Patent ID: 7539935

Claim:
A method for transmission process values from stored program controls to a client computer, comprising: providing a plurality of stored program controls, wherein a system is controlled based upon the plurality of stored program controls, wherein at least one stored program control has a plurality of different addresses, for accessing the process values; retrieving a first document in a markup language from a server computer into a client computer the first document comprising first, second, and third fields for the process values and a pointer to a second document in a markup language in the server computer; retrieving the second document into the client computer via the pointer, with the second document having data for assigning the first field to a first address of a first stored program control, assigning the second field to a second address of the first stored program control, and assigning the third field to a first address of a second stored program control; assigning the first field to the first address of the first stored program control using the data in the second document; assigning the second field to the second address of the first stored program control using the data in the second document; assigning the third field to the first address of the second stored program control using the data in the second document; querying the process values from the addresses of the first stored program control and the second stored program control; transmitting the process values from the server computer to the client computer; and displaying the process values in the fields of the first document on the client computer.