US 11,774,927 B2
Methods and apparatus to provide a role-based user interface
Bryan Michael Jones, Cedar Park, TX (US); Cindy A. Scott, Georgetown, TX (US); Molly Marie Firkins, Cedar Park, TX (US); Dan Halver Ussing, Georgetown, TX (US); and James R. Balentine, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Dec. 17, 2014, as Appl. No. 14/574,025.
Application 14/574,025 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/048,844, filed on Oct. 8, 2013, granted, now 10,444,949.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/711,105, filed on Oct. 8, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/711,110, filed on Oct. 8, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2015/0105878 A1, Apr. 16, 2015
Int. Cl. G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 15/02 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4188 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25067 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31418 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31467 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31472 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32128 (2013.01); Y02P 90/02 (2015.11)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a display device to depict a user interface for accessing information in a process control system; and
one or more processors configured to:
establish a log-in session for a user;
determine an organizational role of the user, wherein the organizational role includes a set of responsibilities and privileges within an organization associated with the process control system;
receive, via the user interface, a selection of an object in the process control system;
receive object information for the selected object in the process control system during the session, wherein the object represents a physical device operating in the process control system;
determine whether the object information, defining a subset of information available for the object, is qualifying information based on the organizational role of the user;
display, via a first screen, the object information via the user interface when the object information is qualifying information, wherein the object information is not displayed via the user interface when the object information is not qualifying information, so that different subsets of the information for the object are displayed to two users having different respective organizational roles, the object information defining a context for retrieving further information related to the process control system;
identify, based on the organizational role and relevance to the context, a navigation path interconnecting a plurality of screens including the first screen, a second screen, and at least one other screen, wherein each of the plurality of screens corresponds to a different respective cluster of information related to the process control system, for the determined organizational role, each of the clusters selected from a group including visualizations, business data, logic, health, knowledge, and I/O devices;
provide, in the first screen, a control for directly navigating to the second screen from the first screen, wherein the control is not provided to users with organization roles other the determined organization role of the user;
and transition to the second screen in response to the user activating the control.