Patent ID: 6975914

Claim:
In a method of process control, factory-floor control, environmental control, and/or computer aided manufacturing control collectively, “process control,” the improvement comprising: A. executing one or more control applications that interface with an operator and/or control equipment for said process control; B. transmitting to a queue oneor more messages for presentation to the operator and/or control equipment, the one or more messages being formatted in a markup language; C. with said control application, retrieving one or more of said messages from the queue and presenting to said operator and/or control equipment one or more corresponding prompts, D. responding to action by said operator and/or control equipment with respect to a said prompt by presenting content of the corresponding message to said operator and/or control equipment, the presenting step including applying the message along with a style sheet to an interface E. responding to action by said operator and/or control equipment with respect to the presented message by transmitting a response thereto, F. responding to successful transmittal of said response in step (E) by dequeuing the message to which the response corresponded, G. responding to any of cancellation or absence of successful submittal of said response by any of maintaining or requeuing the message to which the response corresponded.