Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-19
2003-09-16
Picard, Leo (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S182000, C716S030000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06622060
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a mounting-state display apparatus for displaying the mounting state of a device and, more particularly, to a mounting-state display apparatus for visually displaying a mounting state, in which various kinds of packages to be placed in a device are mounted thereon by using an NE-OPS (Network Element Operation System) for managing the device.
2. Description of the Related Art
Generally, an operator checks the mounting state of a transmission device and the presence or absence of an alarm by utilizing the display indicating function of an NE-OPS application program.
FIGS. 1
to
4
illustrate a process of generating a device status display image in a conventional mounting-state display apparatus for displaying the mounting states of devices.
FIG. 1
illustrates an example of the conventional mounting-state display apparatus adapted to display image display information corresponding to individual devices by combining such information to the NE-OPS application program body.
FIG. 2
illustrates the flow of an example of a display process to be performed by the apparatus of FIG.
1
.
In
FIG. 1
, reference numeral
1
designates an example of a device to be displayed (hereunder referred to as a “display object device”), e.g., a transmission device, etc., in which various kinds of packages and components are disposed.
Reference numeral
2
denotes the conventional mounting-state display apparatus comprising the following portions. A device constitution information portion
21
stores screen layout information on a screen layout for displaying mounting-state information corresponding to each of specific display object devices. The screen layout information includes information on the configuration and arrangement of units, packages, and lamps, and so forth, which are fixedly assigned and correspond to each of the display object devices. The information on the configuration and arrangement is generated by a programmer (namely, manually generated) correspondingly to each of the display object devices.
An application program portion
22
stores the source code of the program body of the NE-OPS application program to be executed for performing the setting, maintenance, and operation of the display object devices. The compilation/linkage portion
23
compiles and links the screen layout information of the display object device
1
and the source code of the NE-OPS application program to thereby generate an executable NE-OPS application program for the display object device
1
and a device constitution display linked thereto.
A storage/control portion
24
stores the generated NE-OPS application program and the generated device constitution display. Further, the storage/control portion
24
communicates with the display object device
1
to thereby obtain from the device
1
device constitution information on the presence or absence of a package mounted thereon, so that the obtained device constitution information is reflected in the generated NE-OPS application program and the device constitution display. A display portion
25
displays the device constitution display represented by information, which is provided from the storage/control portion
24
, on the screen thereof. Incidentally, various operations, such as the communication operation and the information obtaining operation, of the storage/control portion
24
are controlled by the NE-OPS application program. The same holds for examples that will be described below.
FIG. 2
illustrates the flow of an example of a process of displaying the device constitution display.
At steps S
201
and S
202
, an operator selects one of plural NE-OPS application programs, which corresponds to a specific display object device
1
, and screen layout information corresponding thereto, and then activates the selected NE-OPS application program. The storage/control portion
24
reads device constitution information from the specific display object device
1
and then correlates the read device constitution information to the screen layout information (at steps S
203
and S
204
). Subsequently, at step S
205
, the display portion
25
displays the device constitution display, which corresponds to the display object device, on the screen thereof.
FIG. 3
illustrates the constitution of an example of the conventional mounting-state display apparatus, in which image display information on each of the devices is held in a database, and in which the information is displayed by executing the NE-OPS application program through the database.
Incidentally, in the drawings to be referred to in the description of this example and in the following description, like reference numerals designate like portions of the example of FIG.
1
.
As shown in
FIG. 3
, the screen layout information corresponding to each of the display object devices
1
held in the device constitution information portion
21
is stored in the storage/control portion
24
as database information. Incidentally, the screen layout information itself is generated by an operator (namely, manually generated) even in this example, similar to the previously described example. The compilation/linkage portion
23
compiles the source code, which is read from the application program
22
, of the NE-OPS application program, which has a common managing function among the devices, and links the compiled source code to the database. The storage/control portion
24
reads the device constitution information from the display object device
1
and links the read device constitution information to the screen layout information stored in the database. The display portion
25
displays the device constitution display represented by information, which is obtained by accessing the database provided in the storage/control portion
24
, on the screen thereof.
FIG. 4
illustrates the flow of an example of a process of displaying the device constitution display of FIG.
3
.
In the case of the example of
FIG. 4
, the order of the selection of one of the application programs and the activation of the selected application program is reversed (see steps S
401
and S
402
). That is, in the case of this example, first, the NE-OPS application program, whose managing function is performed on the devices in common thereamong, is activated. Subsequently, an operator selects the screen layout information corresponding to a specific display object device
1
from pieces of screen layout information, which respectively correspond to a plurality of the devices and are registered in the database of the storage/control portion
24
. Operations following this are similar to the corresponding operations illustrated in FIG.
2
. That is, the storage/control portion
24
reads device constitution information from the specific display object device
1
and then correlates the read device constitution information to the screen layout information and, subsequently, the display portion
25
displays the device constitution display, which corresponds to the selected display object device, on the screen thereof (steps S
403
to S
405
).
As described above, in the case of the example illustrated in
FIGS. 1 and 2
, a combination of the screen layout information corresponding to each of the devices and the NE-OPS application program corresponding thereto is compiled and linked. Further, in the example illustrated in
FIGS. 3 and 4
, the database to be accessed is switched among a plurality of databases, each of which is constituted by the device constitution information corresponding to a corresponding one of the display object devices, by using the NE-OPS application program, whose managing function is performed in common thereamong. Alternatively, the information stored in the database corresponding to each of the devices is replaced with another piece of information corresponding thereto by using such an NE-OPS application program.
The mounting state of a device varies with the kind of the device. That is, the mounting position of each of units, bl
Cabrera Zoila
Muchin Katten
Picard Leo
Roseman Zavis
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