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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2009
Peter G. Webb, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jayati Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
BO Curry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Peter G. Webb, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jayati Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bo Curry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer readable media for controlling an instrument in communication with a host computer are provided. Operations of an instrument that must be completed on schedule are controlled via an embedded controller embedded in the instrument. A complete status packet is sent to a host computer from the embedded controller. Periodically, the embedded controller repeats the sending of a complete status packet to the host computer, wherein status values in the complete status packet are updated with each iteration of sending a complete status packet.