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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Gregory A. Majcher, Broadview Heights, OH (US);
Steven P. Blech, Twinsburg, OH (US);
John P. Caspers, Racine, WI (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided which allow a user to define an output device behavior in a variety of status and/or event circumstances via creating a binding or logical connection between a logic function and one or more status/event indicators. The method provides for user-defined output behavior through linking a logical function with system and module status/event indicators, whereby the output value may be determined according to the status/event indicators and user-defined function blocks. Also disclosed is an output device with an output providing an output signal according to an output value, a communication interface adapted to receive messages from a network, an indicator adapted to receive message information from a network and providing indicator data, and a logic unit which receives message information from the network, indicator data from the indicator, and which performs a logic function. The logic unit selectively provides the output value to the output according to one of the message information and the logic function.