Patent ID: 8269620

Claim:
A prioritized alarm trend summary display method operating on a computer, comprising: graphically displaying a prioritized alarm trend list in conjunction with a prioritized alarm summary list with a plurality of highlighting and filtering functions, and organizing a plurality of rows in said prioritized alarm trend list in a top-to-bottom manner; prioritizing a plurality of alarm indicators over time within said plurality of rows in said prioritized alarm trend list in a right-to-left horizontal arrangement with qualitative trend arrows indicating a qualitative direction of a parameter that last alarmed in said plurality of rows in said alarm trend list aligning said plurality of prioritized alarm indicators with a most recent real-time alarm appearing on a right side of said prioritized alarm trend list and a historical representation of said plurality of alarm indicators appearing on a left side of said prioritized alarm trend list, said plurality of prioritized alarm indicators organized logically by location so that said plurality of prioritized alarm indicators are scalable to any level in equipment hierarchy; and selecting at least one of said plurality of prioritized alarm indicators in said prioritized alarm trend list, so that a corresponding alarm description item is highlighted and displayed in said alarm summary list, if said alarm is active, thereby allowing an operator to see when said alarm occur, their sequence, relation and priority, which helps said operator cope with an inevitable alarm flood.