Data acquisition method with event notification for an appliance
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1. A data acquisition method for a network of devices, each of which is configured to perform a process related to a cycle of operation in an appliance and to communicate with other devices on the network, comprising:
- looking into a memory heap of event structures related to events in the process and having parameters of at least one each of a pointer to the location of a variable data value associated with the process, an operator associated with the variable data value on the network, and an argument associated with the operator;
identifying event conditions that evaluate as true by evaluating parameters of the event conditions to the event structures in the heap memory based on the at least one each of the pointer, operator, and argument; and
generating a notification message when a true condition is found, whereby the notification message exposes events over the network to facilitate performance to the process.
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Abstract
A data acquisition method comprising looking into a memory heap of event structures having condition parameters of at least one of memory pointers, event operators, and arguments; identifying event conditions that evaluate as true by evaluating the condition parameters for the even structures; and generating a notification message when a true condition is found.
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1. A data acquisition method for a network of devices, each of which is configured to perform a process related to a cycle of operation in an appliance and to communicate with other devices on the network, comprising:
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looking into a memory heap of event structures related to events in the process and having parameters of at least one each of a pointer to the location of a variable data value associated with the process, an operator associated with the variable data value on the network, and an argument associated with the operator; identifying event conditions that evaluate as true by evaluating parameters of the event conditions to the event structures in the heap memory based on the at least one each of the pointer, operator, and argument; and generating a notification message when a true condition is found, whereby the notification message exposes events over the network to facilitate performance to the process. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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