Patent ID: 7383315

Claim:
A method of logging and trending real time measurement data, the method comprising: a logger application executing on a first computer system receiving a measurement stream comprising a plurality of real time measurement data values, wherein the plurality of real time measurement data values are acquired from a physical system by a measurement device; the logger application writing portions of the plurality of real time measurement data values to respective shared memory sections of a memory in the first computer system in a modular fashion; wherein each of the portions of the plurality of real time measurement data values in each of the respective shared memory sections is independently accessible by a trender application executing in a second computer system; initiating the trender application on the second computer system; the trender application generating a query request for a first portion of the plurality of real time measurement data values; the first computer system sending a single message to the second computer system, wherein the single message comprises the first portion of the plurality of real time measurement data values, wherein the first portion comprises two or more of the real time measurement data values; the trender application receiving the single message comprising the first portion of the plurality of real time measurement data values; the trender application displaying the first portion of the plurality of real time measurement data values.