Graphical interconnection of hardware signals

US8683364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Franz-Josef Menzl · Greding, DE
• Ralf Mildenberger · Schutterwald, DE
• Pablo Munoz Ibarra · Erlangen, DE
• Axel Platz · Hersbruck, DE
• Johanna Schmidt · Burghausen, DE
• Wilhelm Wehrfritz · Fairview Avenue, DE
• Markus Weinlander · Happurg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 13, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

A system and a method for graphical interconnection of hardware signals of a device, (e.g., a controller device) are provided. The graphical interconnection can now be implemented in a simple manner so that a user can perform this function intuitively and without knowledge of the address convention used in the engineering system. This may be achieved by the inventive system and by the inventive method by the hardware signals being interconnected graphically with program elements of a programming environment using drag & drop features in a graphical user interface.