System and method for transmitting analyzed data on a network
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring instrument data collected by an instrument comprising:
- at least one laboratory workstation coupled to the instrument, and acquiring and analyzing instrument data;
at least one viewer workstation coupled to a network; and
at least one supervisor workstation coupled to the laboratory workstation and coupled to the viewer workstation through the network, the supervisor workstation acquiring the analyzed instrument data and selectively providing the analyzed instrument data to the viewer workstation.
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Abstract
An instrumentation network data system that transmits periodically measured instrument parameters or data to workstations residing on a computer network. A laboratory workstation residing on the network periodically collects and processes data from the instruments at predetermined collection time-intervals. The laboratory workstation includes a buffering data file to store the analyzed data. A supervisor workstation residing on the network periodically accesses the analyzed data from the buffering data file at predetermined supervision-time intervals and updates a supervision data file in the supervisor working station with the analyzed data. At predetermined viewing-time intervals, the supervisor working station can transmit the analyzed data to at least one viewing workstation residing on the network for remote viewing of the analyzed data.
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35 Claims
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1. A system for monitoring instrument data collected by an instrument comprising:
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at least one laboratory workstation coupled to the instrument, and acquiring and analyzing instrument data;
at least one viewer workstation coupled to a network; and
at least one supervisor workstation coupled to the laboratory workstation and coupled to the viewer workstation through the network, the supervisor workstation acquiring the analyzed instrument data and selectively providing the analyzed instrument data to the viewer workstation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of distributing instrument data to viewer workstations on a network, comprising:
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acquiring instrument data at a laboratory workstation from an instrument;
analyzing the acquired data;
acquiring the analyzed data at a supervisor workstation;
displaying the analyzed data at the supervisor workstation; and
selectively transmitting the analyzed data to at least one viewer workstation. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A system for monitoring instrument data collected by an instrument comprising:
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at least one laboratory workstation coupled to the instrument, and acquiring and analyzing instrument data;
at least one supervisor workstation coupled to the laboratory workstation via a first network, the supervisor workstation acquiring the analyzed instrument data, the first network using first network protocols; and
at least one viewer workstation coupled to the supervisor workstation through a network, the viewer workstation automatically gaining access to the analyzed instrument data at the supervisor workstation over a second network using second network protocols. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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