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 4:
4. A system in accordance with claim 1 to which is added a logic initiator system which logic initiator system includes means for supplying job identifiers to said means for accepting and initiating in response to a change in the state of a logical variable.