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Method and apparatus for providing a standard control system with custom application capability

US7313448B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 2005
Grant dateDec 25, 2007
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Expiry dateFeb 16, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05B15/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system and method for managing the activities of a process. The system includes a first computer that uses standard control classes to manage the activities according to a standard control strategy. A second computer is used by a user to input custom data. A custom application program uses the custom data to automatically develop a customized control strategy as a custom class that operates as an inherited class of a base class of the standard classes to augment the standard control strategy with the customized control strategy in the management of the activities.

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