Douglas A Doty

US Patent:

57516138, May 12, 1998

Filed:

Sep 3, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/697919

Inventors:

Douglas E. Doty - Cave Creek AZ
David G. Johnsen - Phoenix AZ
Donald W. Moore - Phoenix AZ

International Classification:

G06F 1208

US Classification:

364578

Abstract:

There is provided a process control system having a display program that permits an program designer to create and edit dynamic picture objects in a persistent heap and save the heap to a storage medium. The display program rapidly reads the dynamic picture objects from the storage medium and invokes the objects for viewing on the system's interactive display. When the persistent heap is subsequently read from the storage medium by an operator, the dynamic picture objects stored in the heap do not need to be instantiated and, thus, invocation of the objects is accelerated and optimized. Accordingly, the persistent heap greatly improves the speed in which picture objects can be read from the storage medium, processed by the display program and called-up to the interactive display.