Laboratory instrument control system
AssigneeLeica Biosystems Melbourne Pty Ltd
InventorJames Maddern
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Abstract
A server computer system connected to a first communications network and including: an instrument communications component configured to communicate with and control a plurality of biological reagent instruments using the first communications network; and a user interface component configured to cause user interface (UI) instances to be displayed by a client computer device connected by a second communications network to said server computer system; wherein said UI instances control respective virtual pods representing one or more of said biological reagent instruments.
Claims18
A server computer system connected to a first communications network and including:
- an instrument communications component configured to communicate with and control a plurality of biological reagent instruments using the first communications network;
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- a user interface component configured to cause user interface (UI) instances to be displayed by a client computer device connected by a second communications network to said server computer system;
- wherein said UI instances control respective virtual pods representing one or more of said biological reagent instruments.
A control system including an authentication computer system which allows a user with a client computer device to log on to said authentication computer system using identification data of said user, and to invoke execution of an authentication process to generate credential data for authenticating said client device for a communications session with a server computer system, the communications session enabling the user at the client computer device to control one or more biological reagent instruments in one or more virtual pods.
A method of generating a user-interface instance for use by a client computer device to control, through a communications network, a virtual pod representing one or more biological reagent instruments, the method including the step of generating and sending to the client computer device the user-interface instance based on user-specific information obtained from identification data of said user, and based one or more virtual pod definitions associated with the user-specific information.
A method of generating a user- interface (UI) instance for use by a client computer device to control, through a communications network, a virtual pod representing one or more biological reagent instruments, the method including the steps of:
- receiving from the client computer device through the communications network a request for the UI instance;
- generating and sending a first UI instance to the client computer device through the communications network, the first UI , instance enabling a user to enter identification data of the user;
- receiving, from a user management component, credential data for authenticating the client computer device;
- retrieving user-specific information from a database component using the credential data, and retrieving from said or another database component one or more virtual pod definitions using the retrieved user-specific information;
- generating and sending to the client computer device the user-interface instance based on the user-specific information and the one or more virtual pod definitions, the user-interface instance enabling a user at the client computer device to control only the virtual pods defined by the virtual pod definitions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.