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US 10,185,308 B2Granted
Methods and systems to provide update information of a device description of a field instrument
AssigneeFisher Controls International LLC
InventorMitchell Stephen Panther
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Abstract
Methods and systems to update information of a device description of a field instrument are described. In one example, a method involves comparing a host revision of the device description executed via a host application to an instrument revision of the device description of the field instrument, generating a character string of update information based on the comparison, the character string containing the update information, and displaying the character string via the host application.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- transmitting a request from a computing device to a field device of a process control system instructing the field device to generate a message corresponding to update information associated with a device description file executed by the computing device, the device description file to facilitate access of a first function of the field device by the computing device, the request including a first version of the device description file;
- comparing, at the field device, the first version to a second version of the device description file stored in the field device;
- in response to determining that the first version is different than the second version based on the comparison, generating the message to include a hyperlink and information identifying function differences between the first version and the second version, the function differences corresponding to at least a second function of the field device not available to the computing device when using the first version;
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- in response to receiving the message at the computing device from the field device, displaying the message via a host application executed by the computing device, the displayed message providing the hyperlink to direct the computing device to a web site to obtain the second version.
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A tangible computer readable storage device storing machine readable instructions, which when executed, cause a computing device and a field device of a process control system to at least:
- transmit a request from the computing device to the field device instructing the field device to generate a message corresponding to update information associated with a device description file executed by the computing device, the device description file to facilitate access of a first function of the field device by the computing device, the request including a first version of the device description file;
- compare, at the field device, the first version to a second version of the device description file stored in the field device;
- in response to determining that the first version is different than the second version based on the comparison, generate the message to include a hyperlink and information identifying function differences between the first version and the second version;
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- in response to receiving the message at the computing device from the field device, provide the message to a host application executed by the computing device for display, the displayed message providing the hyperlink to direct the computing device to a website to obtain the second version.
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A system, comprising:
- a computing device of a process control system to interact with a field device via a first version of a device description file executed by the computing device, the device description file to facilitate access of a first function of the field device by the computing device, the computing device to transmit a request to the field device instructing the field device to generate a message corresponding to update information associated with the device description file, the request including the first version;
- the field device to:
- compare the first version and a second version of the device description file stored in the field device;
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- generate the message when the first version is different than the second version based on the comparison, the message to include a hyperlink and information to identify function differences between the first version and the second version, the function differences corresponding to at least a second function of the field device not available to the computing device when using the first version;
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- a display of the computing device to render the message via a user interface when the computing device receives the message from the field device, the displayed message providing the hyperlink to direct the computing device to a website to obtain the second version.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.