Patent ID: 9397897
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G05B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A control device of a design assistance system for designing a network system in which a master device and at least one slave device are connected to a communication bus such that the master device and the at least one slave device can communicate with each other, the network system being formed by interconnecting ports of each of the master device and the at least one slave device, the control device comprising: a memory configured to store slave information data in which unique information of each of the at least one slave device is described; and a processor configured to acquire information of a connection interface of a port of each of the at least one slave device from the slave information data, generate a port component serving as a first GUI component representing a type of the connection interface of the port of each of the at least one slave device based on information of the port, generate a device component serving as a second GUI component representing each of the at least one slave device based on the slave information data, and generate a design assisting GUI having a topology display screen configured to display a design of a topology of the network system, which is built by connecting the device component and the port component to each other.