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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
May. 17, 2005
Mark Bryant, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Michael Haedrich, Munich, DE;
Rashesh Mody, San Clemente, CA (US);
Scott Clark, Cottles Bridge, AU;
Mark Bryant, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Michael Haedrich, Munich, DE;
Rashesh Mody, San Clemente, CA (US);
Scott Clark, Cottles Bridge, AU;
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for designing animated visualization interfaces depicting, at a supervisory level, manufacturing and process control information wherein graphical symbols in the visualization interfaces are associated with components of a process control/manufacturing information application. The system includes a graphical symbol library for maintaining a set of graphical symbol templates wherein the graphical symbol templates including a graphics definition including graphics and a reference to an application component type. The reference facilitates identifying candidate application components for creating an association between a graphical symbol instance created from a graphical symbol template and one of the candidate application components. The system also includes a graphical symbol design environment for selecting the graphical symbol template, specifying an application component corresponding to the component type, and creating an association between the graphical symbol instance and the specified application component.