US 2026/0220058 A1 · ALIAS RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZER

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for rendering a visualization of alias relationships of one or more components. A client device may receive alias information from an alias name service (ANS) of a global discovery server (GDS) and may render content based on the received alias information. For example, a client device otherwise limited to exclusively providing content indicating a component’s default nomenclature (e.g., “DCN 132.546”), e.g., without alias information, may instead provide aliased content indicative of a component’s function (e.g., “DCN Water Filtration”). Further, a client device otherwise limited to exclusively providing textual content may instead provide graphic content (e.g., schematics, flowcharts, etc.) in addition to and/or in lieu of the textual content based on received alias information.

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Dependent claims

A method implemented using one or more processors and comprising:

identifying:
a first input/output (I/O) alias that corresponds to a first I/O channel provided by a first distributed control node (DCN) of a process automation facility;
one or more function blocks (FBs) that are operably coupled with the first I/O channel corresponding to the first I/O alias;
and
one or more other DCNs that host the one or more FBs;
in response to identifying the first I/O alias, the one or more FBs, and the one or more other DCNs:
generating data operable to render a graphical user interface (GUI) that depicts a visual mapping between the first I/O alias and the one or more FBs, and further depicts one or more visual annotations indicating which of the one or more other DCNs hosts each of the one or more FBs, and
causing, responsive to receiving user input, the GUI to be rendered at a display of a computing device.

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Alias relationship visualizer

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Abstract

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