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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110098829 | SAFETY CONTROLLER A safety controller (10) having at least one input (18) for the connection of a sensor (20), at least one output (22) for the connection of an actuator (24), at least one communication interface (30) for the connection of a furt... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20100262262 | Contents Recording System, Contents Recording Control Method, and Recording Medium Having Contents Recording Control Program Recorded Thereon In order to synchronize the timings at which a plurality of IC recorders start recording contents, a contents recording system including a plurality of IC recorders includes first and second preparation portions to allow all of the plurality of IC recorders to make tran... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20090254197 | Systems and methods for peer-to-peer control using an input/output network System (200) and method (400) for enabling peer-to-peer communications between controllers (2041, . . . , 204N, 2221, . . . , 222N) of at least two control systems (202, 218). T... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090240346 | Ethernet Virtualization Using Hardware Control Flow Override A method of Ethernet virtualization using hardware control flow override. The method comprises providing, at a first logical entity of a first programmable logic device, control signals used for performing control-flow, selectively routing the control signals to a secon... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090210754 | MEDICAL SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM A medical support control system comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; and a manipulation display device shared by the first controller and the second controller, and alternately displaying... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090182437 | Method for operating and monitoring a control device, corresponding operating/monitoring device, control device and machine with such a control device, and uses of the method together with data storage media There is described a method, wherein an interpreter program is executed on a control device and is adapted to access scripts having display components and program architectures. Said program architectures are enabled to access operating data of the firmware of the contr... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090171471 | MONITORING AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINES A monitoring and control apparatus for monitoring and controlling computer numerical control (CNC) machines. The monitoring and control apparatus includes a monitoring and control device, a movement control card, and a movement control daughter card. The movement contro... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20080243267 | Method for identifying critical features as a function of process The method for identifying critical features as a function of process provides a way to identify critical features associated with a particular part, and to relate the effect of performing repair processes on the identified critical features. The method includes identif... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080208362 | SCALABILITY RELATED TO CONTROLLER ENGINE INSTANCES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates providing manageability within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080208365 | DYNAMIC VERSIONING UTILIZING MULTIPLE CONTROLLER ENGINE INSTANCES TO LIMIT COMPLICATIONS The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates deploying data within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080208364 | LANGUAGE-BASED ORGANIZATION OF CONTROLLER ENGINE INSTANCES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing multiple computer languages within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller eng... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080208363 | PRIORITIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH CONTROLLER ENGINE INSTANCES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates management within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080208361 | DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING USING VIRTUAL CONTROLLER INSTANCES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates enabling efficient load allocation within an industrial automation environment. A controller with a processing capability can be associated with an industrial automation environment. A balance c... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080183303 | Operator interface device for HMI system The operator interface device for an HMI system provides for generic, simple communication between Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software and an operator workstation. The device has at least one signaling device, at least one serial communication port, and an Ethernet p... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080161940 | Framework for parallel business object processing The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for performing parallel processing on a set of business object actions forming a batch process. The batch process may be performed by compiling a group of independent work packages, each work package repre... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080133030 | Process control system A function block used in another process control system is previously associated with an data item by taking the function block being as data on a same rank as the data item. A definition-information generating section previously generates definition information about t... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080133029 | Method For Interlinking Technical Data And System For Operating And Observing An Industrial Plant In a method for processing process data of a technical plant, documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats are fed to a documentation generator (7), these documentation data are extracted by means of the documentation generator (7 | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080125874 | NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEM A numerical control system improves safety when asynchronously operating systems are operated as a single control unit. A machine control system outputs a command generated by interpreting a program with a command number assigned thereto, sends it to a collision detecti... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080125873 | System And Method Of Configuring A Control System For A Plurality Of Devices In a method and system of configuring a control system for a plurality of devices (12) of different types, each device has at least one operating parameter. At least one operating parameter setting is stored in a memory for each device. The operating parameter se... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080087663 | HOME APPLIANCES PROVIDED WITH CONTROL SYSTEMS WHICH MAY BE ACTUATED FROM A REMOTE LOCATION A self-contained refrigerator and oven, for refrigerating and cooking food in the same enclosed chamber, which can be actuated by the operator from a variety of remote locations around the world via telephone or the internet. The heating element may be a microwave unit ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080065236 | Implantable Medical Device Management System A suite of applications is provided for the administration of implantable medical devices, particularly implantable therapeutic substance infusion devices. The applications may be accessed over a public network, such as the Internet, and may be run using middleware. The... