Patent ID: 7571064

Claim:
A method for visualizing a signal having a particular duration, wherein the entire signal, over said particular duration, is represented by digital signal data, the method comprising: (a) reading an initial portion of digital signal data, wherein said initial portion (i) is a subset of the digital signal data, (ii) contains non-contiguous samples from said digital signal data, and (iii) represents the signal over the entirety of the particular duration; (b) displaying a visualization of the signal, over the entirety of the particular duration, on a particular screen based upon said initial portion, wherein the visualization is a plot of the signal over the entirety of the particular duration, thereby providing immediate feedback and information about the signal for the entirety of the duration; (c) reading a next portion of digital signal data, wherein said next portion is a subset of said digital signal data and contains non-contiguous samples from said digital signal data, wherein the samples included in said next portion are different than the samples in any previously-read portion of the digital signal data; (d) updating the visualization of the signal, over the entirety of the particular duration, on said particular screen based upon all portions of the signal that have been read from the digital signal data; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) until the visualization reflects all of said digital signal data.