Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2003-05-29
2008-05-06
Vincent, David (Department: 2121)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
C700S099000, C718S102000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07369912
ABSTRACT:
A process plant control system includes a batch execution engine that spawns or creates an individual batch process application in a separate application process space for each batch to be run within a process plant. The batch execution engine includes communication software for communicating with batch operator interfaces used to set up batch runs, a master process equipment model reflecting the current state of the equipment and a batch execution manager that creates individual batch processes and spawns each of the individual batch processes to run in a separate application process space. Each of the created batch processes includes batch logic that implements the batch run specified by the user, a copy of the process plant equipment model used to select equipment within the plant and a communication interface for communicating with controllers and other runtime equipment to implement the batch as well as for communicating with the batch execution manager.
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Deitz David L.
Irwin William G.
Pettus Nathan W.
Sherriff Godfrey R.
Wilson Grant
Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc.
Marshall & Gerstein & Borun LLP
Norton Jennifer L
Vincent David
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