Patent ID: 9612588
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,Y02P

Claim:
1. A tangible, non-transitory media having stored thereon software instructions executable by a processor, said instructions comprising: instructions for receiving data indicative of a manufacturing/process control system being monitored; instructions for displaying a user interface indicative of a status of the manufacturing/process control system being monitored, said status is based on the received data; instructions for displaying graphic elements as part of the user interface wherein each graphic element is an object associated with and indicative of an alarm status of one or more physical conditions of the manufacturing/process control system being monitored wherein one or more of the graphic elements is part of a multi-layered hierarchical architecture of elements and has multiple sub-elements within its hierarchy; and instructions responsive to user input for configuring a selected graphic element with a border which is selectively animated in response to the alarm status associated with the selected graphic element being in an alert condition indicating that the one or more physical conditions of the manufacturing/process control system associated with the selected graphic element is not at an acceptable value; and instructions for specifying a user-defined level of hierarchy for the graphic elements, instructions for specifying an alarm status for each graphic element exceeding a user-defined threshold level which is considered severe, and instructions for exposing an alarm status of a particular graphic element having multiple sub-elements within its hierarchy when one of the multiple sub-elements within its hierarchy for the particular graphic element has an alarm status exceeding a threshold for the one sub-element.