Custom properties in an application environment

US10372107B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Lorenzo Majewski · Milwaukee, US
• Norman Weatherhead · Ayr, CA
• Stephen P. Proctor · Randburg, ZA
• Phillip F. Pemberton · Randburg, ZA
• Douglas W. Reid · Mentor, US
• Michael D. Kalan · Mayfield Heights, US
• Christopher E. Stanek · Mayfield Heights, US
• Daniel S. DeYoung · Hudson, US
• Andrew R. Stump · Mentor, US
• Robert Guenther · Linden, DE
• Joachim Thomsen · Singapore, SG
• Danie Beckett · Randburg, ZA

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The disclosed subject matter comprises a design management component that facilitates managing and storing information, including respective customized information of respective entities and/or relating to objects, projects, controllers, or industrial automation systems within a project file or controller. The design management component facilitates enabling custom data, including custom metadata, to be injected by object into a project file or in a controller associated with the project file. The design management component operates with a data management component that can allow respective entities to view, edit, or delete their respective data on objects associated with a project file or controller in accordance with their respective rules. The design management component facilitates desired library management, version management, virtualization of a system for emulation and testing, data exchange between application, and application development and management in relation to controllers, devices, or components, in connection with control of industrial automation systems.