Patent ID: 8670942

Claim:
A method of remotely monitoring a flow cytometer comprising: a) operating a flow cytometer in a manner which produces a signal that varies based upon change in occurrence in at least one particle characteristic in a plurality of analyzed particles; b) executing instructions stored in a memory element of a first computer that convert said signal into a viewable data representation of change in occurrence of said at least one particle characteristic in said plurality of analyzed particles; c) generating with an image representation generator in said first computer a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation of change in occurrence of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles and serving said plurality of time bound data representation files to a second computer in serial order without generating an amount of lag; d) generating a first plurality of reduced byte data representation files through the execution of instructions stored in a memory element of the second computer, the first plurality of reduced byte data representation files corresponding to the served plurality of time bound data representation files; e) generating a second plurality of reduced byte data representation files each one having fewer bytes than the corresponding one of said first plurality of reduced byte data representation files through the execution of instructions stored in a memory element of the second computer; f) serving with said second computer a requested portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files to a third computer; and g) displaying each one of said portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files in serial order with said third computer to provide a viewable reduced byte data representation of change in occurrence of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles.