A networked system having a wide variety of applications and particularly applicable to facilities management systems has multiple levels of software in processing nodes. The levels include a "features" processing level which communicates requests for data to a software object level containing databases...http://www.google.de/patents/US5598566?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5598566 - Networked facilities management system having a node configured with distributed load management software to manipulate loads controlled by other nodes
