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Monitoring and control system using graphical representations with prelinked parameters for devices within a network

  • US 5,675,756 A
  • Filed: 11/29/1995
  • Issued: 10/07/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A control structure comprising a controller, a plurality of physical devices coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is adapted to control and monitor the physical devices, and a user interface coupled to the controller for displaying representations of status conditions of the physical device, the control structure comprising:

  • a system database adapted to include the representations of the physical device;

    means for creating the system database within the user interface;

    means for representing each of said plurality of physical devices within the control structure for use within the user interface, the representing means adapted to be accessible from the system database, the system database having groupings of the representing means that are grouped according the location of the physical device which the representing means represents, the groupings being arranged in a distributed database configuration for real-time use; and

    means for viewing and controlling said representing means of each of said plurality of physical devices from said user interface.

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