JPH0695923A - Data collecting terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a data collecting terminal equipment capable of preventing the generation of an interruption in data collecting work and eliminating the necessity of complicating the structure of a program to be used for the equipment itself. CONSTITUTION:The data collecting terminal equipment 33 connected to a host machine 31 through a network 32 is provided with two control parts 41, 42 to be independently controlled by respective programs A, B. These control parts 41, 42 are time-dividedly driven by a program execution managing mechanism 43. The 1st control part 41 is used for data communication with the host machine 31 and the 2nd control part 42 is used for the collection or the like of data from a data collector 34. The 1st and 2nd areas 48, 47 corresponding to the control parts 41, 42 are arranged on a display screen 35 so as to execute interactive data processing.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data collection terminal device for collecting data such as safety test data, and more particularly to a data collection terminal device in a distributed processing system in which a plurality of terminals are connected by a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 2 shows an example of the relationship between a host machine and a data collecting terminal device for collecting data by distributed processing in the related art. Host machine 11
Is provided with a host management data storage unit 12 including a magnetic disk storing host management data. The extraction unit 13 is adapted to extract a file of host management data necessary for collection and temporarily store this in the data file storage unit 14. The file of the stored host management data is used for the data collection terminal device 15 as necessary.
It is transferred 16 to the side.

On the data collection terminal device 15 side, the transferred file is stored in the data file storage unit 17. Then, the data collection program execution unit 18 uses the stored host management data to collect data. The phase of the file from the host machine 11 to the data collection terminal device 15 has been described above, but the reverse is also performed.

FIG. 3 shows the relationship between another conventional data collecting terminal device and a host machine. Of the host management data stored in the host management data storage unit 12 of the host machine 21, necessary data is extracted by the host program execution unit 22. Then, it is sent to the data collection program execution unit 25 of the data collection terminal device 24 by the data communication 23 and used for data collection. From the data collection terminal device 24 to the host machine 2
The data transfer for 1 was performed in the same manner.

The execution of data collection in the conventional data collection terminal device has been described above. In any case,
The data collection terminal devices 15 and 24 perform various operations such as data collection by executing one program respectively. Therefore, the data collection terminal device 1
When performing other work in 5, 24, that is, when referring to the host management data or performing the operation, one of the following two methods is adopted.

In the first method, the data collection work by the data collection program execution units 18, 25 is temporarily interrupted, and the necessary work for the host machines 11, 21 is executed by the corresponding execution unit (not shown). It was Also,
In the second method, assuming various situations that can be considered in advance, all the various functions are incorporated so that the data collection program execution units 18 and 24 can execute these.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

However, the former method has a problem that the data collection work itself is temporarily interrupted when other work is performed. Further, in the latter method, since the program is configured so as to handle all the work, there is a problem that the structure is complicated and the performance and reliability are deteriorated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a data collection terminal device which does not interrupt data collection work and which does not require a complicated program structure for the device.

[0009]

According to the present invention, a display screen of a CRT or the like, display area dividing means for dividing the display screen into a plurality of display areas, and data for display in each of these divided display areas. The data collection terminal device is equipped with a plurality of control units for supplying the data and a program execution management unit for executing the control programs used by these control units in a time-division manner.

That is, in the present invention, the display screen can be divided into a plurality of divided displays, a plurality of control units are arranged corresponding to the respective display areas, and each of these control units is operated by an independent program. . Then, these programs are simultaneously executed in a time-sharing manner by the program execution management means to achieve the above-mentioned object.

In the data collection terminal device of the present invention, a mutual data exchange area is provided between the plurality of control units and temporarily stores data to be exchanged between the control units. Data can be exchanged between the control units. Further, if a data collector is arranged, data can be collected.

[0012]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 shows a data collection terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention and a host machine connected thereto. The host machine 31 is a network 32
Via one or more data collection terminal devices (1 in the figure
Only one is illustrated) 33. The data collection terminal device 33 has a display screen 35 including a data collector 34 and a CRT for performing a data collection operation.

The host machine 31 is provided with a host management data storage unit 37 including a magnetic disk for storing host management data, and a host program execution unit 38 for processing the host management data.

The data collection terminal device 33 has a first control section 41 for performing data communication with the host machine 31, and a second control section 41 for performing other internal processing such as fetching data from the data collector 34. The control unit 42 includes two control units. The first controller 41 is controlled by the program A, and the second controller 42 is controlled by the program B, which is different from the program B.
Is controlled by. Under the control of the program execution management mechanism 43, the control units 41 and 42 respectively execute the programs in a time-sharing manner.

