Patent ID: 8204960

Claim:
An electronic data exchange system configured for retrieving information used to carry out processes, the system comprising: a computer with a central arithmetic unit and a memory, and which is configured as a central processing unit within which at least one application executes the following steps: automatically determining a situation-specific information requirement for at least one of said processes, wherein the determined situation-specific information requirement includes situation-specific process and planning data or if situation-specific process and planning data are already available, the determined situation-specific information requirement includes supplementary process and planning data; automatically identifying a suitable service provider of the situation-specific information requirement, from a plurality of service providers integrated into the data exchange system; automatically integrating additional suitable service providers into the data exchange system, at random and dynamically; automatically retrieving situation-specific information for the situation-specific information requirement from the identified suitable service provider and any additional suitable service providers through communications between the application and the service providers is based on standardized Web techniques; automatically processing the retrieved situation-specific information to automatically carry out said at least one process, including dynamically checking existing situation-specific information for new, updated situation-specific information and automatically retrieving said new, updated situation-specific information where available; wherein said application is assigned to an apparatus selected from the group consisting of at least one mobile agricultural working machine, at least one piece of stationary equipment, or both, and the situation specific information controls agricultural processes; wherein the agricultural processes can be selected from the group consisting of an optimization of operational parameters of the agricultural working machine, a management of an implementation of the agricultural working machine, a management of complex processes sequences, an optimization of a use of auxiliary substances and combinations thereof.