公开(公告)号：US5388268A

公开(公告)日：1995-02-07

申请号：US234496

申请日：1994-04-28

申请人： Brian W. Beach ,  Anand Deshpande ,  Wendy L. Fong ,  Pankaj K. Garg ,  Audrey K. Ishizaki ,  Thuan Q. Pham

发明人： Brian W. Beach ,  Anand Deshpande ,  Wendy L. Fong ,  Pankaj K. Garg ,  Audrey K. Ishizaki ,  Thuan Q. Pham

IPC分类号： G06F11/30 ,  G06F11/32 ,  G06F11/34 ,  G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/328 ,  G06F11/322 ,  Y10S707/99934 ,  Y10S715/966 ,  Y10S715/97

摘要： A visual display system providing an operator simultaneous descriptions of the states of many cooperating sub-processes working on a task and residing in various instruments in a distributed system. A server process is connected to receive and translate status signals from the sub-processes into a standardized language. The translated signals are interpreted by a screen manipulation program. A monitor, connected to the server process, displays the interpreted signals to show the states of the sub-processes. The visual indication on the monitor includes a plurality of representations of indicator lights. Each indicator light indicates the state of one of the sub-processes. Next to each indicator light is an identifier which identifies the sub-process represented by the indicator light. The visual indication also includes two types of meters. One type of meter indicates the speed of one of the sub-processes and the other indicates the amount of data used at any given time by one of the sub-processes. Finally, a picture of each of the operators using the system is also included in the indication. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented to monitor a rule-based programming environment using the X Window System.

摘要翻译： 视觉显示系统，提供操作员同时描述在工作在任务上并驻留在分布式系统中的各种仪器中的许多合作子过程的状态。 连接服务器进程以将状态信号从子进程接收并转换为标准化语言。 翻译的信号由屏幕操纵程序解释。 连接到服务器进程的监视器显示解释的信号以显示子进程的状态。 监视器上的视觉指示包括指示灯的多个表示。 每个指示灯指示其中一个子进程的状态。 每个指示灯旁边是标识由指示灯表示的子过程的标识符。 视觉指示还包括两种类型的米。 一种类型的仪表表示其中一个子进程的速度，另一种表示通过其中一个子进程在任何给定时间使用的数据量。 最后，使用该系统的每个操作员的图片也包括在指示中。 在一个实施例中，本发明被实现为使用X Window系统监视基于规则的编程环境。