Methods and apparatus to control information presented to process plant operators
First Claim
1. A method to control information presented to a process plant operator, the method comprising:
- presenting a process plant display including display elements;
presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a user selectable element of the process plant display is activated by the process plant operator, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used by the process plant operator to adjust a first importance level associated with a first one of the display elements, wherein the first importance level determines how the first display element is displayed relative to a second one of the display elements; and
when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has less significance than a second importance level assigned to the second display element, modifying the process plant display to diminish an appearance of the first display element relative to an appearance of the second display element; and
when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has more significance than the second importance level assigned the second display element, modifying the process plant display to highlight the appearance of the first display element relative to the appearance of the second display element.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to upgrade and control information presented to process plant operators are disclosed. A disclosed example method to control information presented to a process plant operator comprises presenting a first version of a process plant display, presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a selectable element of the first version of the process plant operator display is activated, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used to adjust an importance of information presented in the first version of the process plant display, and presenting a second version of the process plant display based on a variable adjusted via the dynamic attention user interface.
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22 Claims
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1. A method to control information presented to a process plant operator, the method comprising:
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presenting a process plant display including display elements; presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a user selectable element of the process plant display is activated by the process plant operator, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used by the process plant operator to adjust a first importance level associated with a first one of the display elements, wherein the first importance level determines how the first display element is displayed relative to a second one of the display elements; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has less significance than a second importance level assigned to the second display element, modifying the process plant display to diminish an appearance of the first display element relative to an appearance of the second display element; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has more significance than the second importance level assigned the second display element, modifying the process plant display to highlight the appearance of the first display element relative to the appearance of the second display element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An operator station apparatus comprising:
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a display; an operator display module to present an operator application on the display; a dynamic attention user interface to be presented on the display including a user adjustable input element to enable a process plant operator to select a first importance level of a first display element, wherein the first importance level forms a basis for setting a content filter rule; and a content filter module to adjust an appearance of how the first display element is presented by the operator application based on the content filter rule by; when the first display element has a lower importance level than a second importance level of a second display element, modifying the operator application to diminish an appearance of the first display element relative to an appearance of the second display element; and when the first display element has a higher importance level than the second importance level of the second display element, modifying the operator application to highlight an appearance of the first display element relative to the second display element. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A tangible article of manufacture storing machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to control information presented to a process plant operator by at least:
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presenting a process plant display including display elements; presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a user selectable element of the process plant display is activated by the process plant operator, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used by the process plant operator to adjust a first importance level associated with a first one of the display elements, wherein the first importance level determines how the first display element is displayed relative to a second one of the display elements; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has less significance than a second importance level assigned to the second display element, modifying the process plant display to diminish an appearance of the first display element relative to an appearance of the second display element; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has more significance than the second importance level assigned to the second display element, modifying the process plant display to highlight the appearance of the first display element relative to the appearance of the second display element. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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