Patent ID: 7054922

Claim:
A method of enabling remote monitoring of a Foundation Fieldbus standard compliant digital local process network by a remote user of a remote host node in a network environment including a plurality of process devices and a local host node residing on the digital local process network, the remote host node being connectable to the local host node via a wide area network, the method comprising the steps of: invoking execution of a browser on the remote host node; loading a web page via the browser, the web page containing an applet identifier; executing on the remote host node an applet corresponding to the applet identifier, wherein the applet is adapted when executed to establish communication between the remote host node and the local host node via the wide area network; transmitting at least one signal from the remote host node to the local host node, wherein the at least one signal is constructed to cause the local host node to invoke execution of a servlet on the local host node, and further to cause the servlet to receive process data via a Foundation Fieldbus communication stack Fieldbus Messaging Specification layer from at least one of the plurality of process devices and to transmit the received process data to the remote host node via the wide area network and the applet; and conveying information representative of the process data to the remote user of the remote host node via the browser.