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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Hiromi Sasaki, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiga, JP;
Shintaro Iwamura, Shiga, JP;
Masaki Namie, Osaka, JP;
Hiromi Sasaki, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiga, JP;
Shintaro Iwamura, Shiga, JP;
Masaki Namie, Osaka, JP;
OMRON CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a design assistance system that enables a user having no expert knowledge to easily design a network system, taking into consideration the order in which slave devices are connected and the connection-destination ports. The design assistance system has a storage section that stores slave information data in which unique information of the slave device is described; an acquisition section that acquires information of a port of the slave device from the slave information data; and a generation section that generates a port component serving as a GUI component representing the port of the slave device based on the information of the port, generate a device component serving as a GUI component representing the slave device based on the slave information data, and generate a design assisting GUI containing a topology display screen that displays the topology of the network system which includes the device component and port component.