Patent 7801963 was granted and assigned to Bosch (company) on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for monitoring distributed software, as well as a computer program and a computer program product. In the method, the software, distributed to a number of computer units, is executed. One of the computer units is assigned a master module and the other computer units are assigned a slave module each. Monitoring is performed via communication in master-slave operation between the master module and the slave modules.