Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen object information observed on computer network and observation display system using computer network

• US 7,225,252 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2002
• Issued: 05/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Safa, Laurent, Fujiwara, Noriaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiley; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Phuoc H
• Application Number:
  US10/188,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20030020751A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,791 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/224, 709/230, 709/203, 709/219, 725/47, 702/3
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

Observation display method for dynamically changing on monitor screen an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed as observation object on a computer network which is specified by a push request and an observation display system using a computer network. In the present method and system, at a communication terminal for monitor, observation display information in which an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is included is in advance prepared then the object information is specified by transmitting push request to a communication terminal for observation, while at a communication terminal for observation, the object information specified by the push request is observed then an event response notice, a reply about a change in the object information, is transmitted to the communication terminal for monitor every when an event occurs in conjunction with the object information specified by the push request and the object information is changed thereby.

Claims

1. An observation display method for dynamically changing on an observation monitor screen an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed on a computer network, comprising the steps of:

at a communication terminal for monitoring on the computer network, providing an observation monitor screen;

preparing observation display information to be displayed on the observation monitor screen in which said object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is included; and

accessing a communication terminals for observation each of which communicates using its own protocol via the computer network to transmit and preset a predetermined push request thereto, based on connection setting information in which a communication address of the communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and object information to be observed are at least specified per communication terminal for observation, the push request registering a predetermined event on the object information and requiring thereto a reply of an event response notice, wherein;

at each of the communication terminals for observation accessing the communication terminal for monitor and replying thereto the object information specified by the push request as the event response notice, when the predetermined event occurs; and

at the communication terminal for monitor, further decoding the event response whenever the event response notice is received from any of the communication terminals for observation, so that the object symbol or image is dynamically changed depending on the change in the object information related to the symbol or the image received from said any of the communication terminals for observation.

2. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein:

the communication terminal for monitor stores, as an executable program, a web browser with the function of web browsing display and with an expanded function of dynamically changing the object symbol or image included in the observation display information and a user interface for transmitting to preset the push request and for decoding the event response notice replied from the communication terminal for observation in cooperation with the web browser; and

the object symbol or image related to the object information specified by the push request and displayed on the observation monitor screen is dynamically changed by cooperative work with the web browser and the user interface.

3. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein:

the communication terminal for monitor stores, as an executable program tool, an object symbol or image designing tool for selecting, preparing and arranging a desired object symbol or image for the object information to be observed, to generate and edit the observation display information on a predetermined layout editing screen.

4. The observation display method according to claim 1, wherein:

the connection setting information is registered in advance in a web server on the computer network; and

the communication terminal for monitor retrieves the connection setting information from the web server via the network and transfers it to the user interface and in reply to this, the user interface transmits to preset the push request to the communication terminal for observation based on the communication setting information.

5. An observation display system using a computer network in which a communication terminal for monitor and a communication terminal for observation are provided, wherein said communication terminal for monitor comprises:

an observation monitor screen on which observation display information including an object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is displayed; and

a function of accessing communication terminals for observation each of which communicate using its own protocol via the computer network to transmit and preset a predetermined push request thereto based on a connection setting information in which a communication address of the communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and said object information to be observed are at least specified per communication terminal for observation, the push request registering a predetermined event on said object information and requiring thereto a reply of an event response notice, wherein;

each of the communication terminals for observation comprises a function of determining whether or not said predetermined event occurs, and further a function of accessing said communication terminal for monitor and replying thereto said object information specified by said push request as the event response notice when said predetermined event occurs, whereby, at said communication terminal for monitor, said event response notice is decoded whenever said event response is received from any of the communication terminals for observation, so that said object symbol or image is dynamically changed depending on the change in said object information related to said symbol or said image received from said any of the communication terminals for observation.

6. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein:

said communication terminal for monitor comprises as an executable program, a web browser with the function of web browsing display and with an expanded function of dynamically changing said object symbol or image included in said observation display information, and a user interface for transmitting to preset said push request and for decoding an event response notice replied from said communication terminal for observation in cooperation with said web browser, whereby said object symbol or image related to said object information specified by said push request and displayed on said monitor screen is dynamically changed depending on said event response notice from said communication terminal for observation by cooperative work with said web browser and said user interface.

7. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein:

said communication terminal for monitor comprises as an executable program, an object symbol or image designing tool, by which a desired object symbol or image for said object information to be observed is selected or generated as well as other parts so as to produce said observation display information on a predetermined layout editing screen.

8. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein:

said communication terminal for observation observes plural control points as object information to be observed; and

said communication terminal for monitor is such a gateway device as to enable to be logged in when a specified identification code is inputted thereto via the computer network.

9. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein:

said object designing tool is stored in advance in said communication terminal for observation; and

said tool is enable to be down loaded when a specified identification code is inputted from said communication terminal for monitor.

10. The observation display system according to claim 5, wherein:

said connection setting information is registered in advance in a web server on said computer network; and

said communication terminal for monitor retrieves said connection setting information from said web server via said network and transfers it to said user interface, in reply to this said user interface transmits to preset said push request to said communication terminal for observation.

13. The observation display system according to claim 6, wherein:

said communication terminal for monitor observes plural control points as object information to be observed; and

said communication terminal for monitor in such gateway device as to enable to be logged in when a specified identification code is inputted thereto via a computer network.

14. The observation display system according to claim 6, wherein:

said object designing tool is in advance stored in said communication terminal for observation; and

said tool is enable to be down loaded when a specified identification code is inputted from said communication terminal for monitor.

11. A program for executing observation display stored in a memory of a communication terminal provided on a computer network in the form of a computer readable signal, wherein a program executed within an observation monitor screens, comprises:

a program step of preparing observation display information to be displayed on the observation monitor screen in which said object symbol or image related to object information to be observed is included;

a program step of accessing a communication terminals for observation each of which communicate using its own protocol via the computer network to transmit and preset a predetermined push request thereto based on connection setting information in which a communication address of the communication terminal for observation, a communication protocol and said object information to be observed are at least specified per communication terminal for observation, the push request registering a predetermined event on said object information the and requiring thereto a reply of an event response notice;

a program step of decoding the event response whenever said event responses notice is received from any of said communication terminals for observation; and

a program step of dynamically changing said object symbol or image depending on the change in said object information related to the symbol or the image received from said any of the communication terminals for observation, wherein;

a program executed within each of the said communication terminals for observation comprises;

a program step of determining whether or not said predetermined event occurs; and

, and a program of accessing said communication terminal for monitor and replying thereto, said object information specified by said push request as said event response notice when said predetermined registered event occurs.

12. The program according to claim 11, wherein:

said program is incorporated into said communication terminal for monitor as a user interface and is executed in cooperation with web browser with expanded function of dynamically changing said object symbol or image displayed on said observation monitor screen and with function of browsing display; and

said program comprises at least the step of dynamically changing an object symbol or image related to said object information to be observed in response to said event response notice.