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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 12, 2011
Pradyumna Ojha, Hyderabad, IN;
Abhik Banerjee, Hyderabad, IN;
John Alexander Petzen, Iii, Roanoke, VA (US);
William Kennedy Galt, Rustburg, VA (US);
Andre Steven Demaurice, Salem, VA (US);
Guruprasad Karkala Vishwanath, Hyderabad, IN;
Pradyumna Ojha, Hyderabad, IN;
Abhik Banerjee, Hyderabad, IN;
John Alexander Petzen, III, Roanoke, VA (US);
William Kennedy Galt, Rustburg, VA (US);
Andre Steven DeMaurice, Salem, VA (US);
Guruprasad Karkala Vishwanath, Hyderabad, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The embodiments described herein include a system and a method. In one embodiment, an industrial process control system includes a processor and a link active scheduler. The link active scheduler is configured to schedule execution of a macrocycle. The macrocycle includes an application timeslot and an asynchronous timeslot. The link active scheduler is further configured to schedule execution of scheduled instructions for a plurality of field devices of the industrial process control system in the application timeslot. The link active scheduler is further configured to schedule execution of unscheduled instructions for the plurality of field devices of the industrial process control system in the asynchronous timeslot. The industrial process control system further includes a macrocycle viewer executable by the processor. The macrocycle viewer is configured to display the macrocycle in a visual format.