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Method and apparatus for event-tagging data files automatically correlated with a time of occurence in a computer system

  • US 5,799,315 A
  • Filed: 07/07/1995
  • Issued: 08/25/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for event-tagging data entered into a first data file stored in a memory of a computer system that includes a processor coupled to the memory, the method carried out by program instructions executed on said processor and including the steps of:

  • (1) receiving a plurality of new data entries;

    (2) determining whether each new data entry constitutes a predefined type of event, and if so then storing in the memory, correlated with each new data entry, an event tag identifying that new data entry as a data segment, where the predefined event is automatically generated by the computer system substantially at the time of the new data entry and includes at least a spatial region and a temporal event such that the spatial region is correlated with a time of occurrence of the new data entry; and

    (3) outputting the data entries on a segment-by-segment basis;

    wherein the data segment constitutes one of a plurality of data segments of a predetermined type stored sequentially in time.

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