Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070135944
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The method as in Claim 14, further comprising creating the block by using a block object to select the at least one variable and the at least one attribute.
I am little fuzzy on this but DMC diagnostics and DMC Poll both allow some like this.
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Claim 16
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The method as in Claim 14, wherein providing comprises at least one of a continuous basis, about a real-time basis, a periodic basis and a frequent basis.
DMC Poll does all three methods.
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Claim 17
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The method as in Claim 14, wherein displaying comprises using at least one of a bar graph, a trend plot, a histogram, a pie chart, a line graph, a scatter graph, a performance plot and a pareto plot.
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See DMC Scope
Claim 18
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e method as in Claim 18, wherein the displaying further comprises accepting a user input for modifying properties of the display.
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When you drop a control onto Labview or Visual Basic you get a property dialog allowing you to modify how the control looks.
Claim 20
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An apparatus for providing a summary for at least one process of a system, the apparatus comprising:
means for accepting input data descriptive of the at least one process and for grouping as a block at least one variable of the input data with at least one attribute for the variable; and display means for reading the block and producing output to display the summary for the at least one process.
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I am not sure what is new here