Patent ID: 7197434

Claim:
A method of generating a graphical display at a display client, the graphical display being representative of a current status of one or more operational components, there being one or more types of operational components and the graphical display being modeled with a Picture Object, one or more Equipment Unit Lists, one or more Equipment Symbols and one or more Equipment Unit Objects, wherein the Equipment Unit Objects has parameters of the one or more operational components that dynamically change, comprising: the display client requesting an update of the graphical display from a server in communication with the one or more operational components, wherein the server generates the one or more Equipment Unit Objects that have dynamically changing parameters; transmitting the one or more Equipment Unit Objects to the display client in response to the request; and at the display client, generating the graphical display by processing the transmitted one or more Equipment Unit Objects with a cache that stores the Picture Object, the one or more Equipment Unit Lists and the one or more Equipment Symbols.