Patent Document ID: 8046096
Application ID: 12782946
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of controlling a process, comprising: implementing a process control routine within a process control device by executing the process control routine on a processor of the process control device to implement on-line process control operations with respect to the process; implementing a server routine in the process control device, the server routine including a support algorithm, including executing the server routine on a processor of the process control device; using the process control routine to collect real-time process data; making one or more calls from the process control routine to the server routine; sending the collected process data to the server routine as part of one of the calls; running the support algorithm within the server routine on the collected process data associated with the process control routine to generate controller data in response to each of the one or more calls from the process control routine; and using the generated controller data in the process control routine to effect the manner in which the process control routine implements the on-line process control operations.