Patent ID: 6993578

Claim:
A method for managing performance data about a network for graphical display, wherein the performance data is in the form of data values, wherein method uses a plurality of bins for maintaining a count of instances that data values are within a current range, wherein each bin maintains a number of instances that data values are within a particular portion of the current range, wherein each portion has an equal size, and wherein the method further uses an array for maintaining performance data values that are not within the current range, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a data value; determining whether the data value is within the current range; incrementing the number of a particular bin of the plurality of bins, if the data value is within the current range, wherein the particular bin is selected based on the data value; storing the data value in the array, if the data value is not within the current range; and scaling the current range and the size of the portions, if the data value is not within the current range.