US 6,983,267 B2 | ||
System having a model-based user interface for operating and monitoring a device and a method therefor | ||
Mehdi Hamadou, Erlangen (Germany); Werner Hoffmann, Herzogenaurach (Germany); and Josef Meixner, Erlangen (Germany) | ||
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany) | ||
Filed on Jan. 30, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/771,631. | ||
Application 09/771631 is a continuation of application No. PCT/DE99/02227, filed on Jul. 19, 1999. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 198 34 456 (DE), filed on Jul. 30, 1998. | ||
Prior Publication US 2002/0059050 A1, May 16, 2002 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 15/18 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 706—59 | 14 Claims |
1. An information, operating or monitoring system for a real device having real subcomponents, the system comprising:
a data processing device, comprising a software model including virtual components, wherein the software model represents
the real device, and wherein the virtual components are linked to each other in correspondence to relationships of or within
the real device; and
a display for displaying views associated with the virtual components;
wherein at least one of the virtual components and the views include access data for accessing at least one of local information
data and global information data, which are associated with the virtual components,
wherein the virtual components comprise a virtual device and virtual subcomponents, which represent the real device and the
real subcomponents, respectively, wherein the virtual device and the virtual subcomponents are designed as at least one of
data and data processing programs,
wherein the virtual device and the virtual subcomponents are linked to each other in correspondence to at least one of operational
relationships, physical relationships, and technical relationships of or within the real device, and
wherein technologically different ones of the virtual subcomponents are assigned to the virtual device, wherein technologically
structured subordinate components are assigned to each of the virtual subcomponents, and wherein the access data are structured
for navigating a user through the virtual device, through the technologically different virtual subcomponents, and through
the subordinate components.
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