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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Melvin H Lipner, Monroeville, PA (US);
David A Reed, Plum Borough, PA (US);
Steven D Whaley, Monroeville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ; G01B / ; G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364146 ; 364188 ; 364550 ; 376216 ;
Abstract
A method of displaying data corresponding to a procedure is provided where all of the data required to follow the procedure is displayed together with abbreviated text corresponding to the procedure. Text and data corresponding to only a portion of the procedure is displayed at any given time. Additional information related to several consecutive steps of the procedure which appear on separate screens is displayed continuously to one side of the screen. Additional data may be selected to displayed prior to returning to the original screen.