Patent Document ID: 4215406
Application ID: 05281472

Base Claim:
1. A system comprising: apparatus for implementing system operations; a digital computer system; means for conveying signals between said apparatus and said computer system; means for establishing a signal monitoring system within said computer system, with names assigned to signal variables; means for accepting job definitions written out in the language of a systems engineer and referring to signal variables by name, and for converting said job definitions into machine executable job definitions within said computer system; means for accepting conventional computer programs and for establishing them as executable job definitions within the computer system; means for accepting job definition identifiers and for initiating execution of the corresponding job definitions, said means maintaining a record of the location and type of each job definition; and means whereby any job definition and also said monitoring system may supply the identifier of any other job definition to said means for accepting and initiating.

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Claim 5:
5. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein means are provided for removing from the system any job definition or monitoring function definition, and wherein means are provided for adding into the system new job definitions and monitoring function definitions.