Patent ID: 7496911
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for installing supervisory process control and management information system software from a central software deployment server to a remote computer in accordance with a defined supervisory process control and manufacturing information application configuration identifying particular computers for deployable objects that make up the configured application distributable across multiple networked computers, the method comprising the steps of: first specifying a covering set of non-duplicated software modules referenced by a set of objects to be deployed to a remote computer in accordance with the supervisory process control and manufacturing information application configuration; second specifying the remote computer as a destination for the covering set of non-duplicated software modules in accordance with the defined supervisory process control and manufacturing information application configuration; determining, for each individual software module of the covering set of non-duplicated software modules, whether the individual software module is already present at the remote computer; and transmitting to the remote computer, via the central software deployment server, in accordance with results of the determining step, each individual software module that is not present at the remote computer wherein the supervisory process control and manufacturing information application comprises hierarchically arranged objects exhibiting hosted/hosting runtime relationships and wherein the deploying a configuration step comprises building at least a portion of the supervisory process control and manufacturing information application on the remote computer according to the hierarchical object relationships.