Personalized plant asset data representation and search system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9323247-B2
Application number	US-85578907-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2007
Priority date	Sep 14, 2007
Publication date	Apr 26, 2016
Grant date	Apr 26, 2016

Abstract

A process control system collects data, or status information, pertaining to assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant. The collected information may then be accessed by a user through a user interface routine displaying a graphical user interface to that user's computer. An asset data and search expert tracks user interaction with plant data by, for example, tracking the types of search fields a user most frequently searches with or the type of information a user more frequently browses for. The expert automatically profiles this tracked information to develop user preferences that are later used in personalizing the reporting of asset data, personalizing searching for asset data, and personalizing the results of such searches.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of reporting status information, the method comprising:
receiving, at a process control user interface, a user request from a user and identifying an area or device within a process plant based on the user request, wherein the area or device is associated with a first plurality of status indicators representing a measurement of health or performance of the area or device, each of the first plurality of status indicators representing a status of the area or device;
receiving, from a data source in response to the user request, user-personalized status indicators regarding the area or device, wherein the user-personalized status indicators represent a personalized selection, with respect to the user, of a subset of the first plurality of status indicators based on profile data associated with the user;
prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators based on historical user preference data of the user to identify a subset of high priority user-personalized status indicators within the user-personalized status indicators, wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators comprises:
(i) automatically tracking user interaction data representing a frequency with which a user has viewed a plurality of previously displayed status indicators, where the plurality of previously displayed status indicators may include one or more of the user-personalized status indicators and where such user tracking occurs automatically without user initiated activation using an internal user interaction tracker capable of uninterrupted tracking of user interactions,
(ii) profiling historical data, in response to tracking the user interaction data, to identify the historical user preference data, the historical user preference data identifying one or more of the user-personalized status indicators as correlated to the user based on interaction time with one or more of the previously displayed status indicators, and
(iii) designating the one or more user-personalized status indicators correlated to the user as the high priority user-personalized status indicators;

generating a user-tailored report that includes the high priority user-personalized status indicators ranked above other of the user-personalized status indicators; and
displaying, to the user, the user-tailored report that includes the high priority user-personalized status indicators ranked above other of the user-personalized status indicators.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interaction data is tracked during a search for the status information regarding an area or device within the process plant.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interaction data represents a number of times a user interacts with the plurality of previously displayed status indicators.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interaction data represents the frequency within which one or more of the plurality of previously displayed status indicators has been accessed by a user.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first plurality of status indicators comprises a health index, a variability index, a usability index, or a performance index.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first plurality of status indicators comprises an alert status or urgent event status.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising continuously tracking the user interaction data.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising tracking the user interaction data in response to a remote initiation signal.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators identifies the high priority user-personalized status indicators and lower priority user-personalized status indicators, and wherein the report displays only the high priority user-personalized status indicators.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators identifies the high priority user-personalized status indicators and lower priority user-personalized status indicators, and wherein the report displays both the high priority user-personalized status indicators and the lower priority user-personalized status indicators.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators comprises prioritizing based on a single profile parameter of the historical user preference data.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:
ranking the user-personalized status indicators based on a first profile parameter to determine a first data ranking; and
ranking the first data ranking based on at least one second profile parameter to produce a second data ranking.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein prioritizing the user-personalized status indicators comprises prioritizing based on multiple profile parameters of the historical user preference data.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user request is a first search request, wherein the user-personalized status indicators contain initial search results data in response to the first search request, wherein generating the user-tailored report comprises generating a search report containing the high priority user-personalized status indicators, and wherein displaying the user-tailored report comprises displaying the search report containing the high priority user-personalized status indicators.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising displaying the user-personalized status indicators separately from the search report.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the high priority user-personalized status indicators represent predicted search results in response to the first search request.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:
receiving a second search request from the user, the second search request being received after the first search request;
prioritizing the high priority user-personalized status indicators of the search report based on the second search request to create a second search report; and
displaying the second search report to a user.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the second search report contains only a subset of the high priority user-personalized status indicators of the search report.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the second search report contains all of the high priority user-personalized status indicators of the search report but where the priority of the high priority user-personalized status indicators has been rearranged in the second search report.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the historical user preference data comprises information regarding past user access to a status indicator regarding an area or device within the process plant.

21. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
correlating the user-personalized status indicators to other correlated status indicators for at least one other area or device in the process plant, such that the subset of high priority user-personalized status indicators includes one or more of the other correlated status indicators and such that the status report displayed to the user includes one or more of the other correlated status indicators,
displaying a report of the other correlated status indicators to the user.

22. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the report to the user comprises:
displaying at least one graphical illustration of the report illustrating a graphical plot relating to the high priority user-personalized status indicators.

23. The method of claim 22 , further comprising displayi

Assignees

• Dillon Steven R
• Rome Gregory H
• Fisher Rosemount Systems Inc

Inventors

• Dillon Steven R
• Rome Gregory H

Classifications

• G06F16/337

  Profile generation, learning or modification · CPC title

• G05B23/0272 Primary

  Presentation of monitored results, e.g. selection of status reports to be displayed; Filtering information to the user · CPC title

• G06F17/30702

  Physics · mapped topic