A screen management mechanism 44 exists in the data collection terminal device 33, and displays necessary information in accordance with the control of the first and second control units 41 and 42 on the display screen 35 in a multi-window format. You can Further, the data collection terminal device 33 has a mutual data exchange area 45 and a data file storage unit 46. Mutual data exchange area 45
Is a buffer memory for mutually temporarily storing data to be exchanged between the first and second control units 41 and 42. The data file storage unit 46 is connected to the second control unit 42, and inputs / outputs a data file with the second control unit 42.

In the data collection terminal device having such a configuration,
First, the operation in the case of collecting data on safety test data will be described. In this case, the program execution management mechanism 43 of the data collection terminal device 33 operates the program B for data collection. As a result, the second control unit 42 captures the safety test data from the data collector 34 and records the captured safety test data in the data file storage unit 46. At the same time, the second control unit 42 sends a display request signal requesting display to the screen management mechanism 44. When the display request signal is sent, the screen management mechanism 44 causes the second area 4 of the display screen 35 to be displayed.
Display the collected safety test data in 7.

In this state, it is assumed that it is necessary to operate the host management data on the host machine 31 side. In this case, the operator operates the host program execution unit 3 in the host machine 31 under the control of the program execution management mechanism 43.
8 Start program A for data communication with
The first control unit 41 is placed in the operating state. This makes the first
Control unit 41 communicates with the host program execution unit 38 via the network 32, and the host management data storage unit 37
The host management data stored in can be operated.

At the time of this operation, a predetermined display operation on the display screen 35 is required in order to interactively operate the host machine 31. Therefore, the first control unit 41 outputs a display request signal to the screen management mechanism 44. The screen management mechanism 44 starts the display operation for the first area 48 in the display screen 35 from this point.

Although the case of operating the host management data of the host machine 31 has been described above, the data on the host machine 31 side can be referred to in the same manner.

The host machine 3 via the first control unit 41
When the data is received from the first control unit 4
When passing from 1 to the second control unit 42, the mutual data exchange area 45 is used. That is, the first control unit 41 writes the data to be delivered to the mutual data exchange area 45 at its own data writing timing. The second control unit 42 completes the data transfer by reading the written data at its own data read timing. The mutual data exchange area 45 is also used when transmitting the data collected on the data collection terminal device 33 side to the host machine 31 side.

In the embodiment described above, the control unit has two
Although three are arranged, three or more may be arranged. In this case, the display screen may be divided into more areas accordingly.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, the display screen can be divided into a plurality of divided displays, and the control units corresponding to the respective display areas are operated in a time division manner. The parallel processing of the control unit becomes possible, and it is possible to efficiently perform not only data collection but also other work interactively. Moreover, since the programs are independent in each control unit, there is an effect that the structure of each program is relatively simple, and the programs can be easily created and revised.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a data collection terminal device and a host machine connected to the data collection terminal device by a network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a relationship between a conventional data collection terminal device and a host machine when a data file is transferred.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a relationship between a conventional data collection terminal device and a host machine when performing data communication.

[Explanation of symbols]

 31 host machine 32 network 33 data collection terminal device 34 data collector 35 display screen 41 first control unit 42 second control unit 43 program execution management mechanism 44 screen management mechanism 45 mutual data exchange area 47 second area 48 second Area of 1

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[Submission date] September 9, 1993

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[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, the display screen can be divided into a plurality of divided displays, and the control units corresponding to the respective display areas are operated in a time division manner. The parallel processing of the control unit becomes possible, and it is possible to efficiently perform not only data collection but also other work interactively. Moreover, since the programs are independent in each control unit, there is an effect that the structure of each program is relatively simple, and the programs can be easily created and revised.

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[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a data collection terminal device and a host machine connected to the data collection terminal device by a network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a relationship between a conventional data collection terminal device and a host machine when a data file is transferred.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a relationship between a conventional data collection terminal device and a host machine when performing data communication.

[Explanation of reference numerals] 31 host machine 32 network 33 data collection terminal device 34 data collector 35 display screen 41 first control unit 42 second control unit 43 program execution management mechanism 44 screen management mechanism 45 mutual data exchange area 47th 2nd area 48 1st area

Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁵ Identification code Office reference number FI Technical display location G06F 15/74 310 E 7218-5L

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A display screen, a display area dividing unit that divides the display screen into a plurality of display areas, a plurality of control units that supply data for display to each of these divided display areas, and A data collection terminal device, comprising: a program execution management unit that executes a control program used by each control unit in a time division manner. 2. The data according to claim 1, further comprising a mutual data exchange area which is arranged between the plurality of control units and temporarily stores data to be exchanged between the control units. Collection terminal device. 3. The data collection terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a data collector that collects data.