Patent ID: 9285799
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G05B,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A method to dynamically display data associated with a process control system, the method comprising: receiving in a graphics engine, process control information selected by a user; identifying first process data associated with the selected process control information; retrieving the first process data from a process controller; generating first metadata for a data representation of the first process data by cross-referencing the retrieved first process data to a metadata type in a metadata type database; determining first icon connection information representative of a configuration of the process control system based on the first metadata; parsing the first metadata by first metadata identifiers in the first metadata, the first metadata identifiers indicating (1) a first icon representative of a first field device associated with the process control information, (2) a second icon representative of a second field device associated with the process control information, and (3) the first icon connection information is associated with the first and the second icons; generating in the graphics engine the data representation based on the first metadata identifiers by cross-referencing the first metadata identifiers to corresponding data representation types in a metadata rules database; displaying the data representation of the first process data via a user interface; identifying second process data associated with a change in the process control system, the change being at least one of adding a field device to the process control system or removing one of the field devices from the process control system; and in response to the at least one of adding the field device to the process control system or removing one of the field devices from the process control system, automatically modifying the displayed data representation of the first process data by incorporating the second process data into the displayed data representation.