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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Claudia Alimpich, Boulder, CO (US);
Gerald Donald Boldt, Longmont, CO (US);
Calvin Larry Doescher, Longmont, CO (US);
Joan Stagaman Goddard, Boulder, CO (US);
James Philip John Wittig, Boulder, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data processing controlled display system for the interactive control of a variety of production operations is provided which offers to an operator or to a production supervisor the means for simplifying complex interactive display interfaces, thereby significantly reducing the number of production operations properties over which the operator has control. In this reduction, all of the operator controllable properties are displayed to the user or operator, and means for selecting a plurality of these controllable properties for interactive operator control of variable property values during said production operations are provided. Upon such a selection, there are further means for maintaining the nonselected properties at constant values during said production operations. These constant value properties remain hidden from the interface and the operator is presented with a simplified interface showing only the properties of which the values are controllable.