Use of uniform resource locators in process control system documentation
AssigneeFisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
InventorsAndrew P. Dove, Larry O. Jundt, Trevor D. Schleiss
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Abstract
A uniform resource locator (URL) is embedded in computerized or digital documentation for a physical and/or a software process control element existing within a process control environment to thereby provide an automatic link to documentation or other applications that exist in other processing or data environments, such as in a word processing environment or in a data manipulation environment. The URL may include a generalized field having a descriptor that identifies a property of the process control element and that operates so that, when the URL is selected, the generalized field is replaced with the property identified by the descriptor.
Claims27
A computer readable memory storing a process control application for implementation and use in a control programming environment associated with a process control system having a multiplicity of process control elements therein, the process control application when executed by a controller provides the following:
- a display having a plurality of display fields for one of the multiplicity of process control elements, each of said display fields including information displayed to a user and adapted to be stored in a memory within the process control system;
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- a context sensitive uniform resource locator disposed in one of the display fields of the display screen to point to an address of an external entity, the address to which the context sensitive uniform resource locator points dynamically changing in response to changes to an attribute value of the one of the multiplicity of process control elements.
A computer readable memory storing a process control element adapted for implementation and use in a control programming environment associated with a process control system, the process control element when executed by a controller providing:
- a process function operator;
- a display having a plurality of display fields for the process function operator, each of said display fields including information displayed to a user and adapted to be stored in a memory within the process control system;
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- a context sensitive uniform resource locator disposed in one of the display fields of the display screen to point to an address of an external entity, the address to which the context sensitive uniform resource locator points dynamically changing in response to changes to an attribute value of the process function operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.