Patent ID: 8620873

Claim:
A method for supporting a safety-oriented system, the safety-oriented system including safety-critical software components and non-safety-critical software components, the method comprising: monitoring the safety-critical software components and non-safety-critical software components via at least one of the safety-critical software components; identifying a possibility of mutual influencing of a safety-critical software component being used in collaboration with a non-safety-critical software component; defining a set of technical measures for preventing the identified possibility of mutual influencing, the identifying and the defining being undertaken by a device designed for supporting the safety-oriented system, the defining of the set of technical measures including at least one of: determining a configuration measure in the safety-oriented system for preventing the identified possibility of mutual influencing; analyzing using software techniques of the safety-critical software components in respect of the identified possibility of mutual influencing; and determining an application for preventing the identified possibility of mutual influencing; and implementing a barrier to a negative influence from at least one of the nonsafety-critical software components to at least one of safety-critical software components resulting from an identified mutual influence while maintaining the collaborative use of the non-safety-critical software components by safety-critical software components.