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LATEST PRIOR ART
| Date | Title | Reviewer |
|---|---|---|
| 09/11/07 | CCTK PCM Telemetry Interface Reference Manual | Rick Mc Leod |
| 09/11/07 | Command and Control Toolkit Admin Manual v 2.1 | Rick Mc Leod |
| 09/11/07 | Command and Control Toolkit Developer's Manual 2.0 | Rick Mc Leod |
| 08/03/07 | Using Controller Objects | R. John Milne |
| 06/22/07 | CCTK v2.1 User Manual | Rick Mc Leod |
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Rick Mc Leod (about 1 year ago)
Hello all,
Based on my initial review of the claims and discussion, I participated in building such a system for NASA in 1989. It was called the Partial Payload Checout Unit, the first implementation of the Generic Check System.
Architecture:
SGI workstations as clients to display the sensor data
HP servers to house the primary data processing and archiving
Custom built data acquisition modules (generally single board VME unix cards).
TCP/IP connectivity. Clients housed in different buildings at KSC.
Each client could display the very near real time value of any sensor in the orbiter or a payload. The display screen of each client was built using a template that specified the sensor data, display time (digital, bar graph, dial, etc.), units of display, color (e.g., red for critical values, etc.).
In 1997, the group left McDonnel Douglas and formed: CCT.
http://www.cctcorp.com/AboutCct.htm
http://www.cctcorp.com/gde.htm
Pete Simons gave public presentations about the system at aeronautic conference at least as early as 1990.Thad McIlroy (about 1 year ago)
Claim #1 is surely the basis of all modern CIM systems. A recent example is to be found at http://www.cip4.org/documents/jdf_specifications/JDF1.3.pdf, describing the JMF subset of the JDF format specification, now being widely implemented in print manufacturing. "JMF provides the means for production components of a JDF workflow to communicate with system controllers and administrative components. It relays information about the progress of JDF jobs and gives MIS the active ability to query devices about the status of processes being executed or getting ready to be executed."Robert Conley (about 1 year ago)
Reading this I don't see how it an improvement over existing packages like Labview (http://www.ni.com/labview/) or even Visual Basic.
For example
If you use a Galil Motion Controller (http://www.galilmc.com) that interfaces through a lan link. You use the libraries to select and download data from the galil which has at least 16 I/O points. You use visual basic and the galil OCX to select and display a particular set I/O points.
The patent appears to be nothing new and is definitely obvious. PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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