Patents by Inventor Scott Volk
Scott Volk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8060222Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Brian Mackay, Mark Johnson, Scott Volk, Kenneth A. Burke, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 8056056Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 8028275Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Brian Mackay, Mark Johnson, Scott Volk, Kenneth A. Burke, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 8028272Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Brian Mackay, Mark Johnson, Scott Volk, Kenneth A. Burke, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 7984420Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Brian Mackay, Mark Johnson, Scott Volk, Kenneth A. Burke, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 7890927Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Brian Mackay, Mark Johnson, Scott Volk, Kenneth A. Burke, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20100223593Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20100222902Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090132996Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090125129Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian Mackay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090125130Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090125128Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090125131Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian Mackay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090118846Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20090118845Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian MacKay, Steven Dardinski
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Patent number: 7272815Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Keith Eldridge, Paul Meskonis, Robert Hall, Kenneth A. Burke, Scott Volk, Mark Johnson, Brian Mackay, Steven Dardinski
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Publication number: 20070011306Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to monitor and analyze activity occurring on a networked computer system. In some embodiments, a method is provided for capturing, in a data structure, at least a portion of a notification describing a network event provided by a node on a computer network, identifying a data element (e.g., an IP address of the node) within the notification, and updating an index and/or summary based on the data element. The data structure may be stored in a file system maintained on a site, and sites may exchange information related to the notification data stored on each. In some embodiments, a query which is issued to a site may be processed using data transferred from other sites, and/or may be split into one or more additional queries which may be transmitted for processing to other sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Network Intelligence CorporationInventors: Bernard Brady, Mark Johnson, Matthew Stevens, Scott Volk
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Publication number: 20070011309Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to monitor and analyze activity occurring on a networked computer system. In some embodiments, a method is provided for capturing, in a data structure, at least a portion of a notification describing a network event provided by a node on a computer network, identifying a data element (e.g., an IP address of the node) within the notification, and updating an index and/or summary based on the data element. The data structure may be stored in a file system maintained on a site, and sites may exchange information related to the notification data stored on each. In some embodiments, a query which is issued to a site may be processed using data transferred from other sites, and/or may be split into one or more additional queries which may be transmitted for processing to other sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Network Intelligence CorporationInventors: Bernard Brady, Mark Johnson, Matthew Stevens, Scott Volk
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Publication number: 20070011305Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to monitor and analyze activity occurring on a networked computer system. In some embodiments, a method is provided for capturing, in a data structure, at least a portion of a notification describing a network event provided by a node on a computer network, identifying a data element (e.g., an IP address of the node) within the notification, and updating an index and/or summary based on the data element. The data structure may be stored in a file system maintained on a site, and sites may exchange information related to the notification data stored on each. In some embodiments, a query which is issued to a site may be processed using data transferred from other sites, and/or may be split into one or more additional queries which may be transmitted for processing to other sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Network Intelligence CorporationInventors: Bernard Brady, Mark Johnson, Matthew Stevens, Scott Volk
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Publication number: 20070011308Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided to monitor and analyze activity occurring on a networked computer system. In some embodiments, a method is provided for capturing, in a data structure, at least a portion of a notification describing a network event provided by a node on a computer network, identifying a data element (e.g., an IP address of the node) within the notification, and updating an index and/or summary based on the data element. The data structure may be stored in a file system maintained on a site, and sites may exchange information related to the notification data stored on each. In some embodiments, a query which is issued to a site may be processed using data transferred from other sites, and/or may be split into one or more additional queries which may be transmitted for processing to other sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Network Intelligence CorporationInventors: Bernard Brady, Mark Johnson, Matthew Stevens, Scott Volk