Method for controlling and/or monitoring data processing device and computer program
AssigneeAccenture Global Services Limited
InventorsStefano Bergantino, Luigi Gagliardi, Marco Irione
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Abstract
A graphical user interface, implemented in a standard system management environment, accepts selections of logical instruction steps that are external to the standard system management environment. The logical instruction steps may include process steps, specify chemical formulae, or identify other components of master recipes that control drug manufacture or dispensing, as examples. The external logical instruction steps are introduced into the standard system management environment and approved. The standard system management environment subsequently controls the drug manufacturing or dispensing processes according to the external logical instruction steps.
Claims40
A process control method comprising:
- providing a graphical user interface (GUI) internally to an existing process management environment that controls a process;
- displaying on the GUI commercially available process information from an independent remote external provider and accepting a selection of external logical instruction steps from the commercially available process information;
- in response to the selection, connecting over a network interface to the independent remote external provider and purchasing the external logical instruction steps from the independent remote external provider for delivery into the existing process management environment;
- receiving the external logical instruction steps from the independent remote external provider with respect to the existing process management environment and with respect to the GUI;
- receiving compatibility instructions for the external logical instruction steps from the independent remote external provider;
- introducing the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- controlling the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
A process control system comprising:
- a display that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for an existing process management environment that controls a process, displays on the GUI commercially available process information from an independent remote external provider, and accepts a selection of external logical instruction steps from the commercially available process information;
- a network interface to the independent remote external provider that connects to the independent remote external provider for purchasing the external logical instruction steps for delivery into the existing process management environment;
- a communication interface operable to receive the external logical instruction steps and compatibility instructions for the external logic instruction steps from an independent remote external provider with respect to the existing process management environment;
- introduction logic operable to introduce the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- a process controller operable to control the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
A computer system memory comprising processor executable instructions to:
- provide a graphical user interface (GUI) in an existing process management environment that controls a process;
- display on the GUI commercially available process information from an independent remote external provider and accept a selection of external logical instruction steps from the commercially available process information;
- in response to the selection, connect over a network interface to the independent remote external provider and purchase the external logical instruction steps from the independent remote external provider for delivery into the existing process management environment;
- receive the external logical instruction steps from an independent remote external provider with respect to the existing process management environment;
- receive compatibility instructions for the external logical instruction steps from the independent remote external provider;
- introduce the external logical instruction steps into the existing process management environment;
- control the process using the existing process management environment in accordance with the external logical instruction steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.