Process control system with a charging function

US8086325B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Fischer · Zusmarshausen, DE
• Martin Glaser · Bergkamen, DE
• Oliver Kaiser · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Hans-Jürgen Sauer · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Thomas Schoch · Ettlingen, DE
• Rainer Speh · Weiterstadt, DE
• Michael Unkelbach · Buckenhof, DE
• Steffen Wagner · Burbach, DE
• Horst Walz · Neuenbürg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2004
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2026

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention relates to a process control system comprising a calculating unit enabling a charge value (W) to be determined from operations occurring in the process control system. Preferably, said process control system comprises a process control computer with a web server and a computer which is used to access the processes control computer via Internet. The charging value (W) is especially a service fee which is to be paid to an application service provider by a user of the process control system.