Patent ID: 7860857

Claim:
A digital data processing system comprising, A. a web crawler search engine for indexing any of (i) plant automation data, and (ii) real-time automation data, in an enterprise, B. a web browser for execution on a first digital data processor and in communications coupling with (i) the web crawler search engine, and (ii) a public network, C. the web browser permitting a user to any of search and view (i) pages on the public network concurrently with (ii) any of said plant automation data and real-time automation data, by responding to a user query by generating and displaying (i) one or more interface regions comprising links to web pages from the public network, and (ii) one or more interface regions comprising any of (a) links to and (b) displays of any of said plant automation data and said real-time automation data indexed by the web crawler search engine.