US 8,819,562 B2Granted

Quick connect and disconnect, base line configuration, and style configurator

AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.

InventorsAjay N. Nair, Sundaramoorthi Jhangavel, Manjesh Bharati, Jerry Marti

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Abstract

For a quick connect, a user may receive a list of available groups, select a particular group, and provide site number and controller number for a station/platform to be identified and connected. For a quick disconnect, user may have a list of all active stations/platforms from which to select for disconnect, including an option to disconnect all stations/platforms at once. A style configurator user interface may be invoked, which can populate a window with colors selected for menu bar, tool bar, and like components. A menu option may be provided in the tool bar where user can change the baseline from an old station configuration to a new station configuration. Thus, when user creates a new site controller, the configuration file may reflect control strategies and configuration updates added before as the new baseline.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method for a quick disconnect comprising:

opening a user interface console;
providing a login for a supervisor server application port;
the user interface console connecting to the supervisor server application port;
the user interface console rendering a main group table view with active toolbar options for disconnecting from virtually all site controllers, less than virtually all site controllers, or virtually no site controllers;
and
wherein:
disconnecting from virtually all site controllers, less than virtually all site controllers, or virtually no site controllers comprises selecting a disconnect toolbar option from the active toolbar options to open a quick disconnect popup showing virtually all of the currently connected site controllers;
disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers comprises disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node;
and
disconnecting from less than virtually all site controllers via a site navigation tree node comprises:
expanding an enterprise site controllers node;
expanding a desired group node;
searching for a desired site node;
expanding the desired site node;
expanding a desired site controller node;
selecting a site controller configuration node;
and
closing a connection of the site controller configuration node.

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A method for a quick connect to a site controller, the method comprising:

opening a user interface console;
providing a login for a supervisor server application port at the user interface console, the user interface console connecting to the supervisor server application port and rendering a main group table view with active toolbar options;
selecting a quick connect toolbar button from the active toolbar options causing the user interface console to open a quick connect popup to connect a site controller by entering a site number;
entering a site number of a site controller in the quick connect popup;
and
connecting to at least one controller via a remote connection;
and
wherein:
connecting to at least one controller via a remote connection comprises using the entered site number of a site controller to retrieve the site controller connection information from the supervisor server and establish a connection to the site controller with the retrieved site controller connection information from the supervisor server;
connecting to at least one controller via a site navigation tree comprises establishing an initial connection to a site controller using the user interface by:
expanding an enterprise site controller tree node;
expanding a desired group tree node;
searching a desired site node,
expanding the desired site node;
expanding a desired site controller node;
double clicking on a site controller configuration node;
the user interface console retrieving site controller connection information from a supervisor and establishing a connection to a site controller;
and
storing a group number and a site controller number associated with the connected site controller in a data store.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.