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Information technology system for the definition, optimization and control of processes

Patent 6778863 Issued on August 17, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject June 8, 2020. 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.

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Application

No. 09590744 filed on 06/08/2000

US Classes:

700/32, Specific criteria of system performance700/83, Having operator control interface (e.g., control/display console)700/10, Of analog controllers700/65, Operator control of remotely located element700/28, Optimization or adaptive control700/9, Supervisory control700/17, Operator interface (e.g., display with control)704/8Multilingual or national language support

Examiners

Primary: Patel, Ramesh
Assistant: Pham, Thomas

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 196 39 424 DE 03/01/1997

International Class

G05B 1302

Abstract

The invention relates to a computer application in the field of control, monitoring, modification and/or optimization of processes which comprise real process sequences of discrete events, so-called “discrete event dynamic systems”, which cannot usually be described by systems of (differential) equations. Such processes occur for example in technical developments as well as in other business activities in the industrial or tertiary sector. Such a real process is reflected in a process model which is connected to the real process via at least one interface. If the interface(s) is/are bi-directional, real process data can be transmitted into the model directly, i.e. without data conversion, and thus the real process can be monitored; in the model, simulations can be carried out with changed process data; and finally if the result of the simulation is successful, process modifications can be transferred directly to the real process.

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  • Ball S: “XML Support for TCL” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual TCL/TK Conference, Sep. 18, 1998, Seiten 109-119-119.
  • P. Martin “The Development of an Object-Oriented, Discrete-Event Simulation Language Using Java”, Dec. 2, 1997.
  • D.Nicol et al.: The Ides Framework: A Case Study in Development . . . , Dec. 7, 1997.
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