Patent ID: 7574509

Claim:
A method of transmitting process control information to a portable communication device, comprising: associating a user-selectable resource link with the process control information; retrieving a rule indicative of persons to which the user-selectable resource link and the process control information should be communicated, wherein a plurality of persons are authorized to access information in a system associated with the process control information, and wherein the persons to which the user-selectable resource link and the process control information should be communicated is a portion of the plurality of persons authorized to access information in the system; selectively transmitting the process control information and the user-selectable resource link based on the rule to a portable communication device uniquely associated with one of the persons indicated by the rule; and transmitting second process control information to the portable communication device in response to receiving input indicative of a user selection of the user-selectable resource link, wherein the second process control information is associated with the process control information and is relatively more detailed than the process control information.