Patent ID: 8882664

Claim:
A computer implemented method carried out by a computer executing instructions stored on a computer readable medium, the instructions comprising: obtaining, with the computer, a first data regarding patient symptoms for a non-human species, the first data comprising reported symptom incidences for the non-human specifies from a plurality of locations and stored on the computer; generating and storing a total value of symptom incidences for a select time period for each of the plurality of locations based on the stored first data with the computer; generating and storing a transform value for each of the plurality of locations by performing a power transform on the total value for each of the plurality of locations with the computer; generating with the computer, for each site of the plurality of locations a glyph having a visual characteristic that is dependent upon the stored transform value for the site; generating at least one CUSUM value with the computer, based on the stored first data; generating computer display information based on the at least one CUSUM value within the computer; and displaying the generated information on a display device in communication with the computer.