Patent ID: 8392845

Claim:
A method to control information presented to a process plant operator, the method comprising: presenting a process plant display including display elements; presenting a dynamic attention user interface when a user selectable element of the process plant display is activated by the process plant operator, wherein the dynamic attention user interface is to be used by the process plant operator to adjust a first importance level associated with a first one of the display elements, wherein the first importance level determines how the first display element is displayed relative to a second one of the display elements; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has less significance than a second importance level assigned to the second display element, modifying the process plant display to diminish an appearance of the first display element relative to an appearance of the second display element; and when the first importance level assigned to the first display element has more significance than the second importance level assigned the second display element, modifying the process plant display to highlight the appearance of the first display element relative to the appearance of the second display element.