Patent ID: 7606843

Claim:
In a system including monitoring devices generating monitoring device data, an archive server processing the archival of monitoring device data and a client computer, a method of selectively archiving monitoring device data based on an archival profile, the method comprising: obtaining incoming monitoring device data, wherein the incoming monitoring device data is characterized by one or more archival attributes; obtaining an archival profile for selectively archiving the incoming monitoring device data; determining whether the archival profile is associated with one or more archival attributes of the incoming monitoring device data; if the archival profile is associated with one or more archival attributes: processing the incoming monitoring device data having one or more archival attributes that match the archived profile into a compressed format; and selectively storing the incoming monitoring device data in the compressed format on a storage medium; wherein the archival attribute from which the archival profile selectively stores incoming monitoring device data is one selected from the group of file type, monitoring device identifier, and monitoring device type that collected the incoming monitoring device data.