Christopher S Baldwin

US Patent:

7468731, Dec 23, 2008

Filed:

Apr 11, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/402644

Inventors:

Keith E. Eldridge - North Easton MA, US
Mikhail V. Fishbeyn - Natick MA, US
Paul Meskonis - Norwood MA, US
Christopher Neil Baldwin - Middleboro MA, US

Assignee:

Invensys Systems, Inc. - Foxboro MA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00
G06F 3/00
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

345581, 345619, 345624, 345661, 345156, 715700, 715764, 715769, 715788, 717114

Abstract:

Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control strategies to other control strategies, GUI-based designation of object execution order, automatically applied line styles based upon connection data type, and automatic modification of elements within an appearance object to accommodate a moved attribute.

US Patent:

20070240069, Oct 11, 2007

Filed:

Apr 11, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/403225

Inventors:

Keith Eldridge - North Easton MA, US
Mikhail Fishbeyn - Natick MA, US
Paul Meskonis - Norwood MA, US
James Hemenway - West Wareham MA, US
Christopher Baldwin - Middleboro MA, US

Assignee:

Invensys Systems, Inc. - Foxboro MA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715763000

Abstract:

Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control strategies to other control strategies, GUI-based designation of object execution order, automatically applied line styles based upon connection data type, and automatic modification of elements within an appearance object to accommodate a moved attribute.