QUICK CONNECT AND DISCONNECT, BASE LINE CONFIGURATION, AND STYLE CONFIGURATOR

• US 20120084660A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Nair, Ajay N., Marti, Jerry, T, Sundaramoorthi, Bharati, Manjesh
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,562 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web

Abstract

An approach for quick connect, quick disconnect, style configurator and baseline change actions for station/platform systems. For a quick connect, a user may receive a list of available groups, select a particular group, and provide site number and controller number for a station/platform to be identified and connected. For a quick disconnect, user may have a list of all active stations/platforms from which to select for disconnect, including an option to disconnect all stations/platforms at once. A style configurator user interface may be invoked, which can populate a window with colors selected for menu bar, tool bar, and like components. A menu option may be provided in the tool bar where user can change the baseline from an old station configuration to a new station configuration. Thus, when user creates a new site controller, the configuration file may reflect control strategies and configuration updates added before as the new baseline.

Claims

1. An approach for a quick connect comprising:

opening a user interface console;

providing a login for a supervisor server application port;

the user interface console connecting to the supervisor server application port;

the user interface console rendering a main group table view with active toolbar options; and

connecting to at least one controller via a remote connection, a site navigation tree or main table view.

2. The approach of claim 1, wherein connecting to at least one controller via a remote connection comprises:

selecting a quick convert toolbar button;

the user interface console opening a quick connect popup;

entering a site number of a site controller;

the user interface console retrieving site controller connection information from the supervisor; and

the user interface console establishing a connection to the site controller.

3. The approach of claim 1, wherein connecting to at least one controller via a site navigation tree comprises:

expanding an enterprise site controller tree node;

expanding a desired group tree node;

searching a desired site node,

expanding the desired site node;

expanding a desired site controller node;

double clicking on a site controller configuration node;

the user interface console retrieving site controller connection information from a supervisor; and

the user interface console establishing a connection to a site controller.

4. The approach of claim 1, wherein connecting to at least one controller via a main table view comprises:

searching and clicking on a desired group in a main table view;

the user interface console retrieving and rendering virtually all sites into a select group in the main table view;

searching and clicking on the desired site in the main table view;

the user interface console retrieving and rendering virtually all site controllers in a selected site into the main table view;

clicking on a desired site controller table entry;

the user interface console retrieving site controller connection information from a supervisor; and

the user interface console establishing a connection to a site controller.

5. An approach for a quick disconnect comprising:

opening a user interface console;

providing a login for a supervisor server application port;

the user interface console connecting to the supervisor server application port;

the user interface console rendering a main group table view with active toolbar options for disconnecting from virtually all site controllers, less than virtually all site controllers, or virtually no site controllers.

6. The approach of claim 5, wherein disconnecting from virtually all site controllers comprises:

selecting a disconnect toolbar option;

the user interface console opening a disconnect list showing virtually all currently connected site controllers;

selecting virtually all or selected site controllers for disconnection and closing with an accept action; and

the user interface console closing virtually all connections selected by the user.

7. The approach of claim 5, wherein:

disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers comprises disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node; and

disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node comprises;

expanding an enterprise site controllers node;

expanding a desired group node;

searching for a desired site node;

expanding the desired site node;

expanding a desired site controller node;

selecting a site controller configuration node; and

closing a connection of the site controller configuration node.

8. The approach of claim 5, wherein:

disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers comprises disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node; and

disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node comprises further disconnecting one or more site controllers.

9. The approach of claim 8, wherein further disconnecting one or more site controllers comprises:

searching for another desired site node;

expanding the other desired site node;

expanding another desired site controller node; and

selecting another site controller configuration node; and

closing a connection of the other site controller configuration node.

10. The approach of claim 5, wherein:

disconnecting from virtually no site controllers comprises disconnecting from virtually no site controllers via a user interface console closure; and

disconnecting from virtually no site controllers via a user interface console closure comprises;

selecting a user interface console exit tool menu option; and

closing all active site controller connections.

11. An approach for utilizing a style configurator comprising:

opening a user interface console application;

determining that a customized user interface console theme exists;

reading a user interface console theme file; and

applying a custom theme to the user interface console application.

12. The approach of claim 11, further comprising:

deciding to change a user interface console theme style;

invoking a style configurator option from a tool menu;

a user interface console rendering a style configurator popup;

changing available colors, fonts and/or sizes;

saving theme style customizations; and

applying a custom theme style to the user interface console application.

13. The approach of claim 11, further comprising:

deciding not to change a user interface console theme style; and

using the user interface console.

14. An approach for utilizing a style configurator comprising:

opening a user interface console application;

determining that a customized user interface console theme does not exist; and

applying a default theme to the user interface console application.

15. The approach of claim 14, further comprising:

deciding to change a user interface console theme style;

invoking a style configurator option from a tool menu;

a user interface console rendering a style configurator popup;

changing available colors, fonts and/or sizes;

saving theme style customizations; and

applying a custom theme to the user interface console application.

16. The approach of claim 14, further comprising:

deciding not to change a user interface console theme style; and

using the user interface console.

17. An approach for changing a baseline configuration, comprising:

opening a user interface console;

providing a login for a supervisor server application port;

the user interface console connecting to the supervisor server application port; and

the user interface console rendering a main group table view with active toolbar options.

18. The approach of claim 17, further comprising:

deciding to create a new site controller;

navigating to a desired group in a site navigation tree;

selecting a site node;

invoking an add new site controller action;

the user interface console copying a baseline site controller configuration from a first data store in a supervisor to a new initial site controller configuration in a second data store in the supervisor; and

creating custom site controller configuration changes.

19. The approach of claim 18, further comprising:

deciding to make a new site controller configuration a new baseline configuration;

navigating to a new site controller node in the site navigation tree; and

invoking a change baseline toolbar button.

20. The approach of claim 19, further comprising:

the user interface console making a backup of a current baseline site controller configuration; and

the user interface console copying a selected site controller configuration from the second data store to a new baseline site controller configuration at the first data store.