Patent ID: 6356859
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G05B,G06F

Abstract:
A system for operating alongside a user controlled process for monitoring the activities of such a process, the system comprising:a modifiable software progression route master profile file defining a master profile of envisaged routes of progression through the process in terms of process codes corresponding to codes generated by the process at steps of the process; means for coupling the system to the process to obtain therefrom and sequentially store the process codes; means for comparing the stored sequence of process codes against the master profile to determine the position in the process at which each process code was generated and the appropriateness of the performance of the process step associated with the process code concerned at the determined process position; and means for writing data representing the determined position and appropriateness for each process code to a user activity profile file for recording the activities of the process for the user concerned.