/or physical relationship between two or more entities within the process plant;
displaying a first process control graphical element in the operator display;
reading, in response to a user selection of the first process control graphical element, a relationship value reference bound to the first process control graphical element; and
displaying a second process control graphical element linked to the first process control graphical element by the relationship value reference binding the first and second process control graphical elements.
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Abstract
Navigation between process control graphics representative of process control entities in an operator display includes a list of relationship value references and process control graphical element identifications associated with each relationship value reference. Each process control graphical element identification uniquely identifies a process control graphical element of the operator display, each relationship is between various physical/logical entities and each relationship value reference uniquely identifies a logical and/or physical relationship between two or more entities within the process plant. One or more relationships are associated with a graphical object. Each relationship value reference is bound to two or more process control graphical elements of the operator display based on associated process control graphical element identifications.
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34 Claims
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1. A computer program comprising a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for navigation in an operator display in a process control system for use in a process plant, the method comprising:
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receiving a list of relationship value references and process control graphical element identifications associated with each relationship value reference, wherein each process control graphical element identification uniquely identifies a process control graphical element of the operator display; binding each relationship value reference to two or more process control graphical elements of the operator display based on the associated process control graphical element identifications, wherein each process control graphical element graphically illustrates an entity within the process plant and each relationship value reference uniquely identifies a logical and/or physical relationship between two or more entities within the process plant; displaying a first process control graphical element in the operator display; reading, in response to a user selection of the first process control graphical element, a relationship value reference bound to the first process control graphical element; and displaying a second process control graphical element linked to the first process control graphical element by the relationship value reference binding the first and second process control graphical elements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A graphic display editor for use in a process plant to navigate between process control graphical elements that represent entities within a process plant, the graphic display editor comprising:
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a library of relationships, wherein each of the relationships includes a different relationship between a physical or a logical entity within the process control plant and another physical or logical entity within the process control plant; a graphically based navigational editor routine that enables a user to define an executable graphic display by placing indications of one or more graphic objects from a library of graphic objects onto an edit view to define a manner in which visual representations of the one or more graphic objects will be displayed on a display device to a user during execution of the graphic display, the graphic objects being representative of physical or logical entities within the process control plant; a relationship routine that enables the user to associate one or more relationships from the library of relationships with a graphical object, wherein the relationship routine enables the user to control navigation from the graphic object to another graphical object based on the relationship; and a graphically based navigational editor routine that enables a user to further define the executable graphic display by placing indications of one or more relationship graphic objects onto an edit view to define a manner in which visual representations of the one or more relationships will be displayed on a display device to a user in conjunction with the visual representations of the one or more graphic objects associated with the relationships during execution of the graphic display. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A computer system for use in a process control system including a memory for storing computer-executable instructions, a processor for executing the instructions, and a display for displaying one or more visual relationship representations in a graphical representation of the process control plant, each visual relationship representation representing a relationship between two entities within the process control system, the system comprising:
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a database including one or more relationships between a physical or a logical entity within the process control plant and another physical or logical entity within the process control plant; and a graphical human-machine interface for displaying the graphical representation of the process plant, the interface including a relationship module having computer-executable instructions for; configuring a relationship value reference and two or more process control graphical element identifications associated with the relationship value reference; binding each configured relationship value reference to two or more process control graphical elements of the graphical human-machine interface based on the two or more configured process control graphical element identifications; and driving navigation of the operation display from the first process control graphical element to the second process control graphical element using the relationship value reference. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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