Patent ID: 7668608
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: G05B,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of editing a graphical programming language object for designing a process control entity within an offline database, wherein the offline database comprises one of a plurality of databases each communicatively coupled to a central configuration database, the method comprising: enabling a user to select one or more programming language object fragments from a library of programming language object fragments, each programming language object fragment comprising a programming logic routine for a process control entity; displaying the one or more selected programming language object fragments within a graphical programming language interface display; enabling the user to configure a graphical programming language object for a process control entity from the one or more selected programming language object fragments within the graphical programming language interface display; storing the configured graphical programming language object as a configuration file; formatting data of the graphical programming language object according to a first schema associated with a reporting document to form formatted graphical programming language object data; mapping the formatted graphical programming language object data to a second schema associated with the configuration database to form mapped graphical programming language object data; populating data fields of the reporting document with the mapped graphical programming language object data; and sending the mapped graphical programming language object data to the configuration database.