# US 7,613,998 B2 · Method for automatically creating at least one dialog box on an operator interface of a computer user station > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,613,998 B2 - Document ID: US7613998B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/773,433 - Filed: 2004-02-09 - Published: 2004-12-23 - Granted: 2009-11-03 - Earliest claimed: 2001-08-08 - Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Inventors: Peter Wiedenberg - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7613998B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/04847: Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials - G05B 2219/36177: Select block and display graphic representation associated with block type - G05B 2219/37081: Display machining parameters - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) ## Abstract A method for automatically creating at least one dialog box on an operator interface of a computer user station, which is connected to an industrial process installation via at least one interface so as to transmit data (e.g., process data, status data, control and/or regulating data). The created dialog box displays the transmitted data of the process installation on the operator interface. Further, the data of the process installation that is to be displayed is assigned to certain, stored data types. The at least one dialog box is created on the operator interface of the computer user station so as to display the data to be graphically represented by means of display types (e.g., pointers, bars, numerical displays, etc.), which are assigned to the respective data types. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for automatically creating at least one display box on an operator interface of a computer user station, which is connected to an industrial process installation via at least one interface so as to transmit data, wherein the at least one display box displays the transmitted data of the industrial process installation on the operator interface, the method comprising: a) automatically generating a dialog box; b) selecting at least one data element to be displayed from the data that is transmitted from the industrial process installation in the dialog box; c) indicating a memory address of the data element; and d) assigning the transmitted data of the industrial process installation that is to be displayed to certain, stored data types; and e) automatically generating the at least one display box on the operator interface of the computer user station so as to display the data utilizing display types that are respectively assigned to the data types, wherein the data type is selected from the group consisting of process data, status data, control data and regulating data, wherein the data types define various types of data present in the industrial process installation, and wherein the transmitted data is categorized into one of the data types. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display types are selected from the group consisting of pointers, bars, and numeric displays. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display box is retrieved on the operator interface of the computer user station via a link identifier of a further display box. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the further display box is assigned to a library stored in the computer user station. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the further display box is created via a supporting graphics program. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmitted data that is to be displayed is selected from the transmitted data of the process installation. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: modifying the assignment of the data types and the display types. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: modifying a number and a type of the display types. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: modifying a number and a type of the data types. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the assignments between the data types and the display types are pre-stored in the computer user station. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a user modifying the pre-stored assignments between the data types and the display types. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the industrial process installation comprises interconnected machine tools with individual converter-fed engines. ### Claim 13 A method, comprising: assigning data, which are transmitted from a technical facility to a computer, to respective data types stored in the computer; assigning the data types to respective display types; and automatically generating at least one display box on a graphical user interface of the computer so as to display the data on the graphical user interface with the data types and the display types, wherein the data types are selected from the group consisting of process data, status data, control data and regulating data, wherein the data types define various types of data present in an industrial process installation, and wherein the transmitted data is categorized into one of the data types. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the industrial process installation comprises interconnected machine tools with individual converter-fed engines.