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Method and system for collecting and retrieving time-series, real-time and non-real-time data

  • US 6,651,030 B2
  • Filed: 06/21/2002
  • Issued: 11/18/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an environment with a real-time data source and with a non-real-time data source, a method for storing, in a time-coordinated fashion, data received from the real-time and non-real-time data sources, the method comprising:

  • receiving real-time data from the real-time data source;

    storing the real-time data as entries in a real-time, streaming data file, the entries time-stamped with times associated with when the real-time data were produced;

    receiving non-real-time data from the non-real-time data source;

    storing the non-real-time data as entries in a non-real-time data file, the entries time-stamped with times of relevance of the non-real-time data; and

    writing a header file that associates a time interval with those entries in the real-time and non-real-time data files whose time stamps fall within the time interval.

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