US Patent 7197742 Software module for integration

The present invention relates to a software module, and, especially, relates to a software module for integration having severe restriction on the available memory amount and the real-time operation, and provides a software module for integration having increased inheritance in software. This is a software module for integration, integrated as a software module within a device to control the device. The software module has a public module for updating a public data value, an intermediate module for converting the data value in a predetermined data format updated in the public module into a data value in a predetermined data format adaptable to a referencing side, and a referencing module for referencing the data value in a predetermined data format converted by the intermediate module. The publication and referencing process can be implemented among the modules.