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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:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2001
Applicants:
Stefan Schlicker, Höchstadt, DE;
Roland Schreiber, Lauterbach, DE;
Inventors:
Stefan Schlicker, Höchstadt, DE;
Roland Schreiber, Lauterbach, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 23/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/46 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a technical system a plurality of values associated respectively with a component are stored in at least one computer unit. The computer unit is enabled to trigger an evaluation of at least one other component with a value when a component begins or terminates operation, and the values of each component are added. The computer unit is also enabled to determine which components should be started or stopped based on the added values.