Self organizing industrial control system using bidding process
Patent 6091998 Issued on July 18, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: 
September 30, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
September 30, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod and apparatus for resource constraint scheduling Process control system using a process control strategy distributed among multiple control elements Method of allocating work in capacity planning Density-based emergent scheduling system Patent #: 5953229 Inventors
AssigneeApplicationNo. 164204 filed on 09/30/1998US Classes:700/100, Job scheduling700/103Constraints or rulesExaminersPrimary: Grant, WilliamAssistant: Rapp, Chad Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 019/00AbstractAn industrial control system associates an autonomous control unit with each piece of equipment in an industrial process, the autonomous control units having a model of the equipment's operation and data indicating constraints on the equipment's operation. A product to be produced is abstracted as a set of machine independent steps and performance of these steps bid upon by the autonomous control units according constraints models and internal goals. Bids having conflicting requirements may generate counterbids until a completed plan for the production of the product is generated. | |
