Patent ID: 8352645

Claim:
A method, comprising: a device receiving measurement data from a plurality of data sources, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of data sources are configured to perform measurements to generate at least a portion of the measurement data; the device transferring at least a portion of the measurement data to a memory medium of a host coupled to the device, wherein said transferring is performed without an initiation of the transfer by the host, and wherein said transferring comprises, for each of the plurality of data sources: determining a portion of the memory medium corresponding to the data source, wherein the portion of the memory medium is dedicated to the data source; determining a latest value for the data source from the measurement data; and storing the latest value for the data source in the portion of the memory medium, wherein said storing the latest value comprises overwriting a previous value of the data source when the previous value exists in the portion of the memory medium, wherein the stored data is used by the host to perform a real time application.