US 2004/0024813 A1 · System and method for providing information in a particular format

Abstract

A system for providing information for a process, and a method to utilize such system are provided. In particular, a controller is communicatively coupled to at least one smart field device using an open smart communications protocol, and a server is communicatively coupled to the controller. The server is adapted to receive data associated with the smart field device from the controller. The server may transmit the data in a HTML format, or an at least one image which was generated based on the data. For example, the system further may include a computer system, and the server may transmit the data or the image of the data to such computer system. The computer system may also display the data in the HTML format, and/or the image of the data.

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Dependent claims

An information system, comprising:

a controller communicatively coupled to at least one smart field device using an open smart communications protocol;
and
a server communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the server is adapted to receive data associated with the at least one smart field device from the controller, and to transmit the data in a HTML format.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/431,559Filed 7 May 2003

Priority

31 Jul 2002

Published

5 Feb 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G05B 19/4185
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 15/02
Systems controlled by a computer: electric
G05B 2219/31121
From computer integrated manufacturing till monitoring: fielddevice, field controller, interface connected to fieldbus
G05B 2219/34038
Director, elements to supervisory: web, http, ftp, internet, intranet server

System and method for providing information in a particular format

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Abstract

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