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080052632 | Methods for remote process control with networked digital data processors and a virtual machine environment A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device an... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080039956 | Arrangement of Appliances for Process Control The invention relates to an arrangement of devices, such as, measuring devices or actuators, which are associated with process technology, and uni-directional or bidirectional data exchange with a central point, such as a control center or display device. A transmitting... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080015712 | VIRTUALIZATION OF A GLOBAL INTERRUPT QUEUE A method, system, and article of manufacture for processing virtual interrupts in a logically partitioned system are provided. An intelligent virtual global interrupt queue (virtual GIQ) that may be associated with a plurality of virtual processors running in a logical ... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070282458 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND MONITORING CONTROL SYSTEM A control device includes a CPU generating a control instruction for a control apparatus according to an instruction inputted from an OPS or a server and a radio communication unit performing a radio communication with each of the control apparatuses and measurement app... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070270979 | Control device and method of operating the control device A control device contains a plurality of controller chips connected in parallel on a data side, a common signal output, and a change-over unit. The controller chips are coupled on an output side to the common signal output through the change-over unit. A plurality of di... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070233281 | MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A system, method and computer program for programming a medical device to administer a medication to a patient includes the medical device, a scanner that may be associated with a point of care (POC) system, and a medication management unit (MMU). A computer in the POC ... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070226290 | Intelligent grid system The future of the utility industry will be defined by how its leaders can transform the grid from a “passive” network of cables, wires, poles, and other hardware to a self-aware and fully controllable grid system—an Intelligent Grid System (IGS). We will discuss a... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070179632 | MULTIPROCESSOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CYCLES, FOR EXAMPLE FOR COMPETITION BICYCLES An electronic control system for cycles, for use with a set of sensors, a set of actuators, and a set of control members associated to a cycle. The system having a first processor unit for processing and displaying information; a second processor unit for communication ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070168048 | Secure processor supporting multiple security functions A secure processor such as a trusted platform module supports multiple security functions within a single secure processing environment. For example, the secure processor may be configured to perform functions in accordance with the TPM specification and to perform othe... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070142946 | Method for the start-up of numerical controls of machine tools or production machinery and numerical control for machine tools or production machinery A method for the start-up of a numerical control of machine tools or production machinery, wherein the numerical control includes a main computer and a follow-up device, which are connected with each other via a data transmission network, wherein the follow-up device is... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070129814 | Industrial controller and method for providing an industrial controller The present invention relates to a generic industrial controller that is easily configurable for different applications. By combining the power supply and by using standard connectors, the controller assembly fits nicely in a convenient economical standard electrical bo... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070093915 | PARALLEL-TO-SERIAL CONVERTER Method and system on an aircraft for converting plural data inputs and plural data outputs from a parallel format to a serial format is provided. The system includes an integrated software module that accepts plural variable number of inputs and generates a plural varia... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070050050 | Information processing system An information processing system, which processes information based on setting information, having: a first apparatus; a second apparatus; and a management apparatus, wherein the first apparatus includes sections which transmit a first device information and a first set... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070050049 | Control device with two processors A control device with two processors includes: a circuit substrate; a first central processing unit disposed on the circuit substrate to receive a control signal for controlling the operation of a first device; a second central processing unit disposed on the circuit su... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070010898 | Scalable motion control system A control system includes a clustered architecture having a master controller, a central control section including one or more first remote controllers under direct control of the master controller, and a distributed control section including a cluster controller contro... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060293763 | Process analysis tool Methods and apparatus for graphing data associated with a manufacturing process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus enable a person to select variables and statistical functions from a plurality of manufacturing process variables and a plurality of statistical func... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060282646 | Software selectable adjustment of SIMD parallelism Selective power control of one or more processing elements matches a degree of parallelism to requirements of a task performed in a highly parallel programmable data processor. For example, when program operations require less than the full width of the data path, a sof... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060271204 | Hot Reprogrammability of Building Automation Devices Systems and methods for implementing hot reprogrammability of building automation devices are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment a method to soft-update a building automation device may comprise issuing a signal to the building automation device in a response to an e... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060265084 | Internet washing machine and method for operating the same An Internet washing machine is disclosed. The washing machine comprises a communication modem connected to a communication network for transmitting/receiving data over the communication network, a display unit for displaying whether the washing machine is communicable, ... | 11/23/2006 |
