Method and apparatus for improved inspection and classification of attributes of a workpiece

US6901352B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• COE Newnes/McGehee, ULC · CA

Inventors

• Steve Woods · Salmon Arm, CA
• Michael McGuire · Pittsburgh, US
• Harry Ogloff · Salmon Arm, CA
• Zvonimir Sko{hacek over (c)}ić · Salmon Arm, CA
• Emeric Johnson · Salmon Arm, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2003
• Grant date: May 31, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N23/18
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A generic, scalable consumer subsystem/producer subsystem interface controller for exchanging data between at least one producer subsystem configured to produce a set of services characterized in a producer generated data set, and at least on consumer subsystem configured to consume the set of services, including an object-oriented producer application program interface configured for use on a multi-threaded, client-server operating system, wherein producer routines are configured to: initialize producer server objects maid producer client objects; receive requests for data from a consumer subsystem via the producer client objects; send acknowledgments to a consumer subsystem in response to requests from the consumer subsystem via the producer server objects; send data to a consumer subsystem in response to requests from the consumer subsystem via the producer server objects; and wherein consumer routines are configured to: initialize consumer server objects and consumer client objects; send requests for data to a producer subsystem via the consumer server objects; receive acknowledgments from a producer subsystem in response to requests from the producer subsystem via the consumer…